Day 108 - Monday 19 August - St Petersburg to Helsinki

Monday 19 August

We had plenty of time for our 11:30 train, but that was just as well because we went to the wrong place and got in the wrong queue, again. It was a nice trip, though going backwards means very few photos to chose from. The border guards did most of their work as we moved, which saved a lot of time. We missed getting a photo of the actual border, but there was a graded road and wire and sensors.

 Our building, with our window 2nd floor, on the right of the bulge.

 Goodbye, dreary apartments.

 What looks like a prison: barbed wire and guard boxes.

 Vyborg, last Russian city.

Lots of timber on both sides of the border.

 Agriculture in Finland

Rocks and pine forests.

We got to Helsinki at about 15:00, and did the usual things: let ourselves in to our new home, found the supermarket and our tickets for the next couple of days, did some washing, and I started the re-packing.