I decided to have a day off from sight seeing today, and chill out. I went to the train station to buy my ticket to Moscow which was a very pleasant 25 min walk along the main high street in St P, full of shops, a bit like Oxford St with lots of the same shops, Monsoon, Zara, H&M to name a few. So I arrived armed with all the info I needed and found the ticket office which had about 25 booths. No prob I thought, but it took over an hour of waiting in line before my turn came. I showed the lady behind the counter the note that the Anna from the hostel had written in Russian, with all the details I needed including; the train number, time it was due to leave,
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