Tom, Day I don't really know..... Hello from Kazan! We're here just before the ural mountains, and have been here for two nights already. Actually we only just made it here by the skin of our teeth, before getting the train from Nizhny Novgorod Chloe stopped into a supermarket to get some water... 20 min later she came out after "having a bit of a look around" and we went into the station, couldn't find the platform and were litterally running from pla...

Chloe Day : I'm not really sure anymore. The long awaited blog entry...... let's hope the computer doesn't crash again! So I think now we're about 3 countries behind so I won't fill you in with all the boring details but I will try and start from the beginning..! So Turku (Finland) - we arrived after what must have been the longest/slowest ferry journey in history! it took like 12hours, but we (I say we, I mean I) just slept for most of the way on a sofa i...

We made it to St.petes!! YAY!! Will write back later.....

Tom, Day 14: Hello! We're alive and well so not to worry. Unfortunately I just wrote out a massive update and it got deleted! Raraaargh! So when I get chance I'll rewrite it, but for now, we're fine and well and still having a great time... But we have to go pack because tomorrow we're going to............. Tallin! (Long story, but we worked out it's cheaper to get to Russia through Estonia than direct from Helsinki!) So anyway, Helsinki is cool (I'm a bit worr...

Have now made it to Turku! Ferry was SO long, it tool like 12hours altogether! Crazy... Turku's v.nice and so are our hosts - Caline a russian in finland, and her lovely little boy Gael. Think Tom might have sunstroke so will write back later when I have more time! Oh and we managed to sort stockholm out in the end when a very friendly couchsurfer agreed to take us in. Tom has also not broken anything since last mentionned which is also good. Lots of love!