Hi All,
Well this is just a short note to get this thing up and running, myslef and Sarah will try to keep it up to date on our travels. We're in a hostel in St Petersburg, having arrived this morning on the night train from Moscow. The train journey was very comfortable, carriages really ornate. Fairly hot in ours in the station in Moscow until we got moving - its going to be an oven across Siberia at this time of the year but sure we'll deal with it! Had a few screwdrivers en route to take the edge off, and salmon caviar to boot - pretty tasty!
Moscow was a great laugh. We weren't sure what to expect of the place having heard a few scare stories. In fact we had more hassle from drunken Latvians in Dublin airport on Sunday night than we've had anywhere else - the Moscovites we came across were very friendly and willing to help us find where we needed to go. One lady even wanted to come with us and walk us through the metro system. A lot of it has to do with practising their English. We met George, a Freddy Mercury lookalike from St Petersburg who is a resident in Napoleon hostel and an English teacher. He invited us to partake in an 'English Club' he has set up as part of his contract work with big multinationals in Moscow, which we did on Wednesday night. Had a great chat over a few beers with his students , who ranged from two young engineers who work for Samsung to a middle aged woman from central Siberia who had great English already and described herself as an executive political advisor to 'the party'. Savage craic!
Good bunch in the hostel. Spanish couple making a documentary about the Gulags, a mad Argentinian who we called 'call me Al' coz he's the image of Al Pacino circa 'Scarface' -- ''say cchello to mai liddle frend'' Brilliant.
Thats only the half of it but sure if I spent all day writing it down I've no time to actually go out and do it.
Nostrovia!
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Fairly hot in your carraige eh???? Dirty birds! Glad to hear that all is going well. Hope to read many more adventures over the coming weeks and months.
Nostrovia to you too
haah you better believe it!
"In Vietnam, during the past years, together with economic development there are also entailed lots of problems as consequents. Among which road accidents compared as a war disaster...Ho Chi Minh City ranks 16 among the 64 cities"...There's a job for a Road Safety officer going with a Belgian NGO, I think I might apply, that traffic has scared me for life n I could teach the Vietnamese a thing or two about traffic lights!!!
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