| Mas Vistos - St Petersburg, Russia |
Nevsky Prospect - St. Petersburg5262 viewsTo cross the street in either direction on Nevsky Prospect -- one of the main streets in St. Petersburg -- you need to go into this pedestrian underpass. When we did so, on a bright spring afternoon (our wedding anniversary), my camera was stolen. I'd just entered the underpass, and as my eyes adjusted to the gloom someone bumped into me quite hard, and I knew my camera was gone when my left shoulder suddenly didn't feel the weight. But there was a crowd, and no obvious villan.
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Marjorie with our Guide, Maria Smolentseva1232 viewsAt Catherine's Palace in Pushkin, about 12 miles from St. Petersburg. Maria is an excellent guide, and spoke very good English.
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Holiday Inn Garden Court - Helsinki Airport, Finland1204 viewsBecause our inbound flight was late, we missed our connection to St. Petersburg in Warsaw. This meant a side-trip to Helsinki, and we still arrived in St. Petersburg a day late. This hotel, at the airport, was clean but basic. Nobody to help with our luggage, so Marjorie had to put it on a chair we "borrowed" from the business centre. She pushed the luggage to our tiny room on the chair.
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Nevsky Prospect - St. Petersburg1170 viewsThis is where my wallet was stolen. This is one of the main streets in St. Petersburg, Russia. Marjorie and I were walking up the street (same direction as the girl with the yellow shoulder bag) on a sunny spring afternoon. A large man on a cell phone came out from behind the bus shelter (on the left in this photo) and blocked my path. Others crowded me from behind when I stopped suddenly, and my wallet was gone. The police didn't really care -- this is apparently typical in St. Petersburg.
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Radisson SAS Royal Hotel - St. Petersburg1156 viewsMarjorie reading a guidebook in our room in the hotel, before going out to see the city -- and having my camera stolen, and then my wallet.
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Catherine's Palace, Pushkin1136 viewsOur guide, Maria, was somehow able to bypass this queue of tourists waiting outside the Palace. We went in the "exit," and zipped right through the Palace to the Amber Room.
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