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Old September 18th, 2004, 12:53 PM
Eddy le Couvreur
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Early September we visited St Petersburg on a 5 day trip. A pleasant
experience, as it turned out, as this city has a lot to offer. From the
Amsterdam or Venice like canals to magnificent palaces. There are lots of
interesting sights like the Isaac Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress,
Peterhof and of course the Hermitage museum. A visit to St Petersburg is not
complete without a visit to a ballet or concert in one of the city's concert
halls or theatres. On my website you wil find the trip report with photos of
our stay in St Petersburg and you can read how we prepared for the trip and
what you have to consider before going the www.couvreur.demon.nl/travel

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Old September 19th, 2004, 12:16 PM
?ystein
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"Eddy le Couvreur" wrote in message ...
Early September we visited St Petersburg on a 5 day trip. A pleasant
experience, as it turned out, as this city has a lot to offer. From the
Amsterdam or Venice like canals to magnificent palaces. There are lots of
interesting sights like the Isaac Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress,
Peterhof and of course the Hermitage museum. A visit to St Petersburg is not
complete without a visit to a ballet or concert in one of the city's concert
halls or theatres. On my website you wil find the trip report with photos of
our stay in St Petersburg and you can read how we prepared for the trip and
what you have to consider before going the www.couvreur.demon.nl/travel


Interesting site!

If you have made the posting before you went, there would be seveal
people here who could give some ideas for your trip.

Some comments:

Accomondation.
You have lefted out home stay. In addition to make you listing
incompleate,
leaving out homestay excudes a unique way to get an insight in
ordinary Russians daily life.

From your description of "Soviet style bunkers" it seems you are not
too experienced with trabveling in Russia. If you ever habve got into
troubles when traveling in Russia, you would have known what it means
to have a friendly stubburn ******* as you Dezhurnaya - Floor guard.

You have probably payed a foreigner price for your hotel too. Didn't
you notice?

Visa
Yhe procedure you describe is the procedure for a tourist visa. You
can visit Russia (as tourist) also with a business visa. Then the
prosedure is different.

It is not true that you have to pre pay accomondation. You simply need
to make a hotel send you a invitation form covering the time period
you are going to stay. Normally it is no problem getting an invitation
for a longer timeperiod than you are going to stay at the hotel. Just
be aware of that there are different types of tourist visa for up to
30 days and from 31 to 90 days. You describe the up to 30 days
procedure.

You have left out that your visa got about 10 times more expensive
than necesary because you picked ip up the same day. If you wait 10
days or more, you save a lot of money.

Your story somewhat humourless. That is all right, but it is a little
funny to read when one points out that the embassy personell have no
humour. Also have in mind that the red tape that you are going to is
nothing compared to what an ordinary Russian must go trough with your
authorities in order to visit Netherlands.

Langugage
bez cakhara (without sugar), schok (check) and tualetnaja bomaga
(toalet paper) is probably also handy

The Metro
You discovered one of the most important reasons why you should not go
to Russia without learning the cyrillic letters

Best regards,

Jan
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Old September 19th, 2004, 12:16 PM
?ystein
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"Eddy le Couvreur" wrote in message ...
Early September we visited St Petersburg on a 5 day trip. A pleasant
experience, as it turned out, as this city has a lot to offer. From the
Amsterdam or Venice like canals to magnificent palaces. There are lots of
interesting sights like the Isaac Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress,
Peterhof and of course the Hermitage museum. A visit to St Petersburg is not
complete without a visit to a ballet or concert in one of the city's concert
halls or theatres. On my website you wil find the trip report with photos of
our stay in St Petersburg and you can read how we prepared for the trip and
what you have to consider before going the www.couvreur.demon.nl/travel


Interesting site!

If you have made the posting before you went, there would be seveal
people here who could give some ideas for your trip.

Some comments:

Accomondation.
You have lefted out home stay. In addition to make you listing
incompleate,
leaving out homestay excudes a unique way to get an insight in
ordinary Russians daily life.

