Originally Posted by DDT
I have an adapter. I just left it in my flat!
The airport was not busy and I was surprised how little traffic there was......that is until we got into a certain part of St Petes! No one tried to get me to take their taxi etther, only one guy even asked me, while I was standing on the curb.
Well, I wandered around Nevsky Prospect last night. It is really a happening place, St Petes. The people in general are great. They look good too! I feel more at home here than I do in New York or Los Angeles. For me, it is certainly not cold, yet! I am used to spending entire days outside on the back of a horse in 30 below zero degrees Fahrenheit weather. Perhaps in January I will feel the cold.
I have a cell phone and a Metro Pass thingy and no one has asked me for my Passport or beat me up. From the look of things so far, there is more chance of that happening in L.A. or somewhere else. The one rumour that is true is that ....all Russian chicks are hot! As a matter of fact...let me take that back. I don't any more people coming here to ruin things!
Nobody speaks English to me, not even the people in whom's home I am staying. Well one bar tender last night spoke a little. At the school I am attending it is forbidden for even students to speak in their native languages. If they are heard talking English or so, there is a jar that they must put a few coins in as a fine. I must be blending in well because several people have stopped me on the street to ask me directions.
Also I have not seen anyone named "VendingMachine"
The only thing that has bothered me is the legless soldier who get on the metro train, standing straight backed on two stumps and announces, "Помогете мне, пожалуйста!" People immediately take out a few roubles and give it to him. Doesn't the government take care of their wounded soldiers?