Friday, May 12, 2006

The Russian border..

(Ha Ha that was a good one! I should tell them that!)

So i made it Saint Petersburg.. And in the process i had to cross the Estonian/Russian border..
So we're stopped at the Estonian side, and they collect the passports and stuff.. and they even have a dog come in the bus to sniff everyone! So i'm thinking "ok that's some serious border we have here"..

Then we cross to the Russian side and there, no collecting of passports; everyone has to actually get down the bus, with all luggage to go through the control point..
Ok, so we go.. it's 3:30 in the night but we go..
Fill the form, go through control, go to the guy who tells you how to properly fill the form, go through control again!...
Good, passed!
But then after the passport check, i see everyone line up in front of some closed office and enter one by one.. I'm thinking "they're really not joking here, individual luggage control in a private room!!"...

...

until i realised everyone was actually just waiting to go to the bathroom before going back to the bus!!

well, we all get confused don't we?!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hola mon bon Arjun ! mon compagnon de guitare ! bon, je vais pas faire l'effort de t'écrire en anglais, mais tu dois encore comprendre encore le français, non ? "fromage", "vin de bordeaux", "baguette" ça te dit encore quelque chose ;-) ?

alors maintenant te voila en russie ? apparemment ton voyage en lettonie avait l'air agréable...n'oublie pas de prendre quelques numéros de téléphone de contacts féminins pour les amis, on sait jamais, si je dois m'exiler qq part...

ramène nous de belles photos de st petersbourg, ce sera peut être l'une de mes prochaines destination... donne moi un avant goût !

le froid ne t'empeche pas de grattouiller j'espère ? bon, message perso : notre maitre, serge, est toujours au top...hâte que tu reviennes que je t'émerveilles un peu avec ma technique ;-)...

allez, à la prochaine mon gars !