Thread: Going to petersburg in march!

As for VM, I dunno why he thinks you should stay away from the marsh route cars - you always meet a lot of interesting people in those things.

Well, I dunno how it is in St. Petersburg but in Almaty you usually get stuck in a bowed position in a crush inside "those things". So I really try to "avoid marsh route cars like the plague"

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by DDT

Try vegemite!

ужас!

Note to self: ... " ужас!" is Russian for "Yummy"

Tour St. Isaak's Cathedral. Go up to the roof, count your steps.

Take a hydrofoil up to Peterhof.

Take a day trip out to the Katherine Palace in the town of Pushkin (Царское село).

Go on the Аврора cruiser.

takenty a look:

http://www.waytorussia.net/TalkLounge/c ... on607.html

http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular ... golSights/

http://www.43places.com/places/view/103815

http://petersburgcity.com/city/photos/r ... on/places/


Don't forget that there are a lot of nazzi and skinheads in every dark corner in this city, so if you look like a Tajik or have a tiny daughter who looks like a tiny Tajik, you'd better not appear on the streets both.

http://www.vladimirpeople.com/forums/if ... 5212b8a347

Even the great child Soviet poet K. Chukovsky wrote:
"Как ты смеешь тут ходить, по-турецки говорить? Крокодилам тут гулять воспрещается."


http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/ch ... a-byl.html

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Order champaign and orange juice, then mix them together (it freaks some people out)

You must be mistaken, not juice but vodka or cognac, so you'll got cocktails "северное сияние" or "бурый медведь" correspondingly :)

Go to a bazaar, buy a mink hat and a pocket watch along with assorted militaria and a matroshka of Russian leaders. Assuming you have a competent control of Russian you won't get ripped off too badly. Even then, your fat UK pocketbook can take the hit.

Originally Posted by net surfer

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Order champaign and orange juice, then mix them together (it freaks some people out)

You must be mistaken, not juice but vodka or cognac, so you'll got cocktails "северное сияние" or "бурый медведь" correspondingly

That should be respectively not correspondingly

Vadim84, oh, thanks!

Just today


В Петербурге в последние дни совершено несколько нападений на иностранцев: гражданина Республики Кот-д'Ивуар, а также двух гражданок Киргизии казахского происхождения. Одна из женщин, получившая более 20 ножевых ранений, скончалась на месте.

http://www.vesti.ru/news.html?id=87167

Of course, you may consider some other city to visit, but not Moscow either. Here you can be buried under a crumbling roof in some swimming pool or market building.

http://lenta.ru/news/2006/02/23/newcentre/

You can mar everything.