Gostiny Dvor St. Petersburg

Day 3 - arrived SPB around 6pm, took a walk around Nevskiy Prospekt. Was planning to have dinner at this supposed to be famous Literaturnaya Cafe but there was a private party, damn! I walk for half an hour for this, but be back tomorrow. Had dinner in a cafe next door instead, the beef stroganoff was good! Oh and did I mention that it was freezing …

... Russia After our day in the St. Petersburg suburbs we headed out for a laid back evening in St. Petersburg.   We visited a Russian grocery store, we strolled along Nevsky Prospect, the main shopping street in St. Petersburg, ...

Off to Nevsky Prospect and Gostiny Dvor...the only problem being that this famous St. Petersburg emporium takes up actually a WHOLE block!! So starting off with amber and then lacy Orenburg shawls, I made my way through German leather wallets, ...

... but presumably some Russian and Latvian Customs officers will board the train at some point and scrutinise our passports. St Petersburg was probably friendlier than Moscow, not that we found Moscow unfriendly. In Moscow there was someone selling ...

... visit, so we jumped on the metro and whizzed across to the other side of the river. Once there, we found a miniature model of St Petersburg, took some photos for a lost-looking Australian lad and made our way to the zoo.  Once there, we decided ...

... into a coffee shop briefly to warm up. On the way back I got off at Nevsky metro & into the department store at Gostiny Dvor. I chanced upon a Beeline shop (one of the telephone internet providers) & went in to ask about a sim card. Thankfully ...

  Taking off from Boston, started at 5:30 Wednesday and after reaching Paris and then onto St. Petersburg, I gained a whole day or lost a day, depending on how you look at it. Kathy was already there, having been on an official business trip. She ...

... floor balconies.  Fidel is the memory I have in my mind most clearly, as I have spent more time in and outside it in St Petersburg than sightseeing or indeed back in the hostel. I don't see this as a bad thing, as we have made new friends, talked ...

... below.  Occasionally the rain would beat down and then ease up.  In our hour there, we saw quite the slice of St. Petersburg life go by.  There were children with backpacks - maybe going home for lunch; office workers out for their lunch ...

... ından çizilen bina eski Roma ve Yunan kültürü izlerini taşımaktadır. Adanın bir ucunda St Petersburg devlet üniversitesi,Sanat akademisi,Deniz müzesi gibi binalar yer almaktadır.70 li yıllarda burayı ...

... ; Traditional meals: Nikolaevskaya Trapeza: is a unique Russian meal. It's reindeer cutlet that you can try in St. Petersburg.   Panorama Restaurant: Russian Cuisine. It has great food, with an even better view of St. Petersburg. The main dishes ...