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Memorial wanderings

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

  It truly was quite a challenge to even come up with some sort of comprehensive plan to fully explore a city as diverse and interesting as St Petersburg.  Like all the truly great cities history is layered on top of history and new ideas and movements are incorporated or overlaid and the build up becomes a little bewildering to keep your bearings as to what relates to what exactly through time.  The way it has worked out is that kind of naturally everything has worked out into themed days.  One man made this a whole lot easier for our second to last day in the city, this was to be our first real encounter with some of the results of Stalin’s extreme paranoia and prejudice. [read on]

Cultural grind

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

All I can recall of Tuesday through to mid afternoon is lying of my top bunk wishing the world would stop trying to force its way into my head in quite so insistent a manner.  With a pressing list of cultural sights to be seen in a city that was already making a very strong case to be included in a favourites list this was no occasion to sit at home and feel sorry for myself.  So when Rdoc and Arny had returned from lunch we ventured out into the, hopefully unseasonably, cold. [read on]

Consistency explained.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Riga.  (For the help of German customs officers it is the capital city of a country you have invaded more times than a Bush has landed troops in the Middle East.) There are moments when the daunting prospect of Russia looms ... [Continue reading this entry]