Literally on the last day of staying at our countryside house, I remembered the good olde postbox right beside the entrance door. I have quite some memories linked with it, so I took a picture from quite a close point of view. If you read more, there is another version. I still can’t decide which one is actually better.
Walking in the street on a sunny day, I was actually quite touched by one of the lions on the building’s fasade. He looked really sad, as you might’have noticed.
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.
Another window-frame, an introduction for more panoramas.