Atmosphera Mini-hotel Bolshoy 70
Travel Blogs from St. Petersburg
Russie 1
... avec nos eglises,
puis on es aller manger dans un petit resto Japonais, la ou jai tenter de sortir quelque phrase en Russe, bien aprecier par la serveuse, qui ete toute contente, que lon fasse leffort de parler Russe, le russe es tres dure mais pas impossible, alors je vais continuer et essayer de parler un peut plus chaque jour en Russe, pour apprendre, par le suite de ce petit resto je suis rentrer a lapart de Dim
Petite soiree tranquilou le lundi ...
My kinda town
Pete's story:
Despite finishing the Trans Siberian in Moscow, we still weren't done with the trains. The train to St Petersburg takes just under eight hours, so Intrepid decided to go with a late (~12.30), overnight train. Our train was the same style as all the others of the trip, but a lot nicer. Once again we couldn't share with other people on our trip, but our room mates were a lovely Russian couple going on a river cruise around the north of the country ... ...
Pie Making and night walks
... Irena were busy in the kitchen. They had made dough, and a mix of mashed potato, onions and cheese which was going to be made into pies. I thought this sounded great and reckoned that I'd have my tea and cereal (at 2pm yes) then go out and about in the snow. However, I then got involved in the pie making, and then eating, and talking that I didn't make it out in the afternoon. Alla is great, she's a very bubbly lady, she doesn't really speak any ...
God is in the Rain
... entire archway of carved jasper! It was insane.
When I finally stumbled out, sort of dazed, I felt like I had I fell into an entirely different city. There were all the cranky, often cold, sometimes loud people, there were the polluting buses and ******* drivers, but they were nothing. They were the wallpaper pasted over relics. The city had a spirit of its own, and people could tack ...
St. Petersburg, Day 2
... of that knowledge, Peter the Great, who was allegedly a very capable engineer, and 2 architects designed their own gravity-fed system to run the fountains. Towards the end of our tour in the gardens, some of the fountains had begun to be turned on and the effects are stunning.
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood looks like the famous St. Basils cathedral in Moscow on the outside, only less colorful. The onion ...