St. Petersburg to Murmansk
 

What is the situation re Cash machines, or paying Diesel with Visa
thinking of crossing back into Norway and Nordkapp, any good advise on that. Thanks, Manfred, in Tallinn

Cash machines are everywhere in Russia nowadays Manfred.

I never used a credit card to pay for fuel (as I always withdrew cash from my savings account at ATMs along the way) so I can't comment on paying for fuel with a visa card.

Have a great journey. :)

cash or CC
 

hi manfredschweda as farqhuar said - cash machines are readily available in most major towns. it is much better to get your cash from an ATM than it is to buy things with your CC.

when we were there we had a few times when the bank ATM was out of money yet still put it through as though we had got the cash...no problems however, as we kept all receipts or kept notes if no receipts were issued. and we were re credited with any monies we disputed (obviously with supporting argument)

this is much more difficult to do if you use your CC in a variety of gas stations and your CC is used fraudulently.

this is a fascinating area to travel through, make sure that you get to ride through some of the smaller towns and villages as you go up to Murmansk.

be ready for the huge mosquitoes!

roads
 

Thanks for replies
Follow up question how are the roads, am in an old van.
And which is the border on top to get out to Nordkapp, Norway

hi
have a read of this...is our journal from a few years back - so things may have changed since and they were working on the road then so.....

2ridetheworld.com : diary

if you want to read more about other countries go to here
2ridetheworld.com : diary and just select the continent and then country.

go and download our GPS track log (full journey but listed by country) where we have ref. borders, hotels which is available on the front page, bottom right of our website.