January 4 - 7 Waking up after no sleep again, the nerves had set in a little bit more. Jamie and Emma made us breakfast of bacon and eggy bread and took us to the station it was a sad farewell. as they were the last of our friends to say goodbye to. We gave them both a big hug, our front back packs getting in the way and we set off on our way. We caught a plane from Gatwick to St Petersburg with a stop over in Leningrad for a few hours. When we landed it was s...

The day finally came to go on our travels. I honestly felt like the day was never going to come. We had been talking about it for so long, but it just felt like a conversation piece. Now we were actually going, we were so scared, but really excited too. I got a wake up call from my mum at 7am and I peeled myself out of bed and threw some clothes on. I hadn't been out of bed that early for an awful long time! Outside everything looked so quiet and eery, I co...