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.

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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.