
St Peterburg Celebrated its 307th Birthday on Thursday 27th May 2010, however the celebrations went on for 4 days until Sunday 30th May, however we arrived in St Petersburg the morning after the official City day, but after a day of work, food, drink we didn’t see much of the events of the weekend until the next day.
Jun 01, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Photography, Travel | Tags: Banksy, Bar, Blood Church, City Day, Fontanka, Idiot, Idiot Bar, Kayaking, Performers, Regatta, Russia, Russian Federation, St Petersburg, Stroganoff | 1 Comment »

We didn’t realise until a day or so beforehand though that the day before we arrived it was the St Petersburg City Day, and that this year it was being stretched out over 4 days
May 31, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Photography, Travel | Tags: Blood Church, Cathedral, Cathedral of our Saviour on Spilled Blood, Church, Icons, Mosaics, Religion, Russia, St Petersburg | Leave A Comment »

As a finale to their enforced extension to their visit to Moscow due to the volcanic ash cloud over most of Europe we decided to go to St Petersburg.
Apr 29, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Photography, Travel | Tags: Boat, Boat trip, Canals, Church of our Saviour on Spilled blood, Flight, Kazan Cathedral, Landscape, Nevskiy Prospect, River, Russia, St Isaac's Cathedral, St Petersburg, Steak, Steakhouse, Stroganoff Restaurant, Train | Leave A Comment »

We arrived into St Petersburg Pulkovo 1 airport from Moscow to be greeted by the damp cold that you just don’t get in Moscow, we took a cab we booked at the airport right into the historic Centre by St Isaac’s Cathedral where our hotel was for a reasonable 700 rubles.
Mar 10, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Photography, Travel | Tags: Catherine Palace, Pavlovsk, Peterburg, Photography, Pushkin, Russia, Russian Federation, St Petersburg, Travel, Tsarskoye Selo | Leave A Comment »