Monday, June 19, 2017

First full day in St. Petersburg

This one of the 'must-see' sights here in SP - the Church on the Spilled Blood, and blood was nearly spilled this morning as we tried to find the hopon hopoff bus company's office or at least a marked bus stop.

We had a voucher for the bus ride, booked online a few weeks back and silly us thought that this company would be like every other bus company in the world - inundate the sidewalks with markers and salespeople. Nooo. We walked for two hours looking for a bus and never found one. By this time we had already found this sight and looked around. By the time we found a place to stop one half the day had gone and the clock was running on the voucher. Finally found it and rode around the City. The commentary was surprisingly good on the bus and we identified most of the sights to see tomorrow. Unfortunately the biggest site - the Hermitage was closed on a Monday, well there's always tomorrow.

But we did see St Isaac's Cathedral and the place to get on the boat for tomorrow's trip to the Peter and Paul Fortress. Capping the day off with a visit to St Isaac's Cathedral and a stroll down Nevsky Prospekt. Not to mention the mushroom pancake for lunch. The pic on the right is a panel in the Cathedral.


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