Rossiya Hotel St. Petersburg
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Comrades welcome to this, the start of your tour yes? That's what we expected to hear at the airport, but instead it a simple hello - stand over there next to the tall guy under the TV. OK, we are finally here after months of waiting with Simon, Andrea, Dan & Aneta... plus those other people we haven't met yet also standing next to the tall guy …
La ville des tsars
... de métro: parfait c'est ce qui nous manquait pour compléter notre baptême des transports. Malgré les indications données par l'auberge, nous restons perplexes en arrivant devant une porte blindée fermée par un digicode et coincée entre 2 échaffaudages. Crainte encore amplifiée lorsque ladite porte s'ouvre sur un porche décrépit et ...
A bit Petersburg Tong... Part 2
... so food fail No.347 it was... which allowed Rick one last chance to chat up Sonya. I was just happy to have got out and had a laugh in St Petersburg, something I didn't think I could manage after the negativity of the day before.
The problem with these beers being 8 % and not realising it, was that I woke up the next day feeling ******, and I had to check out of the hostel by 12. I saw Rick, who had been informed of the beer percentage. He had to get his train, so ...
Back in the USSR
... to catch some contemporary ballet We really enjoyed the show and I was delighted to have been able to catch ballet in Russia.
We were booked on a night cruise of St Petersburg, but weren’t leaving the hotel until 12:30am. Yes. Half past midnight. We walked to a canal nearby and boarded a small boat which then traversed the canals towards the Hermitage and out into the wide Neva river dividing the city. We had to watch for low bridges along ...
Art, art, more art, and Friday Night Light
... viewed works by: Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Delacroix, Rembrandt, the Dutch Masters, Monet, Picasso, Rafael, and DaVinci, among others. Our guide made sure to escort us to the front of the line whenever needed, and despite whoever else was already there. She was a little more assertive than we are.
We noted that most tour groups originated from Israel, China, and Italy. Hearing other English-speakers, thus far, has not been a very ...