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Last day in St. Petersburg
... such as balls, formal dinners, and masquerades. The hall was painted in two colors and covers an area of approximately 1,000 square meters. Occupying the entire width of the palace, the windows on the eastern side look out onto the park while the windows of the western side look out to the palace plaza. In the evening, 696 lamps are lit on 12-15 chandeliers located near the mirrors. The halls sculptural and gilded carvings and ornimantation were ...
Nearly the end
... I have ever stayed.
The stops on the way, Irkutsk was a good stop with plenty to see. Krasnoyarsk was a good stop for me but nothing to see. Kazan great Kremlin but not much else. Suzdal was asleepy little town with lots to se and just relax. Moscow was not as expensive as I expected and it is everything it is sopposed to be. St Petersburg just blew me away. There is sooo much to see here. Most is reproduced after WW II and not much older ...
A day at the Winter Palace
... Russian girl, we danced the Waltz Marie to celebrate our being there.
It was evening by the time we emerged and we decided to get some dinner. Our first choice restaurant was binned because it was too smoky – we forget about the smoking situation being from the UK, they take a very different attitude to it here. We ended up in a place called Kalinka Malinka which served traditional Russian food. It was ...
Monday Begins on Saturday
... wherever they could fall and still pick up a shockingly dark tan. It was quite a sight, shall we say.
I love elektrichka rides, because they provide such good people watching opportunities. On the way out to Gatchina, there were two young guys who got on. It seemed that only one had a ticket, and the conductor busted the other. After trying to make eyes at her (she was only in her 20s), he realized it was a losing ...
Kissing the Golden Peacock in St Petersburg
As planned first are the final pics from Moscow
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The train ride was made under clear skies and across great stretches of forrest, rural land and dotted with mostly wooden houses / shacks. The last time I did this train journey was in 1991 and in a much less fast train. I think the trip was either 8 or 12 hours then and the cabin ( with doors) had bench seating while ...