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15-16 Leave Houston, the flight, Frankfurt airport, St Pete airport, taxi ride, the flat, first impressions |
17 A walk along Nevsky; Salvation-on- the-Blood Cathedral ; my first schwarma |
18 Visa registration; Chinese food; grocery shopping |
19 Adventures with an Italian washing machine |
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20 A Farmers Market; breakfast with Max; Wendys Baltic Bread |
21 Visa registration; Max and I go to the airport to meet George; Max and his dorm room |
22 Snow; visa registration for George; pickles at the Farmers Market; a broken tooth; Dentist; the "Art Park" |
23 Gostiny Dvor; lunch at the Metropol for $68; the Post Office; a scarf; Moscow Train Station; Lebanese food; Lost |
24 The death of George; card jamming; Tetris, the first Internet Cafe; attack of the minature gypsie; Blini; "Cozy Cafe" (AKA Demidov); coaster flipping |
25 The Hermitage/ Winter Palace; Ice Cream Festival?; Buffett at the Stroganoff yard; the concert; we meet some of St Petersburgs "finest" |
26 The Cruiser Aurora; the first cabin of Peter the Great; Palace Square; Music in the park |
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27 Birthday parade for St Petersburg; Georgian catsup; Amadeus pub; Smolny sobor; Mexican food; Abandoned by George |
28 An injured foot; "Sunduk" cafe; yet another sidewalk cafe |
29 An injured foot; flowers for George; the end of the "Blue Line"; a great grocery store; more blini; the egyptian house; no hot water |
30 Painting the town brown; sidewalk dangers; ethnographic museum; Jever beer?; "Art Park" again; Alina and Chinese food |
31 Hot Tempers for Breakfast; Summer Palace; Zoological Museum; Stroganof Yard; Alina and a "practice" concert; Jever beer - finally!!!!! |
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1 Blini for breakfast; Naval Museum; Gostiny Dvor cafe; hot dogs and more hot dogs; Marine Guard party at the US Consulate |
2 Baltic Train Station; Alina; Train Ride to Peterhof; Peterhof; hydrofoil return; Stroganoff Yard (again) |
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3 Sunduk Sidewalk Cafe; George leaves for the USA; a wreck in the road; a monument to the Defenders of Leningrad; another grocery store |
4 Headache!; camera confusion; Rain at the Sunduk Cafe; traffic jam; soaked by the rain |
5 Searching for "Cafe Rioni"; "Memorial to the Victims of Political Repression"; Sunduk (again); honesty on the bridge; Nevsky Prospect 14; a LOCAL grocery store; |
6 The "Lost Grocery Store"; "Springtime Shwarma" I think; motorcycles at MacDonalds; 24 hour "Shwarma"; 24-hour desserts |
7 (No coat today) Summer Garden; Swan Lake, Field of Mars; Peter and Paul Fortress; statue of Peter the Great; assulted by a carpenter; Summer Garden again; Sunduk cafe |
8 More Georgian food?; Gypsies; Demidov Cafe; Alexander Nevsky Monastery; heavy rain; shelter at a little dessert place ; |
9 Chinese food; gypsy operations; art exhibit/contest in Palace Square; the Zoo; a musical/revival; more rain; nice cafe near Salvation-on- the-Blood; homeless kids; |
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10 wedding pictures at Salvation-on- the-Blood; Jet ski; a beer festival; sky-diving on land; Pizza-Hut; gilded Griffon bridge; striptease action at the "Little Bird" |
11 (Russian Holiday)-Break Dancing, submarine sandwich, female skaters, Peach Melba |
12 (Russian Holiday) Beirut Cafe, busses, Armenian Church, Salvation-on- the-Blood |
13 Sushi, standing on the corner in the rain, nice couple at Sunduk |
14 GrillMaster, Granite Ball Fountain, Gypsies, Little Bird Monument |
15 Georgian Food, gypsies, Salvation-on- the-Blood, white stuff, around the river/canal to New Holland and St Nicholas Naval Cathedral, House of Culture, Pizza Hut |
16 Meeting Alina, more white stuff, Alexander III statue, The Big House (KGB/NKVD), Georgian Food |
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17 Gypsies, one last blini, hole-in-the-wall kiosk, desolate sidewalk cafe, first mosquito |
18-19 Packed, walk to metro, transfer, Pulkova-2 adventures, flight to Frankfurt, mechanical status boards, the "group from hell", ugly Americans, Houston. |
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