The Trans-Siberian/Mongolian railway (sorry about the length, I had sometime to kill!) 1st night The last day in Moscow was spent seeing the final sights, generally relaxing as our train was at midnight again and getting a few supplies for the trip (cheap vodka was high on the list to break the ice with our fellow room mates). We left the hostel around 9 and walked 40mins to the station where we found a cafe and waited to anticipation for the 4 day journey. We ...

Despite having a bit of a hostile and dangerous reputation, Russia is very welcoming, the local police despite speaking no English try their hardest to help two helplessly lost tourists. The Russian girls are stunningly pretty while the men are stereotypically surly and best not to be pissed off. We have decided not to drink to much while in Russia for this reason. The first night in St. Petersburg was spent chilling. This was the first hostel we had to make ou...

The coach trip to Tallinn was ace, apart from it was a single lane road all the way and the coach driver was making some dodgy overtakes. By the time we got there it was dark so decided to get a taxi. He dropped us off near the hostel. It took us a while to find because like Latvia it was on the 3rd floor and not easy to find. As it turned out the hostel was above a strip club. After some discussion James and I decided this wasn't a bad thing. The students we me...

The morning of the start of travelling was, thankfully, uneventful after a crazy night of packing (thanks to Craig, Lucy, Rach and mum for helping with that!). The flight however was more eventful. We tried to blag our way onto priority boarding. They didn't ask anyone else apart from James and I for priority tickets, which we didn't have. Oops. A few minuets into the flight, the women behind me fell unconscious. The flight attendant asked if there was a doct...