anyone been to St Petersburg?

What does a decimal place or two mean anyway?

0.1% (that's the percentage of St. Petersburg's population that were counted as Polish in the 2002 census)

I ought to welcome you all to page two.
I've never been to St. Petersburg.
I never went to Leningrad either...
or Petrograd...
or Nyenskans...
or whatever that area was called before anything was built.

Someone on PF has (I'm referring now to the place before the first plank of wood was laif, even of Swedish fort which eventually... you get the idea). Anyway, if you read this thread closely, you will see that he used a rude word somewhere, which suprised me just a little.

Been there lots of times.
Very nice beach, white sand, clean ocean.

yes....

(...geez....i behave, i mean 'talk', like out local dog....yes....)

;)

I love that looong bridge that crosses to Tampa.

they have nice kotlet meals in Sahara restaurant in St. Petersburg....yumnmmm...;)

Next time I go there I'll try it out. Sounds good.
Best time to go in the winter, it's nice and warm there.

I've been to Peterborough. Does that count?

see ya there girly :)


i went always on summer and came back red like a red piggy ;)

I spent four weeks there. Loads of photos and stories. Amazing city.

Really? Happy to hear it. How did you like people there? Would you post some pics?

Are you from St. Petersburg, Sasha?


The people were really nice, helpful, open and friendly.
Too many guys on the pull though haha ;)


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I think Russia is a place i would love to visit, however i've heard it is expensive and really hard to get a Permit to enter the country. I remember when all the football fans went across to Moscow, there was all sorts of trouble in getting permits etc and some of the stories about the authorities!!!!


some nice photo's there :) i can assume you did not take them yourself?? or am i wrong

It's not as easy as with the EU countries, but it's not really hard. It wasn't that difficult for me... I just needed an invitation from the company that organised my stay there and the visa wasn't very expensive.


Arghh you're not the first one to assume the photos aren't mine! I just wonder why... Do I look like an unskilled photographer? :P

I did take them myself. What's more, I did it using a fairly sh!tty camera ;))
Seems I'm just talented :P hahaha

seems like you had an easy ride, probably something to do with the company invatiation like you said.


lol, i forgot about your photography skills its been that long since i've spoken to you, hehe.


modest then :):):):)

nice to see you again, well your text anyway :)

Nope I'm 650 km to the East, i.e. from Moscow. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your staying there. Next time we're wainting for you in Moscow to feel the difference (I hope not in terms of people's politness)... Pics are very nice. Did you manage to see "belie nochi" (so-called "white nights")?


Torny, from what I heard at least for Americans it's not a problem to get Russian visa. I suspect same is for the Great Britain (am I right that you're from the GB?)

I've already been to Moscow. I didn't manage to 'feel the difference' though because I spent only a couple of days there.


Not this year. But I visited St. Petersburg last year as well and managed to see the white nights then... :)

Moscow as a financial center of Russia with considerably higher salaries has much more immigrants from the former USSR and from other Russian cities thus you don't always feel good being the part of all this crowd. It's definitely not a peace&quiet place. I can't say I belong in Moscow. :)

Moscow is considered the most expensive city in the world...right?
:)

I guess it is right. :) In a certain way staying in the US in comparison to Moscow makes me feel like "back in the USSR" when everything was very cheap.

Where do you belong then? :)

First and foremost the way I feel is strongly determined by my surroundings, people around me, my friends. Expressing my view on Moscow I only meant that was not the best place to live at discounting friends I have here.