Another couple of days have passed and I'm back in the Quo Vadis internet cafe here in St Petersburg doing this entry before I go to get my bag from the hotel, to go to the station (one of them anyway) and catch my train to Moscow.
Yesterday was a fairly good day, I visited the Russian Museum first which is a gallery of Russian art and was worth visiting, if you like art galleries. I had intended to go visit the Church of Spilt Blood next but in the end went straight on to the St Isaac Cathedral which is an incredible building. I tried to take a few photo's of the interior but none came out especially well, I'll try to upload something when I get a chance though. I had intended to go up onto the collonade and take a few pictures out over the city but it had already closed by the time I got there, I had thought about trying again today but the weather wasn't great so I decided against it. By the end of the day I wasn't feeling up to much and headed back to my hotel and lounged there for the evening.
Today went well, other than some rather dreary weather, with it raining on and off for most of the day. I visited the Hermitage and spent most of my day wondering around there. The whole place is amazing, both the rooms themselves and the sheer quantity of stuff there, again I tried to take a few pictures but they really don't do the place justice. The thing that amazed me the most is how it just seems to keep going and going. I was going around fairly quickly and I kept finding whole areas I hadn't realised where there. After that I wondered back onto Nevsky Prospect to get some more money before going to Cafe Idiot for supper. It turns out that the place I had thought was it infact wasn't and I probably could have gone there the first time I tried after all. Oh well. It was nice enough anyway and it's nice to know there are good places to eat around here, even if you don't know the langauge, if a slight shame to find out on my last day.
Posted by Haifisch at March 11, 2003 05:28 PM