Free Talk: Blog on Vacation

So, as I mentioned earlier, I’m going on a trip this coming September. It will be from 1 to 18th. The arrival will be at night so I don’t think I can do any summary by then.

It will be a Scandinavia-Russia tour. Tour = drag around like herd to hit and run some tourist spots. There are a lot of places and I’m not confident enough to navigate alone with my mom so it has to be a tour. Originally, it is just Russia and it was supposed to be last year but I got sick after the US trip so...

We booked the trip during a travel expo last Feb. My mom also wanted to go to Europe so I decided that we go for two birds with one stone. I chose this agency since it has longer days at basically the same price as what the others offer.

It should be at the end of June. Haha, I even timed it for me to be here around the 13th. =P But, perhaps, at the back of my mind, I felt that it isn’t going to push through because that is World Cup season. Or, they'll charge more. 

In the end, it didn’t push through. And, we didn’t even know about it until we called to follow up the visas. I’m starting to have a bad feeling that I might have booked the wrong agency but we cannot back out since there is a deposit and discount = from the travel expo. So, it was Sept 1. It took some time for me to realize that they decreased the trip by one day.

They removed the day for outskirts trip in St Petersburg for Peterhof and Catherine Palace. And, I wanted to see the fountains. Haha, so I’m psyching myself that I made the right decision since I’ve replaced that with a side trip to Bergen. Is it?

The other tours don’t have Bergen but had that one extra day in St. Petersburg <- at that time during the expo. They even tried to lessen the discount they originally gave us. ^^; Ah, even if I’m still hung up on missing that one day in St. Petersburg. ^^; I mean, the chances of going back to this part of the world is extremely slim and would I do so for a couple of places that I didn't get to visit? 

The place is also second to the last leg of the tour so the idea of extending a day to go there is out of the question, too. Lol, I obviously thought so much about this. I was hoping that the trip to Moscow would be pushed in the afternoon but I guess, they don't want to risk the possibility of being late.

On the last day, we are going to the airport after lunch. Even if the plane is leaving at 12 midnight. ^^;; Traffic jams are notorious there they say. Anyway, I’ll just pray and hope for the best that the tour is better than the pre-departure stuff or that low rating trip review on google some years back <- learned later on.

So, when I get back, I’ll work on Kurosaki first. Hopefully, it will be out this time. Then, Kono Oto Tomare. I can only say that I’ll work on it asap because I’m not sure about jetlag and how tired I would be from the tour. 

That’s it for now ^^ 

'See you again' on mid-September ^^