Early this morning we were woken up by the most tremendous thunderstorm I ever heard in my life. The whole building shook with the thunder and the lightening was so bright and frequent. I was rather scared as the storm was right above and it was so loud. When we woke up again (Rob woke me up) it was rather bright so Rob got up and checked the time. It was just before nine and we had planned to sleep in till eleven. We got up leisurely and had a mixed breakfast of bread, cheese, yoghurt and fruit. We then slapped [View Full Entry]

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Well we started this morning rather tired still from the night before. We hastily got dressed and left for nine. Eero drove us to the port and rather kindly helped us through checkout. The boat that took us was a catamaran and it was a pretty quick crossing, just under two hours. There was a proper passport control and our passports were scrutinised rather well. Leaving the port in Helsinki was rather fabulous. You walk alongside the water towards some of the most impressive buildings. It was about this point that we decided that both sets of our parents would love [View Full Entry]

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Today we had no plans to do anything but we did have a well needed sleep in till eleven. We walked down to the local shop and bought some fruit, bread and juice. Eero came and joined us and we had a quick look around a Russian market before going home to eat breakfast. We then looked on the Internet for tickets to Helsinki and bought some for approximately twenty pounds for a return journey for the both of us. Rather cheap for a two hour journey. In the afternoon we went to the Tallinn open air museum and spent a [View Full Entry]

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Not quite the cosy hideout we had in mind. After trying to get some sleep for a hour and a half we gave up. Every single person in the airport wanted us awake. They had a noisy crane thing, people dropped things, wheeled rattling trolleys past us etc. So instead we decided on a film. We switched on the pda, plugged in the headphones and started the film. Slowly bit by bit more people began to impede on our hide out. Around half three we were made to move by an airport official wanting to open a gate. Seeing as though [View Full Entry]

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Our day started bright and early with a 9am wake up.I say wake up, but neither of us really slept thanks to a wonderfully comfortable sofa bed. After a mad dash to tesco to buy rob a sleeping bag and to nationwide to change pin numbers we returned home for a quick breakfast and then went on our way. We arrived at newcastle airport with over an hour till check in. They let us check in early which we did whilst ken took pictures. we said goodbye to rob's parents and then went and got a pasty to eat. After We'd [View Full Entry]

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Steph and Rob do Eastern Europe Steph Duke, Rob CridlandWell if you hadn't already guessed we are going to be travelling for the foreseeable future and this is our Travelblog. I'm sure there is a way to unsubscribe to them if you like, but we haven't figured that part out yet so you are stuck with us. Here are the provisional basics of our travel plans. We are by no means sticking to these dates and destinations but it is the main structure of what we want to see. If anyone has any tips, ideas or suggestions please fee [View Full Entry]

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