June 2011 | Europe By Camper - Travelling Europe By Motorhome

Tallinn

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Our crossing over to Tallinn was uneventful and the duty free shop was 'expensive' compared to our trip over to Russia. It was obvious that the Fin's onboard were taking advantage of the food and drink on offer starting their cheap weekend in Tallinn, it was a Friday sailing after all.<br />
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After we disembarked we set about refilling our twin 22L gas tanks as we hadn't filled up for over a month at this point. The three LPG stations we had listed for Tallinn no longer existed and by pure chance while navigating some road works we saw a sign for 'GAAS' which turned out to be LPG. Disappointingly we only managed 32L meaning we still had 12L spare but at least it was one thing off our mind.<br />
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We then set about finding somewhere to park.<b><span style="color: red;"> ** Please note and read the comments at the bottom of this post, more recent visitors suggest that this location is no longer safe for parking or overnight ** </span></b>It is evident that Tallinn has been earmarked as up and coming and Europe's land speculators (Euro Carparks amung others) have been busy buying strips of land and turning them into carparks meaning a great deal of choice. Around the ports you can park for as little as €1 a day but the area is just wasteland with a healthy traffic of people leaving to depart on ship it's not an ideal location for the van. We settled on an unmarked Car Park suitable for all vans just a stones throw from the Old Town and €6/day (GPS: 59.44208, 24.74280) and have been Wild Camping here for two days without issue, you might be able to find cheaper but to be honest we've not paid for parking in over a month so a few euro's to park in a capital seems small change.<br />
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I was worried when I saw the amount of Duty Free the Estonian's had loaded up, but I shouldn't have worried - 500ml bottle of Larger is 90c in a shop so bound to be a bit cheaper at a Supermarket and diesel is now down to £1.10 a litre.<br />
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Tomorrow we have a mammoth launderette session lined up - I think nearly everything we own needs washing and we have a months worth of clothes packed up!</div>

Tallinn

Our crossing over to Tallinn was uneventful and the duty free shop was 'expensive' compared to our trip over to Russia. It was obvi...

LPG / Autogas in Tallinn Estonia - POI/GPS

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If you are looking for LPG (Autogas / Gaas) in Tallinn after arriving via the ferry from Finland where there is NO LPG you might be frustrated to find many of the publically listed LPG stations have now closed. We did manage to fill up when we stumbled upon a newly opened automated station by pure chance.<br />
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<b>GPS Coordinates </b> 59.41771 N, 24.75442 E </div>
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The station is Automatic and the LPG despite being unnamed is Number 3. You use the pre-pay station to pay and select your maximum amount for pre-authorisation. It doesn't matter if you don't use all of the amount you have selected, you will only be charged for the actual gas you take. A receipt is available.<br />
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This station along with some others is listed on this website, which might be more accurate - I cannot verify the existence of any of the other stations however:<br />
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<a href="http://www.autogaasservis.ee/doc/Autogaasi%20tanklad%20Eestis.html">http://www.autogaasservis.ee/doc/Autogaasi%20tanklad%20Eestis.html</a></div>

LPG / Autogas in Tallinn Estonia - POI/GPS

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St Petersburg - Russia!

