St Petersburg Hostel Na Sadovoy St. Petersburg

... 1000 rubles. I just can't get enough of aubergine; all the grilled vegetables in Russia are divine.

We then finally made it to the river, after a long walk down Nevsky Prospect, and then decided to walk along it to try and find the Vodka Museum. On the way we passed the amazing Cathedral and I desperately wanted to look inside but it was closed. There were lots of random pictures and writings in the Museum, but all the descriptions were in Russian so we had to ...

... are crass - isn't there a dress code for this place? - and others are so, so elegant.  One older man arrives with a big box of Veuve Clicquot champagne to accompany his meal (good taste!) and he and his party get down to the serious business of imbibing.  For a minute, I want to run over and join them.  Never pass up the opportunity for a good Veuve!  I listen to the conversation of the two men nearest to me.  I think they're businessmen, and I honestly do not ...

... tourist place. Mostly Russian tourists go there. There are so many palaces surrounding St. Petersburg and Gatchina Palace is probably the least impressive of them. Only about 1/3 of it has been renovated and a larger part of it remains unmaintained and somewhat in ruins from damage done during WWII. What is most appealing to me is that it seems like a real look into a palace, more so than an overly renovated palace. It feels like in a way that you're the first ...

... and when Mr. Wide dropped his glasses and bent over to pick them up ¡­ well let¡¯s just say my view was blocked again (by his ¡°big backside¡±¡­ ugh! After the show we returned home for bed. Today we experienced buying an iron in a Russian department store. We tried to fix her iron with melted shirt on it and even though we did a pretty good job (it would work just fine), it still had a few marks on. So, we decided that it was only fair to get her a ...

March 19 I woke up, with Andrea, at 7:13 A.M. In the morning we ate at our favorite breakfast, which was Café 1913. We had delicious hotcakes. They were steaming hot when it came out of the kitchen. They had delicious maple syrup. If didn't know any better I thought it came straight from Canada. After breakfast, we went to Mikhailovsky. Mikhailovsky use to be a castle but was later turned into a museum. This museum is one of the most ...

... lunch - we chose lunch because a museum would not have been the same without your excellent commentary). In an almost comical scene, here was a lady who didn't speak English, giving directions to two guys who didn't speak Russian, but fortunately we had a map, and fortunately I did a creditable enough job pronouncing Karavan that she pointed out our way, though I did have concerns that we'd end up in southern Uzbekistan. After a ten minute walk, we found the restaurant in ...

... is out and about, people stay out on the streets until the morning. The White Nights allows them to feel like the night never ends. There are shows on the side walks, we even whitnessed a Fashion Show on one of the main Metro Stations on Nevsky Prospekt. There are many things to do, and the city is just beautiful. The people are sweet and helpful, never have I had any kind of rejection when I have needed help. Anywya, I'm just falling in love with this place.

... he didn't trust anyone, most especially his mother (who killed his father and took power). He feared assassination so much, that he built his bedroom with only one entrance, so nobody could get to him - unfortunately when they threw a bomb in his room, he couldn't get out either - oops!! The other great view from here is the church on the spilt blood. This is where the tsar Alexander the first was killed. They threw a bomb in his carriage ...