Wooo my first post! Hello everyone. Happy Mothers Day!!!
Okay so I should probably update: We are now in St. Petersburg in the Nevski Prospekt. This place is amazing though rather cold, even with the sun shining. We got here last night around half 11 (local time) after spending the whole of yesterday and the night before that on the coach. There were times when we literally didn't know what country we were even in! The journey itself went well, aided by the fact the bit of help from a couple of people on the coaches who spoke English, and that we are experts in the 'Ways of Winging It'. Our day in Warsaw on Friday was nice. We spent most of it drinking tea in a cafe and doing the crosswords/number games in the Telegraph! We spent all our money on some weird food and lots of Milka since we weren't going to be using Zloty after that day and we took about 50 pounds worth of Zloty each.
We did break one of the first cardinal rules of travelling on Friday morning though. Once we got to the airport in Warsaw and sorted out our bags (which are bloody heavy) we grabbed a taxi to the 'Old Town' of Warsaw. In doing so, however, we got into an unmarked taxi. Fortunetly he didn't stab us or steal our things, and it worked out a bit cheaper! Warsaw Old Town was very nice. When you go through Warsaw it's very grey and dull, but the Old Town is much colourful and the Palace looked amazing! It was weird to see the bullet holes in the walls left over from wars.
The hostel we are staying in does the job. It's cheap and the people are nice. The breakfast is the same as most of Europe - bread, ham, cheese, etc - so we're going to try something a bit more adventurous this evening. On Monday we're meeting the tour group for the Trans-Mongolian Railway, so I am in St. Petersburg for a few more days until I head off to Moscow.
Have a great day Mum, thanks again for everything. Hope everyone is well and I'll post again soon!!
4 comments:
Hi Ian, great to hear your update and thank you for my mothers day card and presents. It's sounds as though you are already having a great time, you should have snow in Moscow when you arrive there, so wrap up warm my little soldier and look after each other, Love Mum
Glad to hear you are having a good time but whats with the Telegraph ey, that's something I could do here you nutter. So I am thinking there is more to the taxi story than u are letting on or why mention it....lol.
grace has kind of listend to your blog, but was spinning round in the computor chair at the same time so god only knows how much she took in.
Today (mothers day) we are going to Coombes farm to watch the lambing its really hot and me Dave and grace have already been for a bike ride to the park. The back way so Dave got to see the sights of Storrington lol not as exiting as the sights you are going to see.
Then me and Jax are cooking for mum (debbie and Brian) might enlist the help of Dave as neither of us know much more than you use potatoes and cream to make Daphenoir potatoes. I am sure it will turn out just fine.
oh well really nice to hear from you and cool of you to contact mum on mothers day you know she is missing you.
Tons of love to you and i might just take up that cat food factory job.
loads of love
kerry and Grave
Hi Ian, great to hear that your of a life time has started well, and you have already seen so many countries even if you didnt know which was which as you passed through. We are looking forward to following your tracks, take care of yourself and each other.
Love from Mandy Jam and John
Hi Ian and Pals
We enjoy so much reading and following your travels,the pics are awesome. We are all fine and had a nice Easter although it was kind quiet, unlike yours. It was nice to binge out on chocolate as I hadnt had any for some time as I give it up for lent, so believe me I ate enough for you as well! Jam and I went to Mallorca for four days and it rained the whole time, the only consolation is that it only cost 10 pounds return each.
Jonh has go off camping this weekend with his mates at Kingbury water park i dont think it will be anywhere near as exciting as your weekend, the only similarity will be that plenty of drinking will take place!
We have a group of students over from China with us at school, they arrived on Thurs and are here until the 2nd May. From what you have said about food and the pics, I think they may find our food pretty boring, I am also very concerned about how they will find the Wing Wah buffet eat all you can for a fiver, top quality I should think!!!!!!!!!!
Well I will close now, if youve got this far well done, sorry my
blog is so dull and boring unlike yours, which may be long but exciting,interesting and leave us full of envy. Take care. Carry on havin a ball.
Love from us all. xxxxxx Mandy Jam and John
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