Carlos - the adventurer's adventurer!

Luckily he is riding the road to Estonia today,taking the route we are proposing to take tomorrow. We have had differing reports on the state of it once you get out of St Petersburg ranging from 'the road is good', 'the road is ok', 'the road is great', 'there is no road'! It is the last one that has made Will a little twitchy - think Bambi on Ice on a motorcycle and you wouldn't be far away. Carlos is going to put some pictures on his blog and let us know how the road conditions are, we will then decide what we are going to do, we do have the option of going to Helsinki and then catching a ferry to Tallin and onto Parnu in Estonia which is where we propose to stop.

Insurance is all sorted, we stumbled across a company called Elite Holdings who have absolutely nothing to do with insurance but had english signs in the window and the receptionist spoke great english. We were helped out by Natasha who when we explained what we needed spent 20 minutes on the phone sorting everything out, she wrote all the details in russian to hand in at the other end and gave us directions to walk to a brokers. We did, they did and now we have! Mint!

St Petersburg is an incredible city, we have had a good rest but I will be happy to get on the road tomorrow. We met up with the guy who rode us into town last night and with a bit of luck, if he gets a pass from his wife he will guide us out of town in the morning. Another stroke of luck!

Mike
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