Monday 13th September

Hi All,
Well, we left wet London on Monday 13th September, 2 planes later and we arrived in St Petersburg. Some rough looking man picked us up in his beaten up car, to take us to our home stay. What a shock we were sleeping in someones dinning room, classy! The entrance looked like something out of a crime scene . What have we let ourselves in for, we left our luggage and quickly ran to the pub for beer, 1 very large one later & felt much better( probaly a bit tipsy) so went back for bed.

Tuesday 14th september (Weather Sunny)
The sun was shinning and Sergei our tour guide for the morning arrived( in his car).We embarked on a 3 hour tour of St Petersburg, Sergei talked for the whole 3 hours, lots of battleships and palaces. nice place though good food and lots of beer.
Tyler wanted to eat in "The IDIOT" restaurant very funny, had to explain it may have meant 'good food' in Russian

Wednesday 15th September (Weather sunny)
Happy anniversary to us 6 years!
Breakfast was tea and pancakes the same as yesterday and probaly the same as tomorrow. On reflection of my shock last night we soon relise that the russian way is if its not broken, it's ok, hence lots of rusty cars. We are way too materialistic in the UK.
We take ourselves off on our first adventure THE METRO, mission completed we made it to the other end. very cheap, we think you pay once for a journey no matter how long. Once off the train we walk around none of the signs make any sense to me anyway. I asked for directions in Pauline's langage, people seem to understand, that pointing to a map works and is universal. The museums out here are massive but everything is entirely in russian so we have absolutely no idea what we are looking at.
Tonight as it is our anivaersary we booked in to see a Russian folk show that had champagne, canopes and caviar. We all try the caviar thank god no-one really likes it, champange was good though. The show was brillant, fantastic singers and dancing, Tyler was impressed by the amout of knickers on show, Darren got dragged up on stage to dance with some girls, Tyler was really jealous as he wanted to be kissed with the lipstick girls too. Following this we were sat on by a dancing eskimo, we all really enjoyed the show and we will try to uploads some pictures soon.
Waited for ages for our tram home 30 mins, it still did not come along so I pointed to my trusted map at the conductor, and a nod of the head we were finally on our way home quick beer stop then back too sleep.

Thursday 16th September (Weater Sunny)
Last day in St Petersburg, we planned to have a great walk around, but 1 phone call fron Sergei and its painic stations" you must be at the station by 12.30 someone will meet you with the tickets get a taxi it will be quicker, the contact will meet you at the statue" well has Darren joined the MI6? we rush to the station, pick up tickets and are on our way to Moscow, train is very nice and i am really missing coffee. Finally have access to wifi on the train, so we can update this blog!

Pauline