Comments on: Saint Petersburg

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:38:23 +0000

Ha! We’re just heading off to walk along the river to Gorky Park. Picking up our train tickets tomorrow, The Kremlin & Red Square on Tuesday.
Haven’t seen any birch brooms yet, maybe they have all traded them in on those broom/long-handled dustpan combos

By: ron

ron — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 01:51:32 +0000

Judy I would think there is more gold in Russian teeth than in Fort Knox another thing to see if it is still going is the Moscow Circus another would be a show of Cossack dancing a place not to miss RED SQUARE enjoy.hope they have given away Birch Brooms for sweeping the pavements .

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:17:16 +0000

The sting is fine now thanks Margaret. Just a bit itchy. We’ll write a post about our visit to the Hermitage soon. It was amazing!

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:13:21 +0000

St Petersburg = Petrograd = Leningrad = Санкт-Петербург
That last one is in Cyrillic, but I’m not sure if it will show up correctly.
The toilet in the hotel we’re staying at seems a bit borderline, but okay, so far.
The trolley buses are old, but probably newer than the ones you saw, and they do have a couple of modern features that we don’t get in ADL – digital display of the next stop – in cyrillic, but still … – and multiple ticket validators spread throughout the bus. Plus one old feature that we haven’t seen on ADL buses in decades – a conductor to sell tickets! The one who sold us tix yesterday afternoon had a very impressive set of gold front teeth!
We’re planning on going to the memorial today, it’s raining this morning but will hopefully clear up later.

By: Margaret & Derick Smith

Margaret & Derick Smith — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 05:50:20 +0000

Judy, this is so interesting. Hope your bee sting is OK because heaven knows what it would be like there if you needed medical treatment. However .i’m sure you and Greg can cope . Take care and have a good day xx

By: ron

ron — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:09:00 +0000

Welcome to Russia it seems nothing has change in 32 years since Fay and I where there B obstreperous people the trolley buses are the same ca lour but then they where junk heaps t hen their was no food in the shops so now at least they have food the lifts the toilets didn’t work do they now ?? but great architecture in the old buildings have you been to the Memorial to half a million dead from the second world war very moving well worth a visit I am sure you will have more great appearances before you leave the USSR did you know it used to called Leningrad