Helsinki
Bloody cold but a great tour guide explaining the influence of the composer Sibelius in helping to establish a national identity through music.
Day 18 St Petersburg
Cold in St Petersburg but not wet. Apparently they only have 32 fine days a year here, with 120 snow days and the rest are wet. We went on a bus trip around St Petersburg city and saw many very large buildings. There are no houses here, just apartments to live in. There are many Kruschov apartments or once communal houses. Many people have summer houses in the country. The buildings are huge. There are many palaces and over 100 museums. We saw ice breakers to cut through the ice of the Baltic Sea. One of them was over 100 years old. We saw the Church of the Spilt Blood. There is a lot of history of Catherine the Great and the next ruler Peter the Great. So beautiful. We saw the St Peter and Paul domes. We stopped at St Isaacs Square. We saw the Aurora submarine which was over 100 years old. We also saw the KGB building as well as a new building called Das Strom. It is to do with natural gas. Last night we went out to a folk concert. It was very cheerful and colourful. A vibrant ...
Looks very chilly!!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like the Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge behind you LOL! Geoff
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