Last day in St. Petersburg

On our last day in St. Petersburg we did a boot tour in the river Newa, the Griboyedov canal and the Moyka. This was great to get a glimpse of the city especially all this great buildings on the embankment of the river.

Not to miss when you visit St. Petersburg: The Church of the Savior on blood. The Church contains over 7500 square meters of Mosaic. The colors are great and it feels like you are in a fairytale movie. 

We also visit the oldest market of St.Petersburg where you can get everything you need, from fresh fish to pigheads (ugrr).

Another photo shooting in front of the river Newa with a close up from us to say good bye to this very interesting city. Nevertheless, we are happy to visit Berlin.

Next day in St. Petersburg

We also visited a great art space in St. Petersburg called Loft Project Etagi. There it felt a little bit like Berlin and we were surprised that they have this space in the middle of the city centre. There was also a small cinema with films in original language, just when we were there, they were showing the great German movie "Victoria"

http://www.loftprojectetagi.ru/en/about/

Hans and Paul even made new friends.

We also visited the main station of St. Petersburg, from there you can reach Moscow in 4 hours. We really liked the picture on the wall with all the destinations, there was Berlin on it :)

Here is a "making of" photo :)

Second day in St. Petersburg

On the next day we visited the famous Eremitage

  It is a very impressive museum. It is huge and the rooms are all very beautiful.

 Before you are able to visit the museum you have to stand in line, on an Sunday morning it took one hour ...

 But it is worth it! Because of the great wooden floor we had to leave our high heels at home :) (it is forbidden to enter the museum with high heels and the this is very special in Russia where we mostly saw women wearing them)

 After a couple of hours we were exhausting of walking around and left the building. If you want to see all artworks there you need more than 4 days to visit all 350 rooms.

Whats great about St. Petersburg, too? There are still some old Ladas moving around. My grandpa used to drive one when we were young...

First time in Russia

After Helsinki we went with the train to St. Petersburg. also called the "Venice of the North". It is a very beautiful city with great architecture with a huge french influence.

The first day we strolled around and were listening to great street music in front of the famous Eremitage /State Hermitage Museum.

We also went to the beach in front of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Nevertheless, it is not recommend to swim in the river Newa...

However, the view is great to other bank of the river.

We walked over two bridges of hundreds of bridges in St. Petersburg to reach the other side to do a photo stop with the Peter and Paul Fortress in the background.

Of course after all this walking we were pretty hungry and ate famous Russian food for dinner: Blinis. Yummy!

At the end of the day we went home with the famous Metro, it is the deepest Metro in the world and it takes several minutes to get down the escalator to reach the beautiful platforms.