St Petersburg Restaurants

This was a quick trip to st. Petersburg for a conference, but we did get a little time to go around the city, Some fun restaurants, freezing boat ride through the canals, and of course to the Hermitage

... ! The place is full of palaces and museums and most have a decent line up to get in. For example, the Hermitage, the showcase museum of St Petersburg, had a line up of an hour plus to get in. St Petersburg is also known as the "Venice of the North" due to ...

... to do this trip again I would skip the Russian Waterways and focus on the cities and towns. Especially, of course, Moscow and St. Petersburg. One thing that struck all of us were the number of new, expensive cars that clog the streets. There were few ...

...  Gallery and the Yusopov Palace were my favourites and for grim the Museum of the Siege was very informative. After leaving St Petersburg I stayed three nights in Berlin which is an amazing city obviously also with some terrible memories. I spent a ...

... good sleep with mask on to counter the "White Night" shining through the gap in the curtains. Walking 16 kms Thursday 9 June St Petersburg Light comes in pretty early, but we manage to sleep through to about 9 before going down for a pretty ...

... lovely to look at from the outside - very different from most of the baroque and neo-classical architecture of St Petersburg and instead deliberately copying Mediaeval Russian architecture like that of St Basil's in Moscow.  From there we ...

... a company called Monkey Shrine who organises the tour (tickets, accommodation & transport) so we booked the whole journey (St Petersburg - Beijing) through them.  We had paid about €1500 including all accommodation, transport, some pick up ...

... 't used it before..its very good! It actually might be our saviour on this trip. So yesterday (Saturday), we walked around St. Petersburg and I found it very intimidating...perhaps having a bit of a culture shock seeing as Russians don't smile, and can't ...

Wednesday, August 09, 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia (Completed after return to Chicago) Dear Readers: I find that I am totally unable to sleep in the lurching train compartment with someone I don't know. At some point I need to get up to go to the ...

... beautiful. I (Lisa) had always imagined the palace covered in snow - it was not to be on a warm summer's day in St. Petersburg! One thing we immediately noticed was how expensive everything was, so that evening, in an effort to stick to our budget, we ...

... 's a shame really). Anyway, after the church/museum, Ho-Ki and I did what any sensible guys would do on their last day in St Petersburg, we found a covered sidewalk cafe to watch the people to by, and THEN we had a couple of beers, and of course watch ...

... pick up my passport with a shiny new work visa in it.  It was cold in Syktyvkar, but man, it was really snowy in St. Petersburg!  But they didn't close the airports or even delay the flights.  I guess they've gotten used to landing on ...

... and so woke up the poor girl on night shift. After a few hours of sleep we decided to wander about the city.   St Petersburg is a very different city from Moscow. It seemed like the entire central part of the city was 18th or 19th century ...

... , herring salad, and trout pancake, all very yum! We also discovered that the Germans had done their best to destroy St Petersburg along with Peterhof, thankfully they failed and, thanks to over a thousand volunteers, Peterhof was restored in little time. ...

... of the famous palaces and parks.  The dome churches are something to admire, many of them are plated with gold.  St. Petersburg is an international city filled with designer shops and ethnic restaurants.  Add Moscow to the mix and what you ...

... his meals!   Before I finish this blog I want to write down the general picture I got from this visit here in St. Petersburg.     I had the chance to chat with locals and most of these people want to run away giving an opportunity to their ...

... mother's cooking was wonderful, it was the restaurants that weren't awesome]. But the feel of the place is unexplainable. It is magical. St. Petersburg is beautiful, it's fine. But it lacks the feeling of Moscow. I think maybe it is "The Master and ...

... pretty so just looking around them was good enough maybe.  Many of buildings have bright pastel colours which reminded me Denmark.  St Petersburg is really the gate to the West. After the boat trip, we popped in a restaurant for a little bite ...

... , like little death chambers nearly devoid of oxygen.  Logan laughed and replied "We have those in Russia too! They're called restaurants.")   The more I think of it, the more it makes a sick sort of sense.  With all the pollution ...

... ourselves in the middle of the Fast and Furious 5 premiere last night - lots of girlies wearing very little standing around ;o). I love St Petersburg. Oh one last thing. As we walked around the Neva River we came across a big old fashioned Pirate Ship - ...