Train number 1
At the train station in St. Petersburg I get on the train number 1, direction Moscow. Trains will take next trip on the Trans-Siberian railway to Vladivostok that will take me. This part of the trip and share with Gianmaria Barbara. My friendship with Gianmaria dates back to 1992, both arrived by train to Narvik with InterRail, we met on a bus heading north. Narvik, in fact, is the northernmost railway station in Europe, the last one for those of us that summer, is directed to the North Cape. It took three days to reach the destination by bus and ferry, and was sure then that we began to organize the crossing of Siberia.
The train of maroon both internally and externally, is of the same model on which I have already traveled during my first attempt to reach St. Petersburg. Everywhere in the compartments and corridors, there are carpets and potted plants. Find the same mattress, wrapped in heavy cylinders. This time, however, we are given a porcelain tea set, a box of yogurt, cereal, water, sandwiches, chocolate, pistachio and coffee, and a set including towel, toothbrush, toothpaste and comb.
The provodnitsa responsible for our coach does not stop a minute: I clean all surfaces with a cloth, wash cups and tea pots and clean the passenger door, vacuuming on the hallway carpet and the compartments, in order keep the toilet, change the garbage bags that contained in the baskets and fill up the bags that held in the passageway between the cars.
station arrival, Leningradsky Vokzal, is a building identical to where we started, the Moskovskij Vokzal of St. Petersburg. Stations are a bit 'dark, but neat, tidy and full of police who keep watch over the order and discipline. Do not let sit on the steps, on the other hand there are dodgy types around. We descend into the Metro, which carries more people per day than those in London and New York combined, and it shows.
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