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Dear Peter the Great,
If you build a city on a marsh, you'll have evil arctic mosquitos. Please take note.
Sincerely,
The giant bug bite.
St. Petersburg is gorgeous. We've seen so many churches in the last two weeks that if someone even mentions the word "icon" everyone goes nuts. There's some weird unwillingness to accept 500 ruble bills, which is annoying when you realize that $20 is roughly 500 rubles, so we're all carrying a bunch of them around.
No one's been hit by a car yet ::knock on wood:: which is some kind of minor miracle when you see the way people drive here. I wasn't so big on Moscow, and although it's harder to ger around here, I love st. petersburg. Our hotel is right on the river neva, and the lights at night are gorgeous. i've watched several sunsets, especially as the sun doesn't go down til 11 or 12, so i'm often home by then. we have a private balcony on our room, from which you can see the river, and the one at the endo f our floor faces west, so we can watch the sun set into the river, and later on we can watch the bridges go up.
We have no internet in the hotel, so i'm at an internet cafe now and am almost out of time. Mea culpa. I hope everyone's summer is going well!
If you build a city on a marsh, you'll have evil arctic mosquitos. Please take note.
Sincerely,
The giant bug bite.
St. Petersburg is gorgeous. We've seen so many churches in the last two weeks that if someone even mentions the word "icon" everyone goes nuts. There's some weird unwillingness to accept 500 ruble bills, which is annoying when you realize that $20 is roughly 500 rubles, so we're all carrying a bunch of them around.
No one's been hit by a car yet ::knock on wood:: which is some kind of minor miracle when you see the way people drive here. I wasn't so big on Moscow, and although it's harder to ger around here, I love st. petersburg. Our hotel is right on the river neva, and the lights at night are gorgeous. i've watched several sunsets, especially as the sun doesn't go down til 11 or 12, so i'm often home by then. we have a private balcony on our room, from which you can see the river, and the one at the endo f our floor faces west, so we can watch the sun set into the river, and later on we can watch the bridges go up.
We have no internet in the hotel, so i'm at an internet cafe now and am almost out of time. Mea culpa. I hope everyone's summer is going well!
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