Mooreen Dooreen and Badonk

Hello again,

Well we got here at last, as we were flying in over russia and i had cups over my ears it didnt look very much different from sweden, everything was covered in snow. We waited for like one and a half hours at the stupid passport control because the man checked everyones passports for 15 minutes each. It was ridiculous. AND these russian people kept cutting ahead of us, anyway the man at the passport desk was really young! He seemed like a bit of a newbie and i was deaf from my on flight ear experience so i had no idea what he was saying and he kept asking questions. OH WELL, mission entry into Russia was a moderate success.

We were met by our lovely taxi driver by the name of Vlad, who spoke no english and communicated with us through a series of grunting noises and shy gestures. He made us walk a kilometer with our fat bags, which by the way seemed a lot heavier after the flight than when we checked them in. Until finally we got to his uber small car, yeah how our bags fit in the trunk is still a russian miracle. He was listening to Tom Jones on the radio, and Tom Jones songs sound like porno movies so at first we were a bit unsure whether this was our guy. He realised our discomfort and changed to hardcore dance music, he turned around and said "You like trans?" in a Russian accent, we didnt want to offend him and sat for one and a half hours listening to weird electronic bleeps. Oh yeah and I have never seen so much traffic in my ENTIRE life, there was no point in driving, we could have crawled backwards and we would have moved faster.

Arrived at the hostel to find our room empty...sweet, apart from it smelled like weird mens deoderant and a really impatient hostel woman kept shoving linnen in our faces. In the common room we met some lovely people, rather many of them from the north of england... and one is from Canada oh and one is from Chicago!! (julia says raise the roof) Description of the rest of the Common Room Clan will come later. Oh and then we met our fellow Vodkatrain (yes thats what its called) companions. Two sisters from holland called Mooreen and Dooreen (their real names are Nadine and Badonk) and a boy from Australia called Jason who seems to have some sort of cronic sinus disease or disorder. Poor boy but more on that later.

Lots of love
xxxx