Day 62: Astrakan

Day 2 in Astrakan, same hotel, which didn't turn out as nice as we had hoped.

The "nice" General Manager from the night before took our passports to "register" them, and ended up keeping them all day.

Then we got charged 1000 rubles for the registration (it should be free).

That's when we realized the "discount" he supposedly gave us the night before for the second night, was the 1000 rubles to "register" our visa's, and that the second night was the same as the first. We also realized that nothing was included. The pool was 200 rubles, the weight room was 200 rubles.

We got woken up at 3:30 am by the night clerk to tell us that the bikes had been vandalized. We ran out, and someone had pushed over my bike, which pushed it into Cory's causing some damage to the windscreen. We propped it back up, and asked about the security guard and video camera's that were supposedly on our bikes at all times. He shrugged his shoulders. So much for security.

We spent the rest of the night in fitful sleep, worried about the bikes.