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St. Petersburg Slideshow
Travel Blogs from St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
More Russian than Russia itself
This is a top pick! ... 20th century must be counted as a kind of revival, a resurrection - Robert Kaiser, Russia: The People and the power (1984) · St Petersburg, Russia · Prague time +2hrs · Days to get to Prague - 8 A fustrated Henk. Now there's a first Taking ...
'anging at the Ermitazh
This is a top pick! After a fast and furious Moscow visit, it was time to move onto a more cultured and sedate St Petersburg. In 1700, this area was still occupied by the Swedes, but Peter the Great had decided that a port and navy were essential to Russia's future, so by ...
Russia!...St Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... to turn when I came out of the metro! Just shows how friendly some Russians are really. When I was sitting having a beer that night a Russian guy asked to sit on the same table as me as there were no other tables available. He also spoke some English, and ...
Ending Our Long Train Journey In Style.
This is a top pick! ... our walking tour would meet us in the foyer at 10.00 am so we went out to find some breakfast and look around. St. Petersburg, by reputation is expensive, aligning itself more to Europe, but we didn't find it to be overly so. A cooked breakfast ...
st petersburg and Moscow
This is a top pick! ... guide and don't forget your passport. heike and i traveled in the same number 30 overnight kupe just in different carriages from st petersburg to Moscow bargain at 12 quid each. Almost forgot spent two night at the hostel all seasons next to a ...
Leningrad
This is a top pick! ... evening to my hostel, the back of my jacket will be full of dry spit! I had this effect in central America as well. St Petersburg, Leningrad, Peteograd, Piter, however you may know this city, I did not know it's the fourth biggest city in Europe! In ...
Off To A Flying Start
This is a top pick! ... . In St Petersburg it's Nika, who is only 18, I'd have never thought she was that young. She knows everything about St Petersburg and is able to answer any question that we have (Although I've probably already forgotten almost everything that she told ...
From Russia With Love
This is a top pick! ... ancient town of beautiful Suzdal in the Golden Ring we left the grandness of Moscow behind, it can be rivalled only by the elegance of St Petersburg. The city which was founded by Peter the Great as a "window to the west", on a swamp only 300 years ago, ...
St Petersburg- Pancakes and panic
This is a top pick! ... (and still is) the home to so many artists, musicians and poets. For me, with my arts background, being in St Petersburg was a big responsibility. There were so many theaters to visit, music performances to see, art galleries to wander through ...
Nevskiy Prospekt and Beyond
This is a top pick! ... by the numerous canals, but I found them lacking the intimacy and charm of those found in European cities. Instead, canals in St. Petersburg were broad promenades where the boats seemed to be on parade and the buildings stood as a backdrop ...
Peter and Paul Fortress
This is a top pick! We had the second day in St. Petersburg to ourselves, so Kathie and I decided to see the Peter and Paul Fortress. We took the bus to the Hermitage and walked across two bridges over two branches of the Neva River to get to Hare's Island where the ...
Delightful Saint Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... early in the morning and set off wandering the town for the next 12 hours. Moscow may have a cathedral that looks like a cake but St Petersburg is like the icing on the cake of our trip through Russia! The city is full of amazing old buildings, palaces, ...
A big Snowy Day out Being Cultural
This is a top pick! ... 1153pm, I aim to get there for 11pm so it shouldn't be too busy for rucksack carriers. We also went looking for Russian hats. I fancied getting myself a proper fur hat. After passing lots of poor quality ones we went into a real hat shop with real ...
An assortment of other pictures...non picturesque
This is a top pick! A little ode to randomness for St Petersburg... Some Pics of the Apple Hostel. My room, the sitting room (the door to the right is one of the showers! and the eccentric shower (please note how the shower is plugged into electricty just to the ...
The last leg of out asian journey.
This is a top pick! ... the city, and buying souvenirs for everyone, we commenced another night of drinking and dancing, because to not dance with the beautiful Russian women would be a terrible shame. On my way home to pack for the airport around 5 in the morning again, and ...
Pie Making and night walks
This is a top pick! ... my hands. I kid you not. Then we ambled back to the hostel and watched a film called Admiral which tells a true story of a Russian naval Officer who headed up the White Army against the Red Army when the revolution happened in the early 1900's. Irena very ...
The Hermitage
This is a top pick! After we finished our lunch of meat-filled pastries, our tour guide Albina led us on to the second half of our day through the Hermitage. The entrance to the Hermitage was at the Winter Palace building, from the side facing the ...
From Helsinki To Russia (or Monday part 2)
This is a top pick! ... up my bed for me and gave mr a towel before ushering me into the kitchen to see if I wanted a drink. I met Irene who is a Russian doctor studying in a physcoatric hospital and living in the hostel in the same room with me. We chatted a while, I told her ...
Catherine's Palace
This is a top pick! ... taking snapshots and videos. We almost didn't come here. By the third day we felt our experience in St. Petersburg was complete, so we decided to visit one of the royal palaces located in the outlying areas. Our first choice ...
Beautiful = Freezing. A Paradox perhaps
This is a top pick! ... so I think we shall have a chat a a drink and gossip about Neil! (only joking Neil!) Some final thoughts and notes on St Petersburg. People: The people here are lovely and friendly, even the ones I've walked up to in the street thrusting a map into ...
Russia 1 Duncan 0
Wow, what a difference a day makes! I can only describe St Petersburg as a backpacker's nightmare. No one here speaks English, there are no information points anywhere and the signs are impossible to read. In stark contrast to the Finns the people here ...
Lovely luscious Leningrad
... my packing. We find some tourist info type boards and manage to locate an information office where we pick up the biggest diamond - St Petersburg in Your Pocket does not leave us for the duration of our stay here. It points us to an internet cafe (Quo ...
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
... . I admit to pass the time, I spent part of my meal pretending I was a rich heiress involved in some shady scheme in high-society St Petersburg. She brought me the menu, and it was all I could do not to jump up and down with delight as she lit the candle ...
Sight seeing - Saint Petersburg!
... ourselves in the middle of the Fast and Furious 5 premiere last night - lots of girlies wearing very little standing around ;o). I love St Petersburg. Oh one last thing. As we walked around the Neva River we came across a big old fashioned Pirate Ship - ...
Robbery in the metro and more...
St. Petersburg, a story itself...! After horrible 9 hours in bus without sleep we arrived St. Petersburg. Even though we went there in April it was quite cold. First we searched our hostel, that was not easy to find. Then we decided to make a ...
ITINERARY - PART III - ST.PETERSBURG
... day before . Meet fellow vodkatrain companions - Thomas Hardy and nurse Sophie from Leeds and Polina our lovely St. Petersburg guide . Rick and I visit Russian State Museum - amazing C19th Russian artists' work . Polina teaches us the etiquette of vodka ...
Mother Russia
... us on our way to the hostel. Very tasty, I know what it means to be a smoker....respect to you guys. Anyway St Petersburg is a lovely city with some spectacular buildings, to name a few the Hermitage, St Isaacs and the Church of the ...
Communist Era Train Travel
... a ticket out of Kazakhstan, and we couldn't get that ticket because you could not buy tickets for trains in Kazakhstan from Russian agents because, because, just because. So for that reason we decided to fly. And the reason we decided to ...