We took off from Moscow to go to St. Petersburg for a few days. It's an overnight train ride which was exciting. St Petersburg is a beautiful city, more European than Russian.
Pris and I took a stroll around the city one night after dinner. I wanted to take some pictures at night (actually it was more of an excuse to use the tripod I had been lugging around) and since we were so close to the Winter Palace, we decided to walk in that direction.
At the square I was setting up my camera to take pictures of the column in the middle and the
surrounding buildings including the Winter Palace but unfortunately I had left it too late. The sky was too dark and I didn't get the eerie blue sky I was aiming for. After packing up my gear however, I noticed what the locals used the square for, it was after all a big open space with not much traffic going through.On the one side, we had what I call the junior Hell's Angels. Young locals making a ruckus, straddling their machines and revving the hell out of their . . . . .mopeds. A few would pull away and do wheelies and basically go around the square as fast as their little wheels would let them.
On the other side are the BMX'ers who were playing a game of tag with an empty plastic coke bottle. They even used us as shields as we walked across their turf.
And finally there were the silent ones. Inline skaters ignoring the revving and bottle throwing
and just going around the square on their silent skates.What I like about St. Petersburg is that their building code prevents them from building anything over 5 storeys and the facade of most building have to be preserved when renovating. They also like to light up their buildings at night, not very environmentally friendly but it sure makes the city pretty at night.
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