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From Russia with Love
... until after the fall of the Soviet Union. They could not find all the remains for some time, with those of 2 children missing. Rumors began that maybe the children (one of them being Anastasia Romanov, this rumor may be familiar to you) had survived. Alas, just recently, they found the remains of the two remaining children. They are to be entombed in the Peter and Paul fortress within the year.
Next we went to the Hermitage, which ...
Petergof
... to Catherine's Palace in Tsarskoe Selo and will do that when I am back in St Pete next week. There were a couple of Indian tourists guys who were singing as u passed them a few times- next Bollywood flick? Lol. There was the usual Chinese variety taking pictures at a feverish pace and yelling at each other. A resident squirrel paid me a visit by jumping on my pants then onto my bag - twice. It ...
St. Petersburg - the insider tour...on foot
... city told through the vivid imagery and poetic language of Dosteovsky had a profound effect on me. I longed to one time see the places and sights he visited and today, it became a reality. We walked from Sennaya Posad (Haymarket) and along the canal stopping at the apartment where the protagonist lived in (fictional but based loosely on people he knew). Clearly things have changed since that time but it transported us into time ...
White Nights
... check. The agent here boarded to make sure that all of us had the stamp on our Visa page.
Now, I understand there are procedures to follow, but seriously. If this is what is going to happen, I don't know how Russia is going to be able to host the Olympics and the World Cup in the next few years. It was painful getting through. I half expected to be strip searched - not to mention, the ridiculous Visa questions I had already filled out before even getting to that point.
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Kulturschock
... Unterhaltung führen zu können. Die Metro rast mit bahnbrechender Geschwindigkeit durch die Tunnel; circa eine halbe Stunde fahren wir ins Stadtzentrum.
Wir machen es uns zunächst in einem warmen Cafe gemütlich um die neuen Eindrücke erst einmal zu verarbeiten. Danach spazieren wir entspannt durch die Innenstadt und bewundern die unfassbar schönen Gebäude. Der sanft fallende Schnee trägt zu der besonderen Atmosphäre bei. Trotz der Kälte genießen wir den Spaziergang. ...