Interesting place St-Petersburg, went out to dinner last night to a Japanese restaurant, yep that’s right, Japanese, not Russian.
Came out of the restaurant at about midnight here that’s 6am Aust time and 8am NZ and you will never believe it but there were people still out there wearing sunnies.
Why, you may very well ask!!
Well let me tell you, it wasn’t only because they had hangover, albeit I can well imagine that a number of them will today, no it was because the sun had not yet set!
You see in this part of the world (as I notice Gill commented earlier) in mid summer it remains light 24/7 and apparently in winter it remains dark. Probably not good if you are wanting to rely on darkness to indicate that you should be at home in bed.
Today we have another guide booked for 10am and she/he is going to take us on a tour of the Hermitage which was the original winter palace. Apparently this place has 1057 rooms. I, for one certainly hope that they don’t want to visit every one. Of the art that they have on display in there it apparently represents 20% of what they have on site so at least I guess that they can change the display often.
That’s all from me for today so till next update – TTFN
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