Nuclear Ninety North Eclipse of the Midnight Sun August 1st, 2008

Farewell, Russia

It's about as tedious to leave Russia as it is to enter. This is a view of the waiting (and waiting, and waiting) room at the Murmansk airport before we ran the gauntlet of departure control. As befits a civilised nation with control of its borders, nobody was required to take off their shoes.

And here's a last look just before boarding the Finnair flight to Helsinki. Tonight we'd be sleeping in a place where the Sun sets at night for the first time in two weeks!

by John Walker August 20th, 2008

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