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A Welcoming Comrade.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

 I had quite mixed feelings about leaving St Petersburg having found that nearly everything about the city exceeded my expectations and also found an atmosphere and scene in the city that I would really love to immerse myself in.  But at the same time the anticipation of delving even further into this fascinating country was pulling me eastwards, not least because tonight was to be the first proper train ride after two weeks of not quites.   After last night’s practise run seeing off Mike and Jeff we headed out one last time around our local favourites of the laundromat bar, Zoom cafe for one last delicious meal, followed by Fidels and Achtung Baby to fill the time until our 1:20am departure for Moscow. [read on]

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]

Administrative changes

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Fine(d) in St Petersburg

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Less than an hour in Russia proper and I have already been fined by a very severe looking railway official.  The crime was taking a photo of an, on reflection kind of average, wall mosaic of Lenin.  The site Finland ... [Continue reading this entry]

Asleep at the game.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
"I will not be jet-lagged!" "I will not be jet-lagged!" I kept repeating this mantra in the hope that the force of will would change reality.  One early night for recovery might be acceptable but requiring two, come on.  Having made the ... [Continue reading this entry]