Russia 20th June - 21st June

Saint petersburg in Russia was absoutly fantastic 5 of the funniest days of my life!

Sunday

It started off with me getting on the bus at 5.30am on Sunday morning, going into Helsinki and then catching a train at 7.30am to Saint Petersburg! he trip there went fine. My train station was in the Lenin area of town! Managed to get completly lost on my way to the hostel and it took me two hours. GRRR

When I got to the epic Soul Kitchen Hostel I found out Rachel was not there yet :( I ended up reading for a lil then went on a short walk to find a supermarket.

Got back from that then was in the kitchen and started talking to M. Within a few minuetes she invited me to go out for a walk with her and her brothers after she realised I was all by myself. Saint Petersburg just looks amazing it is not very high tech. I ended up buying a bottle of vodka when i was with them and did not even get checked for ID! Even though it was 40% stuff.

We went back to the hostel as we had a game of Mafia to play, but just as we were about to play Rachel showed up!!! with D and her bf.

So went back to D's place and picked up her stuff. Came back to the hostel around midnight and the game of mafia was over :( I was tired so I ended up going to bed.

Monday

We woke up at 8am and bummed around as we got given a buffet breakfast at 9am. The hostel has the YUMMIEST jam!!!!

We then went and got registered (well I did Rach forgot one form) so we had to go back later on - where the was more people from our hostel there. We then went and had lunch. we ordered by pointing at the signs and such. was real good food!!!

went back and got advice from one of the staff of where we should go. so we attempted to go to St Issaccs Cathedral. What should of been a nice simple hour walk ended up in us walking for 2 hours and then we found out we went to St Nicholas's cathedral instead!

We asked direcrions the whole way back! well till we saw the monument which was our guide! That night we played scrabble with to other people staying there - one who ended up spending a lot of time with through out our stay!