Hello All, Just a quickkie before we leave St Petersberg in a few hours time! We are just en-route to the train station for an over-night ride to Moscow, and we've just had to carry out backpacks for the first time, it's a killer, plenty of vodka needed to dull the pain. We've had a really great week, the highlight being watching Swan Lake, even though it left me with a strange inferior feeling! Had some really good food here too, Deb tried Elk last night...

Privyet! Finally we get round to updating our site...its been a chilled couple of days mainly because it is soooo baking hot we can't move. On the first night we popped out to get some dinner and after enjoying a traditional Russian feast of Japanese rice and noodles, we ended up rocking in at 1.30am and the sun was still out!! Lucky Tim packed his sleeping eye mask! We have already done some cultural sightseeing and lots and lots of walking. Visited the fam...