St. Petersburg Day 8.5: The Cruise
After seeing Peterhof, we had a nice cafeteria lunch with the locals and food wasn't all that bad. It wasn't all that good either, but then again, we hadn't left Russia. Near St. Isaac's Cathedral, we hopped on a boat to take a tour of the city. Naturally, they only had a Russian guide (told you they're not tourist-friendly) so our guide comes along just to translate.You absolutely must must must do this. The city is amazing to see from the water - all of the bridges and canals are almost all original and best of all, it doesn't stink!
We split up with Akshay and Priyali since they wanted to go shopping while we thought we'd climb 250 flights of stairs to see the "best view from St. Petersburg". I should have saved my 100 rubles and my energy - the view wasn't much though we kept taking pictures anyway to make it sulit. Of course, Raffy and Ezer hatched the grand masterplan to tell Akshay and Priyali the view was excellent just to make them jealous. Haha! I don't think they believed us. :)
By the time we got to the Church of Spilled Blood (because someone's blood was spilled inside), we'd almost run out of cash. Money flies out of your pockets so quickly in this country.
We should have saved some money for the souvenier bazaar right across the church, since we all ended up buying at least 2 Russian nesting dolls as pasalubong. This is Raffy not missing any chance to take pictures of the local pretty girls, who happened to be our salesgirls. We promised we'd email them the pics but Raffy lost the email addy, so I hope they bump into my blog one day. :)
posted by moan @ 11:30 PM
1 Comments:
sheesh its super super fun to read these posts after all this time.... thanks for capturing them and u still owe me our russia pics!
ezer
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