Finally the day has come! After waiting for months, the first day of SPARK has begun.
While the alarms on many phones today went off pretty early (including mine), the first real group “activity” was gathering at Flux. Once everybody was packed and ready to leave, we departed to Schiphol airport for our first flight. Although many people where half asleep, everything went fine. (Though some people had to be reminded to keep their luggage with them)
The first country of our tour was in fact Poland, on our connected flight to Saint Petersburg. After wandering a bit on the airport in search for food it was off to the good old yellow M to get our lunches.
Once everybody was full again and ready to leave we gathered at the gate for our final destination. Due to a minor thunderstorms the flight was a bit delayed with 30 minutes but it was nothing major to handle.
The second flight went well and nothing major happened. Once we arrived in Russia our first encounters with the Russian traffic where far better then expected from the widely know dash cam videos all over the internet. (Meaning we actually survived the bus trip quite comfortably) Once arrived at our hostel it was a bit of acclamatizing to Russia itself and trying our first Russian meal, the Stroganov. After the meals it was time to taste the russian vodka so “za zdrovo’ya !” and untill the next blog.
Martyn van Dijke