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St PETERSBURG, Russia - a trip report with photos and tips
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 -- ------- Eddy www.couvreur.demon.nl when replying directly remove *nosp@m* from my e-mail address!! bij direct antwoord *nosp@am* uit mijn e-mail adres verwijderen!! |
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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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"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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"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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