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the joys of public transport in London this week

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Labels: London, public transport

posted by Sara @ 1:11 pm 0 comments

UGH, Monday!

hope you're having a good day . . . mine is off to a very slow start, tube station was closed due to over crowding, buses were heaving full so couldn't really get on, late for meeting at 9.15 so now have to go back during my lunch break, by time I got into lab I discovered it was more of a pool than a lab, as in there were inches of water in one of the small rooms and when I opened the door, it just spread all over the main lab - rain water from Saturday night, so as you can imagine the wet cardboard smell is LOVELY around here. and as I'm sure you can guess others "saw" a problem but didn't know who to call so they just left it alone - What the heck?

TGIALT (thank goodness it's almost lunch time)

Labels: public transport, stress, work

posted by Sara @ 12:21 pm 0 comments

saint petersburg - I LOVE YOU!!!

WARNING: very slow connection, no time for spell check, just going to type & try to keep the connection - sorry for any issues of horrible spelling!!

In Saint Peterburg & all I can say thus far is WOW, what a beautiful city!!! Arrived after 3 hours on a plane with all the SPB football fans who'd just won the UEFA cup in Manchester - this means I was with 50 odd DRUNK footballers who couldn't understand why I didn't want to drink controu right from the bottle they were passing around. It also meant I was one of 4 females on the flight & I reckon the only non-russian. I made it through passport control without a problem, then thanks to my mate topher's excellent directions was able to navigate public transport all on my own with the 4 russian words I know (yes, no, thank you, one) got the 13 bus to city centre where I got on the metro went 5 stops & swtiched lines, went one more stop up out from metro on the LONGEST wooden escaltor I've ever seen/been on, turned right walked 7 minutes down teh road, turned right, second building on the right, flat 13, press button & Marina answered - YEAH me!!!!

Trust me this was not as easy as I just made it seem, but I did it. I highly advise not to travel at rush hour on your first attempt at the metro - confusing enough trying to sort out the pretty cyrillic words, but I some how managed, after a brief panic at one of the stations where I forced myself to just sit down & figure out where I was on the map - luckily for me I was on the right track, just hadn't gone far enough yet.

Last night Marina, Olga & I went out for sushi & then on a driving tour of the city - how beautiful all the buildings are & all the parks & things. Got to see one of hte bridges draw early just for tourists like me :) too bad I'd forgotten my camera! Also went to this spot with a bird on a small ledge where you try to drop a coin & land it on the ledge then your wish comes true, course I didn't land it there, but will go back & try again - can't recall the name of it now.

okay off to shower, get my visa registered & wonder around SPB!!! In case you can't tell I highly recommend this city to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Labels: holidays, public transport, saint petersburg, travel

posted by Sara @ 8:56 am 1 comments