Picture of the Day: The Chronicles of Russia

Ah, we've reached the end of our Russian Adventure! We forgot to check the train schedule when we arrived at Peterhof, so we ended up spending about 40 minutes waiting on the platform. Luckily, the weather was nice, so we could just bask in the sun. Well, for the most part.

At one point during our long wait, an apparently very drunk (and/or very crazy) Russian man came up to us. He kept trying to tell us things, while we kept repeating 'we don't speak Russian!' At one point he tried to give us a book, which we took at first, but, then, realizing he seemed to take this as an invitation to stay and babble at us, we tried to give it back. I don't remember exactly what went down, but I do remember thinking the Russians around us found it highly amusing :p hehe

When we got back into St. P., we once again had incredible trouble locating our transportation. Our bus tickets weren't particularly specific, and we wandered around the train station trying to figure out where the bus terminal was -- pointing at the Russian word for 'bus' in the guidebook I had on my Kindle. We didn't get more than some vague pointing. I was, of course, getting frustrated, though we weren't particularly worried. The bus tickets were very cheap, and our visas had another 24 hours on them. But still, we really didn't want to miss our bus just because we couldn't find it!

Finally, Rasmus noticed a girl with a suitcase standing around on a curb in front of the station, as if waiting for something.  On a whim, he asked her where she was going, and, yes, she was waiting for our bus! Woo! That's when we noticed the inconspicuous sign with our bus company's logo right where she was standing. (Also, one of the guys we try to ask for directions had actually pointed in the direction of the sign, but it kind of looked like he was pointing across the street.....)

Anyway, one very long bus ride (and stops at the Russian and EU border patrols) later, we were back in Tallinn! And so ends the Chronicles of Russia :p