We spent yesterday just chillin, we found a beach on the river side and just spent the day sunbathing, we got all our washing done at the hostel, and just generally got ready for our train journey. Got up around 10 and told Steve he needed to be ready by 11.30 factoring in at least a half hour buffer for his grooming rituals, but for the first time he was ready on time, only a week in and we are already getting better. We went to the shop next to the hostel and ...

After we had finished our meal at zoomI had a new spurt of energy and although it was about 6pm and we had been walking all day, the sun was lovely and the city was buzzing, I just couldn't get enough, we wandered the main road Nevsky Prospekt which was as wide as the m25, lined with shops and restaurants and closed to traffic today, which meant people could just sit in the road and they did, the road was full of entertainers, rock guitarists, singers, and weird ...

Woke up about 10, it wasn't a bad sleep really, you kind of drift in and out along with the movement of the train, i went to the toilet to freshen up but it was jank, so i just brushed my teeth and doused myself in deodorant. Stepping off the train in St Petersburg the air was so much fresher, I hate to say it, but it was nice to get away from the heat, we caught the metro to our hostel, which was for once easy to find, it even had a small sign outside, the luxur...

Got up at 9am and left to catch a free tour, walking to the tour, I saw St Petes in a new light after a good nights sleep, it seemed like a world away from Moscow, all the people and signs telling you what not to do had disappeared, I was panicking that without someone telling everyone where they could and couldn't walk we might all just start running around in circles like headless chickens bumping in to each other, a sort of survival of the fittest, or surviva...

It was about 1.30am when we went down to the platforms, we queued to get some supplies from this little man through a whole in the wall, on the wall there were empty wrappers of all the products you could ask for, or point at in our case, then he passes them out and tots it up on a calculator, it was slim pickings and nearly double the price it should be, we ended up with a twix and bottle of water each. We managed to find our train reasonably easy, it was old an...