Saint Petersburg Travel Blogs - Page 8

THE CITY IS HOME TO WORLD-CLASS MUSEUMS AND STUNNINGLY OPULENT PALACES AND ALSO HAS LIVELY CLUB AND MUSIC SCENE AND MAIN RUSSIAN SHOPPING THROUGHFARE "NEVSKY PROSPEKT".

La fin de l'Odysée Russe...   Triste, mais pas tant que ça.  Ce fût trop bref, un thème récurrent pour moi cet été, mais je suis content de passer à autre chose.  Pas que je n'ai pas aimé la Russie, loin de là d'ailleurs, mais elle a un don de jouer sur les nerfs. Sau…

August 2003

Traveling to Russia in 1994, the scene was pretty grim. Our tourguide summed it up as follows, "There are three things to do in Russia: drink, commit suicide, or leave Russia." We gave her a huge tip at the end of the trip. These days, there are more options. Seeing those lovely girls of t.A.t.U. a…

Only a year ago, this was still Leningrad.  I’m awed by the sites, particularly the Hermitage, where originals by Van Goh, Rembrandt, etc are hung without any obvious protection, while babushkas napped in the corners of the rooms.  In a guilty moment of impulse I touch my fingers to a c…

I am looking forward to my next trip here. I definitely want to spend more time at the railway museum.

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In 2000 I started to travel around the EurAzian continent. Not in one vacation ofcourse, there is work waiting for me at home, but in leg of 6 weeks. Every journey is about 3000 km long.

Na een erg leuk verblijf in Moskou (de laatste dag goed gevierd door flink te feesten in de disco) stond mijn treinreis alweer gepland voor st. Petersburg. Na een kleine 6 uurtjes kwam ik hier aan, ik wist de plaats van het hostel makkelijk te vinden.....maar het hostel was bij deze bestemming onvi…

These pictures were taken when I took a cruise around the Baltic Sea in the summer of 2005.

I've been around the world and I still have many places to visit. But, I hope my pictures will inspire people to go and see some of the things that I have seen.

Destinations and places I´ve visited - friends I´ve met - during my stay abroad in Finland in 2006...

Got up bright and early at 5.30am…..not fun!!! Decided to flag the taxi idea totally and walk over to the new town and catch a tram, still loads of snow but not as blustery as the day before. Managed to find tram stop fairly easily and after a bit of a telling off by the driver for not having t…