We got up stupidly early and walked to the train station, we got there as the train was pulling into the station. When we boarded the train we would hear a lot of noise. Our carriage was full of Europeans who's body clocks were still in Moscow time so that explained why they were all up at 5am. We found our cabin and it was full of people drinking. We thought 'great' we're in for a bad 30 hours. We soon came to realise that everyone was super friendly. They e...

Getting of the train was a nice feeling. Although the cold did hit us as it was -14, it was still dark at 9am. We had a bit of a discussion which way the hostel was. It took us a while to find as James got us lost... again. He has since been demoted furthermore to my personal luggage carrier. We had a shower, the best shower ever since we'd been 4 days without, had a nap and went to explore the city. The city wasn't what I was expecting, I expected a run-d...

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...