Thursday, 03 July 2008 02:00 Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2009 11:26
Rushing to the train station in St Petersburg was very close and we almost didn't make the train. Thanks again to Vladimir and his brother for all the help. Without them it would have been a disaster. Having the bike boxes on the train was a nightmare because Claudine and I ended up having to share a bed which even for me alone is too small.
When we arrived at the station in Moscow after a sleepless night, Maria, our host was waiting for us and when the train arrived she got us on our cart. Lucky for us she was there because she helped us carry the bike boxes to the stations exit. Those boxes where a pain to carry around. When we reached the exit of the train station the reality of trying to get these boxes to Maria's house started to set in. Taking these boxes on the subway just wasn’t going to happen. And finding a taxi to put all these boxes into was going to be hard. Not just that the cost of taking a taxi would have been enormous.
Luckily Maria made a plan and contacted her ex boyfriend which happened to be a good friend of Vladimir in St Petersburg. They both are actually Maria was the one that introduced us to Vladimir in the first place. He came with his car and somehow managed to fit all three bike boxes into it. What an awesome guy he turned out to be, very friendly and interesting. We then went to his house instead of Maria’s. Once there we met up with some polish travelers who were also going to stay over. We then went around sightseeing Moscow with the one polish guy being kind of a guide since he knew so much about Moscow.
After all the sightseeing we returned to Maria’s ex boyfriends house (I’m not good with name at all) and had a party. There were quite a few people and the beer and vodka went quickly. We all got pretty drunk and had a great time. The next morning we woke up with the usual party hangover and just lay around until it was time to go to the airport. Maria’s ex said he would take us to the train station from where we could take a train to the airport. Lucky for us on the way he decided the traffic wasn’t too bad and that he would take us all the way to the airport with his car. We were so relieved that we didn’t have to struggle with the boxes again.
And that was the end of it.
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