This is my first entry outside the UK, and I have to apologise for it taking so long to make, having left Heathrow on Thursday 17th January. (I got out just before the plane crash) It has been so hard to find an Internet cafe in St Petersburg that I had to wait till Moscow before I could make an entry. I arrived at St Petersburg airport at 4pm Russia time and it was already getting dark. The Russians may look intimidating but I had no problems getting, in so they must be ok. The airport it's self is very basic but the military presence is your main welcome to Russia and they have to given you the niceties of Duty Frees upon arrival so stock up before. You then can risk the expensive Taxi's or
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