Petersburg in 14 hours (It only took 16 hours of travel!)

Myself, Rory and Ramona made a snap decision to go to Petersburg for the day on Wednesday evening, arriving back in Moscow on Friday morning, leaving us 14 hours in Petersburg and 16 hours on the train. Good idea?

We decided to go second class there, because the beds are more comfortable and we thought we would get a better sleep. The snory man in the top bunk had other ideas, if I knew him I would have thrown everything that wasn't nailed down at him.



THE SNORING MAN!!!! He even managed to snore when he was sleeping on his side, I think he was in training for the snoring olympics. He slept very well on wednesday night, we didn't


Rory wanted to show the world how much he was enjoying his blini with ham and cheese. The world really didn't need to know.


We saw the army and navy band rehearsing for hours in palace square for some holiday celebrations, there were some quite impressive choreographical moves. We were pretty safe in the knowledge that they weren't going to ask us for our passports, they were too busy with their step...pivot...pivot...step... step. I liked the dude standing on the little platform, it was carpeted and everything!


Sean (our man in Petersburg) ordered a cup of green tea, which turned out to be a never-ending pot of green tea. It had quite comical consequences, he was buzzing for the next three hours or so and kept having to make toilet stops. Quote of the day 'tea is not supposed to make you feel like this!' He was last seen wandering off with a purposeful look on his face muttering something like 'just one more cup.....'


Answers on a postcard please to explain why a garden needs to 'dry.'

These dogs really really liked each other, I was quite jealous of their new spring coats.


Rory got dog poo on his shoes, he was disgusted, wouldn't let me take a picture so I had to take a covert snap. We blame the dogs in the natty coats.


Ramona ended up buying a load of pictures from this man, who was like forty coats on speed, if you don't know who forty coats is then disregard the last remark.


Rory is trying manfully to keep his eyes open on the train home.

Look how chirpy they were before we headed off!