Day 104 - Thursday 15 August - Tallinn to St Petersburg

Thursday 15 August

The bus left at 8:00, so it was an early start and a taxi ride. And then nothing happened until 10:45, when we got to Narva and the border crossing. Except I saw a stag, just standing at the edge of the forest by the road, watching the passing traffic, and not caring about anyone. (and no photo to prove it by).

 Goodbye Tallinn

 Possibly the last windmill we'll see this trip.

 I don't know if this was a windmill or some other agricultural building.

 Wind turbine art.  Possibly coming down.

 In the cities were lots of apartments, .but in the country there had been nice houses.

The Estonia/Russia border.

The fort on the Russian side of the river.

So the Estonian part took an hour, because it's the end of Europe, and they have to do all those formalities. Then we went across the river to do the Russian bit. All the bags had to come off the bus, but they didn't look at any. Then we got on again, and kept going.

Nice houses in the country, big impersonal apartment blocks in the towns and cities.

We reached St P rail station, and people got off, and we started to but were told it wasn't the end. So we went on to the Coach station, but it was further, and had fewer facilities, and the taxi driver wouldn't give me change so we was robbed by capitalism. Our hotel is in a dump of a building, again, but it is all renovated and very nice, but a bit squashed.