 Day 18.
Monday 19th July. St Petersburg to Tallin.
Up early, a light breakfast and out on the
road to the Bus Station. Quite a walk but a lovely
morning. Monday morning and plenty of people and traffic
about. I got to ABTObYCHBIN BOK3AN in plenty of time and
waited on the bus by watching the people arriving and departing
on their various journeys. The bus left promptly at 10.30 with
very few people on board and I wondered what all the fuss was
about as regards seats. It was when we stopped at another
station and the bus fulled up I was glad I had bought my ticket
earlier. We had a long hot day on the road, stopping at
different places to let people off and collect even more.
We must have spent an hour at the border between the Russian and
Estonian posts and of course the duty free. Then on our
way again through all the road works on the Estonian side.
Lots of fresh tar about, bikers beware. Arrived in
Tallinn about 6pm and immediately went for something to eat
before getting a taxi to my hotel. As you can see from the
pictures Sylvia was very safe and Ivar my new policeman friend
looked in on her from time to time. A quick shower and I
got to work downloading pictures and writing up reports.
Ivar called for a drink and chat later in the evening. I
think tomorrow I will hit the road and steer clear of big cities
and heavy traffic.
Day 18 pictures
here.
Day 17 report here.
Day 19 report
here.
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 © 2004 Alex Bradley
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