• The Baltic Sea
  • approach to St. Petersburg, Russia
  • the multiple story apartment complexes are all over eastern Europe
  • we arrive at St. Petersburg international airport
  • the Russian flag and the St. Petersburg flag
  • a Russian car tag
  • a new shopping center on the road into town
  • the "Soviet style" apartment complexes range from nice to slums
  • Victory Monument - Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
  • our first Russian McDonalds
  • 011
  • all sorts of traffic share the busy streets!
  • subway station
  • Saturday shoppers just like Dallas
  • St. Petersburg reminds one of Amsterdam with many canals
  • The Academy of Arts (1764-88) on thge Neva Embankment
  • Saturday outside the civil marriage office
  • our first view of the good ship Le Diamante
  • thirsty on the Neva River
  • this bar isn't open
  • quiet of the bridge
  • finally we find libation!
  • the G-8 Summit was next week and decorations were going up
  • The Mariinskiy Palace
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