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Dec. 22nd, 2011 02:11 pmSURPRISE, I'M IN RUSSIA!
Just at the St. Petersburg airport, waiting to be he led in so I can catch my connecting flight to Helsinki. Hope I don't miss the announcement: the speaker is so crappy, I can't understand anything. I am so weirded out by this place. I am confined to a detainment area in the main hall. There is a thick glass wall separating the area I'm in from the rest of the airport. I don't quite know what I'm supposed to be doing or if there is anyone I need to be talking to; I tried asking at the desk, but the women there didn't speak English, and I don't speak Russian, so you can imagine how that went. Then a guard came over and told mento sit down. I did, fighting back tears because I am confused, stressed and Bella sleep deprived (thanks, Schiphol). TRAVELLER'S PROTIP: if people aren't telling you what you need to know, CRY. seriously, within may e 30seconds of my first self-pitying sniff, another guard came up to me and started reassuring me that I'm just early for my flight, and that I really don't need to worry yet.
Anyway, hopefully everything will work out and I'll catch up to my luggage in finlnd. Gonna post now, as I don't want my iPods battery to die before I get back to Groningen NEXT YEAR.
I hope everyone else's holidays involve merriment, relaxation, and not being trapped in Russian airports!
Just at the St. Petersburg airport, waiting to be he led in so I can catch my connecting flight to Helsinki. Hope I don't miss the announcement: the speaker is so crappy, I can't understand anything. I am so weirded out by this place. I am confined to a detainment area in the main hall. There is a thick glass wall separating the area I'm in from the rest of the airport. I don't quite know what I'm supposed to be doing or if there is anyone I need to be talking to; I tried asking at the desk, but the women there didn't speak English, and I don't speak Russian, so you can imagine how that went. Then a guard came over and told mento sit down. I did, fighting back tears because I am confused, stressed and Bella sleep deprived (thanks, Schiphol). TRAVELLER'S PROTIP: if people aren't telling you what you need to know, CRY. seriously, within may e 30seconds of my first self-pitying sniff, another guard came up to me and started reassuring me that I'm just early for my flight, and that I really don't need to worry yet.
Anyway, hopefully everything will work out and I'll catch up to my luggage in finlnd. Gonna post now, as I don't want my iPods battery to die before I get back to Groningen NEXT YEAR.
I hope everyone else's holidays involve merriment, relaxation, and not being trapped in Russian airports!
