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St Pete's
St Petersburg, or "St Pete's", as our walking tour guide used to annoyingly call it, was a nice stop. The town itself was modelled on European towns of 18th century, and so looks more like Paris or Prague, than any other russian towns we visited. The city is huge, and in 4 days, we didn't manage to see everything we wanted to, but we did manage to …
Peter the Great et al
... in. - We passed Putin's humongus mansion, but he wasn't home. -Peter the Great really was Great! -Peter was very European focused. Went to Holland to learn ship building and got his country a Baltic port. -Peter build a phenomenal summer palace called Peterhof. He modeled it on Versailles. The fountains and the park were unbelievable. Peter was a tricky guy - he created trick fountains that soaked his noble guests ( not just anyone could get an invite to Peterhof). ...
Ballerinas and a Day off
... she's the reason my feet have blisters. She must walk as fast as the cars in this city. Her english is better than my russian, but she talks too fast so our conversation can get hilarious at times. She is sort of a gypsy type and quite a charmer. Her husband was a Russian officer, but died in a car wreck a few years back. His father is a retired Russian general. Hmmmm...better be careful here.
So a couple days ago we were truckin' ...
Санкт-Petersburg
... tsar was trying to out-do the gardens of Versailles. Our guide took us on a tour all over the gardens with the dozens and dozens of huge fountains. Very beautiful. We were lucky to have such good weather and also, we there on one of the last days before the fountains shut down for the winter. There were huge fountains and quite comically, a lot of trick fountains. I guess tsar could have a sense of humor, too. lol. It was neat too, ...
Bread and Circuses
... minimic a body of water, and the performers slid out in it. It also had the added benefit of making the entire tent smell like freshly-washed laundry.
Bread and Circuses. Often referring to some sort of superficial appeasement, I've been giving it some thought recently. Life in Russia was tough, and it's tough now for a lot of people. It's a totally scizophrenic society, one in which there are so many rules that people don't listen to any of them. People ...
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