Tuesday 1st June 2010

forgot to mention yesterday that Lee managed to get the spring welded--trailer all fixed now-good as new!!!.......Off to Russia today, we need to get car insurance and some cash......We have read that you get insurance at border but when we asked they said "No go transit place" and pointed at map..O.K ....at transit place "no insurance here--buy at border--20 euros please for ticket for boder queue"...O.K...so at 11.30am we joined queue again at the border..I gave them the ticket and again asked, the reply was "I no not this word insurance"...1pm...through first barrier--told to wait---asked for papers for trailer, but of course the papers don't exist--it's an old 1968 trailer--no papers needed..or so we were told....at 1.10 they said ok and sent us to next queue--1.30 haven't moved an inch....2.05 moved a few feet through red light and given custom and migration papers to fill in...2.20 still queueing...3pm same....3.30 moved a bit and handed in papers...told us we had filled them in wrong--do it again---ok---still wrong do it again and make copies---then asked for papers for trailer--explained it all again---4pm...refused entry and told to wait-----5pm still waiting..(bladders bursting)....6pm still waiting----7pm sent back to Estonia----went back to Hotel---YES Hurray..bank card still working;, so at least we are ok for tonight..........started sorting trailer out, giving all the food ect. away to passers by, soon we had about 30 people---word spreads quickly---man turned up, said he was from salvation army he works rehousing alchoholics, said he could use the trailer...will come tomorrow at 11am to collect...........then we had pizza and went to bed.....what a day!!!!!!!!!!