Trans Siberian Part 11 From Russia with Love (and Finland)
Moscow Awoke in a sweat. Some difficulty finding the shower. I found Petra on the well worn sofa outside our room, beneath poorly hung posters and sagging maps. She was struggling with the bureaucracy involved in crossing the Baltic states back to Czech. The Baltic route, through Latvia and Lithuania did not require the expensive visas passing directly through Belarus did, but it did require an overnight stay in Vilnius to avoid passing through a few miles of Belarus at its North Western point. So here she was debating on whether or not to fly to Warsaw or carry on to St. Petersburg with me. So it was, as her card didn't work, that our first task in Moscow was to find a Baltic air office. So off we went. "Moscow very clear and cold this morning. At the major intersection where Baltic Air was supposed to be, we found nothing, nor anything new enough to suggest it had been here within the last 10 to 15 years. So we asked around....
