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And the city is half-sleeping, covered in mist.

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Taken on the summit of Blackford Hill. There is absolutely no photoshop-work, just croping etc.

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Fog over the Meadows. A man happened to be practising juggling there.

Walking on the busiest road in hte city, which was closed due to Navy March, and so all the people scattered in the streets. Actually, architecture of St. Petersburg is similar to Edinburgh’s — very diverse and really dense. There is no closes whatsoever, streets last for hundreds of metres, surrounding you like walls.

I think that’s enough with panoramas — going back to normal “small world” photos from next post.

This panorama (yes, it is) has been taken not so far away from the first one — the river is still Neva (by the way it is pronounced as Nee-va). I’m pretty sure the ship on the right is not a “floating shop” — it actually sails, or at least it looked as it could. The weather was realy sunny for the whole day and there was a Navy parade on (although I missed it), so more panoramas of the “Northern Athens” will be coming soon.

So that’s the first of a few panoramas of St. Petersburg and the huge lake that fills pretty much all of this photo is actually the main city’s river — Neva. It’s actually huge. There are also quite a lot of drawbridges across it, which are drawn at about 2 am every day, so that you theoretically get from one side of the city to another. Also, just for the scale — these fountains on background are about 15 metres high.