The Belarus website goes on about medical insurance and verified hotel bookings etc.

It does mention that you can get one abroad - so might think about trying in Moscow once I'm there. London and back twice is a bit of a pain in the rear.

It's definitely the Narva-Ivangorod crossing that I've read about folks crossing over, coming to a stop sign and being asked for a ticket and when they didn't have one being asked for "fine". Someone on a (forum somewhere) stated that once you cross over you need to look out for a petrol station and there's a hut where you get one for peanuts and saves the hassle.

I read about the crossing procedure on the Estonian side - booking it online etc., holding area and then going over.

I'll certainly PM you once I've got my schedule sorted.

At the moment - after realising that my current riding gear isn't really going to cut it, i.e. the leather jacket is going to be roasting in a European summer along with my 3 seasons (or I thought so) gloves, which the manufacturers catalogue shows as Winter gloves, LOL - I'm one with finding a textile jacket and some more gloves.

Thankfully found some Ixon summer gloves. Same protection, etc as my current Ixon gloves for 30GBP as opposed to 80-100GBP that I paid for my existing ones.

I think I'll take both pairs along.

Going to check out some mesh textile jackets on tomorrow, so see how that goes.