Good news!

[jamjar]

I will be going the long way back!

The Trans-Siberian is back on. Looks like the plan is a couple of days in Shanghai, six or seven on the train and a couple more in Moscow.

From there,I'll probably go on to St Petersburg, having said a tearful goodbye to my travelling companion, by overnight train, and on to Helsinki after that, where I can see my relatives before heading back to the UK.

Things to do:

Resume panicking over logistics.
Email Finnish relatives.
Look in to getting a visa for China.
Start saving.
Start sending stuff back.
Buy lots of packing tape and brown wrapping paper.
Repeat first item on the list.

Yay!

Comments

[caithion.livejournal.com]

Talked to a friend about the visa. Apparently you can either take your passport into an embassy yourself, or there is one in... Nagasaki?... that you can mail it to along with a form. Takes about a week. She said she'd email me the forms and such.

Thing is, I can't mail mine in until I get back on the 15th. Yay, panic!

[hime1999.livejournal.com]

Take care of yourself. And don't forget to come to Japan again when you have the chance. ^_~

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

woot!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Yay!

You sounded so disappointed that I felt quite bad for you, so I'm glad things are going to work out!