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Saturday April 19th 1986

Saturday April 19th 1986 1st day Leningrad (NOW ST PETERSBURG) 2 Hours in customs. Got to Hotel (Leningrad)- Great Hotel, Meal of veal stew, red cabbage, cucumber, and saute potatoes. Starters sardine & cucumber and pumpernickle bread. Lovely view from Hotel Leningrad of river Neva. It...

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

from the travel blog: Russia 1986

Sunday April 20th, 1986

.7-52 am. Took 1st picture of view of the River Neva from the hotel room window. Big slabs of ice floating down. Breakfast - Some kind of Semolina Slab, slices of fatty sausage, coffe, tea, sour cream, cake, jam

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Sunday April 20th, 1986 2

Went on sightseeing tour. Maria, the Russian guide, has a dull voice. We saw, and took photos of the convent, which is intact only on the outside.

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Sunday April 20th, 1986 3

And the cemetary, where people are buried in huge communal graves.

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Sunday April 20th, 1986 4

Missed my dinner! My watch was somehow 1 hour slow and we turned up too late! We somehow survived. Spent two hours going round the Hermitage Art Gallery. Saw art from all over the world EXCEPT Russia!

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Sunday April 20th, 1986 5

We managed to make it to the evening meal! Instant mash with steak and PRUNES! Margaret enjoyed the combination!We went to see the folklore evening, singing and dancing in a brand new theatre in the hotel. A cast of about 50! It was magnificent!

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

from the travel blog: Russia 1986

Part Three - Returning Home

The begining of the end!!

written by

sledgenzr on October 9, 2007 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

from the travel blog: Tommy's Itinery for the Return Home

St. Pete

I'm in St Petersburg now. It's starting to grow on me, but my first impressions were not good. The train got in at 7am, and the hostel I wanted opens at 8, so I killed an hour walking along Nevsky Prospekt and checking out an old monastery. Fine so far, but the hostel turned out to be full....

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Jason Kester on May 31, 2004 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

from the travel blog: Southeast Asia, the Trans Siberian and Scandenavia

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