If you wish to see our apartment, go to http://www.roxana-apartments.com/ then to Fontanka 69
Christine wrote a section on this post before the above reference to our apartment's website. It disappeared for some reason, so we headed off on our Thursday excursions to the Church of the Spilled Blood (a rather off-putting title, but a Tsar was murdered on that site) and to the Hermitage. The Hermitage would take days to cover, so we returned home once exhaustion set in and Christine is soaking in a bath before we go to the ballet, Cinderella at the Mariinsky Theatre. I will re-cap on her vanished comments on the hurly burly of this crazy city.
St Petersburg was once an elegant combination of Venice (with its canals), Paris and Bath. It's now crumbling, but is being restored (rather randomly). Everywhere you go, buildings are clad in plastic, paths are diverted and roads are being dug up. It's chaotic, dirty - yet absolutely fascinating. On Wednesday we orientated ourselves and tried out the local buses - we were nearly stranded down in a port area, but managed to make it back to the centre. We ate again at our little local cafe, which has good food - tonight we'll return from the ballet and cook our own eggs.
Tomorrow we'll go out of town to Petershof, the Tsar's summer palace, then will have the evening at the opera, Life for the Tsar (we're thematic, if nothing else), 4.5 hours of spectacle. As it starts at 6.00pm, I suppose eggs will be on the menu again.
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Hi there! It all sounds scrumptious!!I am really looking forward to hearing more detail and seeing more snaps in another ten days or so. Keep smiling - you look so relaxed under the awning there, both og you. :)
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