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Pushkin + Palace
This entry will be brief, because we are recounting the previous day. We got into Riga, Latvia, late last night and will update about today in the next entry.
Our final day in St. Petersburg was a whirlwind. We headed out in the morning for Pushkin, a suburb and the location of Catherine's Palace. Yes, another one of those. This one was the busiest location we had yet visited, with tour buses and large groups everywhere. Like ...
Adventures of 12 Portuguese in St.Petersburg
I want your excuses in advance – I'm not a traveler, I'm a tourist guide. I have no license, I'm not a professional - normally I work as a translator and interpreter. This means I don't have an excursion every 3 days, and I find something to discover in the places where I happen to take my tourists, and this something can make a story to tell. This one is about the adventures of 12 Portuguese who visited ...
Labor Day weekend
Anecdote #5: City-wide spring cleaning. Spring cleaning is a concept that they take very seriously here. As soon as the snow and rain stopped in mid-April there were workers in all the parks and green spaces raking and laying out new soil. As the month progressed I noticed more and more little repairs being done around the city: new plants, fresh coats of paint on fences and planters, street cleaning (as I mentioned before). A lot of the buildings get their ...
#303 In Saint Petersburg
We have arrived in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia! Previously called Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, and Petrograd, the city is again named Saint Petersburg or informally, Peter. The first thing we did was to make our way to the Hermitage Museum. The Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings including the Winter ...
Russia!
We take the Sibelius (the Finnish composer) train from Helsinki to St. Petersburg. It all goes amazingly well, no visa or customs problems (which Rick was really expecting). Lynn meets some guy from Detroit with a Human Remains Team jacket who is going to Russia for his 4th time (but with his wife) and he talks (nicely enough) about how different Russia is and how much he like it....give us advice like keep your wallet in your front pants pocket and don't ...