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Let me know once you're in Estonia, I'll show you around if you want.
Crossing at Narva would normally be inadvisable (by car), but motorcycles get priority booking at the border station, basically 10 minutes out of every hour are reserved for bikes if there are any.
Around St Petersburg... I assume you mean WWII? You could look at Lake Ladoga, the Road of Life, the ice roads where convoys broke through the (rather reluctant and unmotivated) Finnish-held sections of the Leningrad blockade.
Heading straight west from Volgograd is obviously a non-starter right now and unlikely to be resolved by summer of next year. There is certainly lots of war history stuff in Crimea, but for I would discourage you from going there, both for self-evident reasons, and because even if you get through the Kerch ferry crossing okay, you may have trouble crossing north overland after that.
That said, if you swing north to cross into Ukraine, I'd recommend Odessa. From there you can go via the communism safari of Transdniester into Moldova, and then Romania (which these days is cheap, un-scary and often quite awesome).
Your other option would be to head down from Volgograd into the Caucasus and take a ferry from Poti/Batumi to Bulgaria.
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I landed in Estonia from Stockholm July 2016. immediately fell in love with " the old town" and the city in general..So much so I stayed longer than I planned...
I then headed to Latvia, Lithuania , Poland ' Hitlers wolf lair' and Zagan Home of the real great escape camp.. Czech, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and worked my way to England... Eastern Europe was a real surprise package to me and will be coming back... Thank you for your offer it is noted and very much appreciated . I have been talking to several English riders and the general consensus is for a first timer, try and team up with other riders to travel Russia, Ukraine.
I am now seriously thinking of teaming up ....
Regards Phil
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