19/9/2002 St Petersburg, Russia (Phill)
Well, you'll never guess where I just got back from (well, at least I HOPE you'd never guess): The Ballet. We're in Russia and this is defiantely one of the things they do very well so we went. We saw Swan Lake and we got brilliant seats too. It was a good end to a good day. In the morning we stufed ourselves with the free breakfast and I boiled and reboiled the coffee (Russian water..). Then we slowly made our way to the train station to get our tickets for Moscow. All of St Pete's is under construction since next year is their 300th aniversary;The trainstation is no exception. Nobody speaks english or so they say. We found a ticket office and after asking the girl if she spoke english and she signaled no, we pulled out her map and tried to fumble directions. Well, all of a sudden she started speaking english! We got our tickets.....
Afterwards we walked along and found The Hermitage, the size is immense! Just outside we bought some old Russian samps and coins from some shady guy. The Hermitage itself is really immense, since i'm not a big art person I spent most of the time looking at the famous artists: Rembrant, Picasso, Henri, Matisse etc.... I should note that I did it by myself. I kinda needed a break and some quiet time. I really prefer doing this stuff at my own pace. It's actually quite frustrating now having to make sure that other people want to do what I want to do etc... I mean travelling by yourself has tons of advantages, certainly some drawbacks. It'll be strange to be stuck in a group next week for Africa
, not sure if I'm ready for that or not!
Happy Birthday to my mum! Shes turns 28 (again???) today!
Posted by Admin at September 19, 2002 12:47 PM