From your description of "Soviet style bunkers" it seems you are not
too experienced with trabveling in Russia. If you ever habve got into
troubles when traveling in Russia, you would have known what it means
to have a friendly stubburn ******* as you Dezhurnaya - Floor guard.

You have probably payed a foreigner price for your hotel too. Didn't
you notice?

Visa
Yhe procedure you describe is the procedure for a tourist visa. You
can visit Russia (as tourist) also with a business visa. Then the
prosedure is different.

It is not true that you have to pre pay accomondation. You simply need
to make a hotel send you a invitation form covering the time period
you are going to stay. Normally it is no problem getting an invitation
for a longer timeperiod than you are going to stay at the hotel. Just
be aware of that there are different types of tourist visa for up to
30 days and from 31 to 90 days. You describe the up to 30 days
procedure.

You have left out that your visa got about 10 times more expensive
than necesary because you picked ip up the same day. If you wait 10
days or more, you save a lot of money.

Your story somewhat humourless. That is all right, but it is a little
funny to read when one points out that the embassy personell have no
humour. Also have in mind that the red tape that you are going to is
nothing compared to what an ordinary Russian must go trough with your
authorities in order to visit Netherlands.

Langugage
bez cakhara (without sugar), schok (check) and tualetnaja bomaga
(toalet paper) is probably also handy

The Metro
You discovered one of the most important reasons why you should not go
to Russia without learning the cyrillic letters

Best regards,

Jan
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Old September 19th, 2004, 12:16 PM
?ystein
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"Eddy le Couvreur" wrote in message ...
Early September we visited St Petersburg on a 5 day trip. A pleasant
experience, as it turned out, as this city has a lot to offer. From the
Amsterdam or Venice like canals to magnificent palaces. There are lots of
interesting sights like the Isaac Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress,
Peterhof and of course the Hermitage museum. A visit to St Petersburg is not
complete without a visit to a ballet or concert in one of the city's concert
halls or theatres. On my website you wil find the trip report with photos of
our stay in St Petersburg and you can read how we prepared for the trip and
what you have to consider before going the www.couvreur.demon.nl/travel


Interesting site!

If you have made the posting before you went, there would be seveal
people here who could give some ideas for your trip.

Some comments:

Accomondation.
You have lefted out home stay. In addition to make you listing
incompleate,
leaving out homestay excudes a unique way to get an insight in
ordinary Russians daily life.

From your description of "Soviet style bunkers" it seems you are not
too experienced with trabveling in Russia. If you ever habve got into
troubles when traveling in Russia, you would have known what it means
to have a friendly stubburn ******* as you Dezhurnaya - Floor guard.

You have probably payed a foreigner price for your hotel too. Didn't
you notice?

Visa
Yhe procedure you describe is the procedure for a tourist visa. You
can visit Russia (as tourist) also with a business visa. Then the
prosedure is different.

It is not true that you have to pre pay accomondation. You simply need
to make a hotel send you a invitation form covering the time period
you are going to stay. Normally it is no problem getting an invitation
for a longer timeperiod than you are going to stay at the hotel. Just
be aware of that there are different types of tourist visa for up to
30 days and from 31 to 90 days. You describe the up to 30 days
procedure.

You have left out that your visa got about 10 times more expensive
than necesary because you picked ip up the same day. If you wait 10
days or more, you save a lot of money.

Your story somewhat humourless. That is all right, but it is a little
funny to read when one points out that the embassy personell have no
humour. Also have in mind that the red tape that you are going to is
nothing compared to what an ordinary Russian must go trough with your
authorities in order to visit Netherlands.

Langugage
bez cakhara (without sugar), schok (check) and tualetnaja bomaga
(toalet paper) is probably also handy

The Metro
You discovered one of the most important reasons why you should not go
to Russia without learning the cyrillic letters

Best regards,

Jan
 




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