Feeling touristy

Mama and Papa, if you are reading this, and I do hope so, I hope you enjoyed your stay in Piter as much as I did. It was great showing you “my” city and my home for the moment.

Yes, my parents stayed in Piter for five days and I was trying my best to offer them a diverse programme. I was killing two birds with one stone: I hadn’t done much sight-seeing myself, so I finally had a good reason to get started with discovering more of the touristy aspects of St. Petersburg I had missed out on so far. Last week, I was not only passing by Hermitage, but finally went inside. The same applies to the Peter-and-Paul-Fortress.

However, I also tried to show my parents a St. Petersburg off the beaten track and less touristy, like a big real Russian market, various rides on “Marschrutkas” and a nice coffee-break in our dorm room. You don’t get these impressions from a package holiday.

I came to realise that I had already gotten used to distances. We did a lot of walking and on the second day, my parents already knew that it would ONLY be another 15 minutes of walking, when I told them, “Oh, it’s just around the corner.”

We were quite lucky as far as the weather was concerned. It was clouded and windy, it rained a bit, but it was still not too bad and we could do some walking, some more walking and even more walking.

Now I am getting back to daily life here in St. Petersburg, but I am already looking forward to feeling touristy again in about two weeks when we are going to Moscow.

(anna)