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been to St Petersburg!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you
know us personally then you’ll know that we’ve been talking about going to
Russia for some time. It was originally our intention to take in Moscow and St
Petersburg on this trip by road but after some initial difficulties on
obtaining fully comprehensive insurance for our van wrote that idea off.
When we did find a willing Dutch insurer we were already on the road and hadn’t
done any of the necessary research that such a journey would require so decided
to save it for another time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Looking
at the map it was frustrating seeing just how close St Petersburg was and the
number of Russian registered vehicles on the roads here in Finland made it even more
frustrating, so we began re-investigating Visa’s, ferrys and trains only to
discover that it is actually possible to visit St Petersburg for up to 72hours
without requiring one.... So what the hell, we booked it! Due to other
constraints we only booked the one night, it is possible to have two and if you
get the opportunity to do so I recommend that you take it – there is just so
much to take in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was
exactly the mix of spectacular buildings, insane traffic, prices both end of
the spectrum that we had envisaged – we loved every minute of it!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Apologies
for the unusual level of detail here, I try to keep our blog posts punchy but
there was just so much to take in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are two parts to this article, this post focuses on our time in St Petersburg
and the other focuses on the practical information if you wanted to replicate
something similar yourselves. To see the latter, <a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2011/06/helsinki-to-st-petersburg-visa-free.html">click here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Having
left the van in a secure parking garage we boarded the boat in Helsinki at 6pm.
I’m unsure at this point whether to call it a ferry or a cruise ship as to us
it was just a reasonably priced method of transport – it could be either
depending on your inclination and budget. We had a comfortable en-suite twin cabin with a great shower and one of
those marine toilets that threaten to eat you alive if you haven’t already run
20 paces after you’ve flushed it. We had eaten beforehand in anticipating the
prices onboard and rounded off our evening with some duty free wine and beer.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The next
morning we opted for a breakfast buffet onboard to set us up for the day at 7am
(now GMT+3!), I don’t know what anyone else thinks’ when they see a continental
breakfast but I see ham and cheese sandwiches slipped into the backpack for
lunch! Before we knew it we had docked in the brand new Marine Facade located
just outside the city centre to make St Petersburg more accessible to larger
cruise ships then the crowded Neva that runs through the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Once
outside the comfort of the guarded port we were greeted with a mixture of
soviet tile-clad tower blocks in various states of disrepair rubbing shoulders
with recently constructed trendy apartments made out of glass and bricks. This
contrast mirrored the cars on the road - Lada’s, communist trucks and vehicles
in various states of disrepair being overtaken at breakneck speed by brand new BMW
X5’s with black tinted windscreens! More on cars, roads and driving a bit
later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The shuttle
bus dropped us off at St Isaac’s Cathedral and this was a perfect opportunity
to climb to the top (£3.40 each) and get our bearings as to where the major
sights are located. However, we had to learn how to cross the road first and we
were of no help to the American tourists who asked us if new knew how to “hail
a cab”! For a brief time it was like being dropped on Mars until we worked out
that you sort of cross the road and as if by magic the traffic parts or goes
around you and those that have lights count down the seconds before they change.
From the top of St Isaac’s we worked out or plan of action and took a few of
the obligatory city backdrop photo’s.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The next
stop was the Church of Spilled Blood which has those magnificent ice cream
coned spires which is the first thing that pops into your head when you think about
Moscow. The inside (£5 each) was just as lavishly decorated in gilded gold leaf.<br />
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At this
point we were still trying to take it all in, the guide book had failed to
prepare us for the scale of the place and the pictures by no means did it
justice. We walked over to Peter and Paul’s Fortress stopping to get one of the
Smoked Salmon Crepes we’d read about in the book  (£1.50 each) and looking on in awe at the
show of force by the Russian Artilary Museum – “and this is the stuff we don’t
use anymore!”. We were looking at the Jewish Synagogue with a mixture of
beautiful blue tiles and dull grey concrete when at which point the heaven’s
opened and we hid in a doorway until the worst of it passed.<br />
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couldn’t believe the length of the queue’s we saw waiting to get inside the
Winter Palace, easily 2-300 people so some tactical thinking needed to be
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district en-route to the hotel, while there was the usual stalls selling
‘tourist tat’ – Russian dolls, soviet memorabilia and the likes some were
selling gold and silver jewellery. Our one regret from our visit is that we did
not get much time to get into the shops and markets which could easily take two
or more days on their own, instead we tried to stick to the main tourist areas.<br />
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We chose
‘Sky Hotel’ which is one of the cheapest in St Petersburg, you enter it via a
sort of back alley and as you walk up the stairs you can see into the adjacent
buildings where people appeared to be living despite squalid rooms and broken
windows. The hotel, on the sixth floor, is very clean and modern and prices
start at €50 for a double room with shared facilities which are what we opted
for since it was for one night and we had our own en-suite on the boat.</div>
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our jeans from the shower and set off to find somewhere to have our tea, we
spent some time looking down the side streets of Nevsky. We settled on one Restaurant
with a large outside terrace, since smoking is rife in every restaurant
(because cigarettes are 34p a packet, yes 34p!). However once we got the menu’s
it was clear the prices were 40% more than the one outside – so we left! I’m
sorry to say at this point we ended up in an Indian we had seen online called
Tandoor. The service was typical Russian – terrible! - but the food was good
and the beer was one of my favourite German wheat beers so all was forgiven. It
was still light and warm when we left 11pm as we made our way back to the
hotel, calling in at 24 hour cake shop for two delicious slices of cake and two
bottles of water (£3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We got
up at 7am which is 6am Helsinki time, could have been any time you like by that
point as we’ve been through 3 time zones in as many weeks. Breakfast is
included in our room rate but it’s down the road in a sister hotel which is no
big deal so we checked out and had some breakfast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tactical plane was to get to the Hermitage for 9am (£8 each) so we could be
first in the queue, which we virtually were. I may have read somewhere that the
Hermitage is the largest art collection in the world, the scale of the place
once inside is breath taking. We deliberately didn’t take our camera inside
since we took the opportunity to leave our bags in the cloakroom and I’d had my
camera glued to my hand the previous day so it was good to have a break from
it. I’ve got to admit we don’t know a lot about art so show me a painting and
tell me it’s a Rembrandt and I’ll believe you. My advice is plan your trip here
– research what is on show, get there early and plan your route. You WILL got
lost (we did, several times) and spent nearly 3 hours walking around it trying
to take it all in.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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outside we attempted to fill in some of the gaps from the day before, St
Nicholas Cathedral and then up past the station. This is where, for me (Adam),
St Petersburg really came alive. Old Ladies selling simple items at the side of
the road, we walked passed one woman holding out a pair of adidas trainers in
the hope that a passerby would offer her something for them. Kiosk stalls
selling Beer and Cigarettes and Vodka for pence and all sorts of food stands
with the western favourites represented at about a quarter of what we’re used
to paying for.<br />
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Of the
few shops we went in the cosmetics items that Sophie looked at were about the
same price and we had hoped to find some bits and pieces to bring back but we
didn’t really want or need anything. We arrived back at the bus stop for 4:30pm
and was back onboard with an exit stamp in our passport – the whole experience
having ended as quickly as it begun.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Amazing.
Fantiastic. Wish we’d stayed longer – but we will be back one day to visit and
Moscow has just jumped up several places on the ‘to do’ list. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">St
Petersburg is a MAD place when it comes to cars and driving, we saw 3 accidents
while we were there and there were many other cars with evidence of recent collisions.
The traffic is a mixture of new BMW’s and old Lada’s and other Russian cars I
didn’t recognise with the traffic lights being controlled by police in tinted
booths at the side of intersections. The police in their Lada’s chatted and
shared cigarettes while the chaos went on around them – with speeds on the
Nevskiy Prospekt easily topping 70mph. We did spot a couple of guarded car
parks that would be perfect for camping though!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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