Planning: Moscow to London

The  last few weeks have not been very easy with the planning. My intention had been to go from Moscow to St Petersburg, and then from there a ferry to Helsinki. From Helsinki, another ferry would take us to Stockholm, and from there it was a train to Copenhagen. The last leg would take us from from Copenhagen to Amsterdam and then Hook of Holland to the delights of Harwich.                              

However, this was to be done over two weeks which, was a tight timeframe. Not a problem as we are rushing past most places on this trip. The big stumbling block was cost. It was clearly going to cost a fortune. Just the first couple of ferry costings put it way out of our budget.

Back to the man in seat 61 (www.seat61.com) and we have been in contact with train companies to take us back from Moscow to London as directly as possible. The first inquiry has been to go from Moscow to Cologne (2 day train ride) and then from Cologne to Brussels, finishing with the Eurostar into Kings Cross St Pancras. This is still being desperately researched...

UPDATE 8th June: Through Monkeyshrine we bought Moscow to Cologne tickets. The total cost was €1,432 or £1,185. We then bought tickets between Cologne and Brussels on the Thalys train and between Brussels and London St Pancras on the Eurostar. We used  www.raileurope.com for this. The total for the four of us was £292.