After getting back to our hotel at 3am in the morning after the canal and drawbridges trip, we well and truly missed breakfast. Waking at 11.45am im now feeling the effects of the flu. It was pretty cold out on an open aired boat at that time of the morning, even though we had rugs to cuddle up in, the air was crisp, coupled with the walk back to our hotel. However, it was worth every minute of it, even though we did question our sanity as we were w...

After getting back to our hotel at 3am in the morning after the canal and drawbridges trip, we well and truly missed breakfast. Waking at 11.45am im now feeling the effects of the flu. It was pretty cold out on an open aired boat at that time of the morning, even though we had rugs to cuddle up in, the air was crisp, coupled with the walk back to our hotel. However, it was worth every minute of it, even though we did question our sanity as we were w...

Catching a train from Helsinki to St Petersburg was a lot easier than we had visioned. We literally jumped on 20 minutes before the departure time and we were off at 217 kms an hour to Russia. Customs was completed on the train and we crossed over the border an hour into our trip. Basically the train slowed down, we saw lots of razor wired fencing and we were here. We were met at the train station and taken to our hotel Easy.! We were doing a Tour of S...