Another change

Well, it would appear that the ability to get a quick visa in Finland us only available to citizens of the EU (apparently only recently this change was made). So, I am now doing a more "classical" begining to my trans-Siberian trip (according to all of the guidebooks); I should have nothing left that I want to see on Moscow after this.

I am taking a train from Minsk to Moscow and staying at a youth hostel for 5 nights. I have always said that I wish I could spend more time in Moscow, because it us such an impressive city, and I guess I am now going to get that chance. I have talked to both my travel agent in Belarus and the people at the official government tourist agency, and both seem to think that I will be ok taking a train to Moscow from here.

Last time I was in Moscow I only stayed 1 day because there were no youth hostels in the city. Luckilly that has changed... There are many hostels now, and I found a pretty popular one with vacancy.

So, that us the new plan, if this works (and I have to believe it will), hopefully I can get on some sort normal schedule. I still can not believe the gigantic problem that missing a flight in Moscow has caused. I would have paid more (and it would have been cheaper and less time consuming at this point) to enter Belarus via train from Warsaw if I would have somehow known that this would have happened.

That is all... I will likely send another update from the wireless access in my hotel before I leave Minsk. After that, everything will be done from Moscow for the next 5 days... Either from wireless access or internet cafe's or hopefully a Internet station in my hostel.

- The Dues