Held up in Vladivostok

I am an independant traveler that likes to do things my own way. Its for this reason that I flew into Vladivostok from Kamchatka without a hotel booking, or a plan beyond clearing the departure hall.


I travel like this because I find the challenge interesting, and I have an innate belief in the good of humanity, or more specifically, my common man.


It seems however that a plan, and the ability to speak a modicum of Russian would have served me a little better. I didn’t even make the arrivals hall of Vladivostok airport. I got on the wrong bus out of the plane and find myself in the transit hall. “Nyet Transit...ski” and showing enough security officials my plane ticket finally had me escorted to the arrivals hall where my baggage was fortunately still waiting for me.