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St. Petersburg Slideshow
Travel Blogs from St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The magnificent Hermitage
This is a top pick! ... which I hope you all enjoy! After wandering the Hermitage for hours we were hungry and stumbled on a Russian franchise we'd spotted all around Moscow and St Petersburg. It’s called Teremok which is a modern Russian food outlet. They mainly do greasy ...
A few days in St Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... pieces that you could literately touch them. Not that this would be wise to do, it would probably extend your visit to St Petersburg indefinitely, but anyways. We found it well worth the time visiting the Hermitage, yes it is a big tourist attraction, ...
Long, long, long train ride
This is a top pick! ... days? That was the very first thing I wrote in a diary some seven months and 30,000km back. So here's the grey, dandying around St Petersburg, the most beautiful city in the world, bar none, game over, hang the gloves up, a city of angels, when ...
St. Petersburg for White Nights
This is a top pick! ... have to go back another time to see the Armory! I get to to the airport, which is no easy task, and head to St. Petersburg a few hours late. Getting in very late, I find my hotel by around 10:30pm, but am confused because it is still so light ...
The Man Who Sold The World
This is a top pick! ... out flowers and champagne to all visitors, especially those from the Middle East... We had a pretty shitty overnight bus ride from Tallin to St Petersburg, made worse by the fact that my seat didn't have a lock on the hinge, so if I leant back I ended ...
Our tour
This is a top pick! ... , I won't go into it all here but it too is splendid. The Russian people suffered greatly during the Second World War and St Petersburg alone lost 1.5 million people, mostly women and children. Bread was made up with sawdust and glue and many of the ...
Sightseeing in St Petes
This is a top pick! ... the hope that we may return to some news of our luggage. We decided to have breakfast out...something we won't be doing again since St Petersburg is a very expensive city - £17 for one tea, one coffee, one orange juice and a croissant!!!! So, that will ...
St Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... overhead when we got out of the church so we decided to start heading home. There is quite a distance between metro stations in St Petersburg and the heavens opened up almost as soon as we were out on the street. We were hit by huge rain ...
Russian to St Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... well as seeing the main sights and learning some basic russian phrases, much easier than a phrase book!) All the attractions in st petersburg are close together and within walking distance during our guiuded tour we had most of them pointed out to us ...
To Russia with love
This is a top pick! ... every day of the year. It's a beautiful city and one can't help but be impressed with the generous roadways and footpaths, it seems very well laid out for traffic, and with a population of 4.6million people in St Petersburg traffic is a big ...
We've arrived in Russia...our rucksacks haven't!!
This is a top pick! ... to thank everybody who came to the train station to see us on our way...what a send off!! Fantastic :-) Our journey to St Petersburg via Helsinki was pretty uneventful....even though I am convinced we got far too close to another plane that was travelling ...
Look its been snowing
This is a top pick! ... pressure tablets, the laptop, DVD player, portable footspa and the malaria tablets. All now considered a luxury. We will update on what St Petersburg is like sometime tomorrow when we are less tired. For tea tonight we have had 1 Litre of Yogurt, a bag ...
That is some Serious Art
This is a top pick! ... little bit lost, taking a wrong turn somewhere as we always seem to do. It was good though as we got to see a side of St Petersburg off the tourist strip. We also saw the statute of Nicholas I and once back on Nevsky Prospect, the statue of Catherine ...
Culture Vultures
This is a top pick! ... for vodka tasting tonight. Would like to go to a pub but cant afford a beer as they are almost 3 pound. Felt quite safe in St Petersburg and not as dodgy as we thought, quite a few people have had to bribe the police, we adopt the head down, no eye ...
Ice dodging
This is a top pick! ... edit: Not all the left over pancakes (though some of you might believe it) only two! Went for a quick walk around St Petersburg and took in the following sights: Church of our Savior on spilled blood The Hermitage Eternal flame symbolising the siege of ...
From Russia With Love
This is a top pick! ... , because I like being purposely vague and also because our new found friends will be reading, I'll leave with some "Quotes from St Petersburg"..... "Australians eat their young" "If that woman gets up and dances on the table I'm going to be sick" ...
The Benzodiapine haze
This is a top pick! ... time and hence tend to build up over a few days, especially if you are taking a couple too many. I remember bits of Saint Petersburg, a few nights out, a great walking tour, the amazing summer palace, I think I even went on a date with a Russian girl ...
It Begins!
This is a top pick! ... and sound last night and on time. Got picked up from the airport and taken to our homestay not far from the centre of St Petersburg. Are staying with a widow called Irina who is very nice and cooks great food for us. Any attempt that we may have to ...
Update from St Petersburg with photos!
This is a top pick! ... ) - narrowly avoided a major international incident when my towel fell off on the way to the shower! It feels a lot more genuine Russian experience than staying in one of the 5* hotels (yes I have to keep telliing Emma that!) Today is a lot warmer ...
St Petersburg and Moscow
This is a top pick! An early morning start and we on our way by train from Helsinki to St Petersburg. Russian border control is as strict as ever and we eventually make it into St Petersburg 6 hours later. We are greeted by Marc's Russian friend, Dmitry, who he used to ...
Living in a Squat
This is a top pick! ... the train we wandered down Nevsky Prospect, past Admiralty Gardens and onto the famous Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman statue. St Petersburg is definitely a beautiful city. We walked past St Isaac's Cathedral and along the frozen river. At this time ...
Ballet and all in St. Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... . We both loved it and I think Ryan is forever changed to enjoy ballet performances with live orchestra's going forward. Visiting St. Petersburg and seeing a classic ballet performed in the Hermitage Theatre is a dream come true and an absolute must for ...
The Curse Of St Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... had been paid for in a rather final and un refundable way that we realised we had also bought tickets to Moscow from St Petersburg - which we already had..... But under the circumstances we were still happy with the result. It may have taken four ...
St. Petersburg, the Hermitage and Odd Breakfasts
This is a top pick! ... combined losses of around 700,000 in the entire Second World War. Ellen had been hounding me to death when we arrived St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) about concealing the fact that we are tourists. "They'll take advantage of us. Even the police are ...
St Pete's - it's all a festive blur
This is a top pick! ... structures, so much so that the Germans used the spire of the fortress as a sighting target during the seige of Leningrad (as St Petersburg was named back then). Still, it's an attractive building glowing gold in the gloaming. We couldn't get in to the ...
In Soviet Russia..... Vodka drink you!
This is a top pick! ... /etc. Oh and the Russian border guards are everything you imagine them to be, furry hats and all.... At about 7am we reached St Petersburg, we got the metro to the right station using our pro cyrillic writing skills, the metro station we got on at puts ...
White nights continue
This is a top pick! ... spot and meet up with Veronika, another couch surfing contact, who takes me to a museum exploring the scary history of St. Petersburg's founding and development. The coolest part of our brief time together was the hall of mirrors. We ...
Ra Ra Rasputin
This is a top pick! Well, Russia and more specifically St Petersburg. As I said in the previous entry, actually getting to Russia was something neither Kat nor I expected to achieve in our wildest dreams. To be honest until I crossed that border I didn't think we were going ...
Peter and Paul Fortress
This is a top pick! ... in the middle. The St Peter's and St Paul's Cathedral was very ornate but we enjoyed the exhibition The History of St. Petersburg in the old Commandant's House After hours of wandering through the museum and being watched we walked across Troitsky ...
Russia
This is a top pick! ... annd organised for a "Buddy" in each town to show us around. On the train from Helsinki to St Petersburg we had our first "Russian Experience"... Just before the border a foreign exchange trolley came along the train. Everybody was changing money, so ...