∞ generated and posted on 2016.11.15 ∞
Saint Petersburg is a city of roughly 5 million people located in the extreme northwest corner of Russia, due north of Moscow.
| I as part of a group of six spent less than 24 hours in Saint Petersburg, indeed barely 12 hours before jetting off for Shanghai and then Wuhan, China (click here for Wuhan; the rest of my group stayed in Saint Petersburg a fair bit longer). Though brief, Saint Petersburg nevertheless represented destination number two of my circumnavigation. We left from Moscow around midnight the night before, taking an overnight train, during which I probably contracted a cold… We then arrived in Saint Petersburg early in the morning and immediately obtained a mistaken impression that the city wasn't going to be very cold that day (this was mid-October, and quite a ways north of Moscow). Unfortunately, as a consequence, most of us spent the day wandering around outside quite cold. Eventually I had to leave everyone to madly dash off to the airport to catch my plane. But in between we spent the day walking around, complaining about the cold, wind, and lighting (for photos), only for the clouds to finally part, really for the first time in the whole trip, to provide us with a beautiful sunset. Photos follow… |