I’m officially back! It took me a week to pull myself together, but i’m back! We’ve spent 3 weeks in Moscow, Russia, seen lots of relatives, traveled to Saint Petersburg for 3 days and generally had fun! We visited so many interesting places - museums, parks, went to the opera 3 times! Had a cultural vacation, ya know;) I also had a chance to buy a lot of yarn, you can see it HERE!
These a few pictures from the trip. They were all taken with my DH’s cell phone, because i’m still using old, mechanical camera and haven’t had the time to take the films for developing and printing.
This is the view of Kremlin in Moscow from the other side of the river Moskva. It didn’t fit into the frame, so imagine there’s lots more:
This is the [COLOR=Red]Tsar Bell[/COLOR]:
A place in the city center called the Patriarch’s Ponds (it was used many years ago for growing fish for the Patriarch of the Russian Church). It’s an important place to the literary world - it is the exact place where the first scenes of the immortal Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita” take place:
Now to some Saint Petersburg pictures! It’s a very different city, it’s much more like Amsterdam, since Peter the Great built it after studying in Europe and in Holland particularly.
Here’s a picture of [COLOR=Red]Peterhof[COLOR=Black], a place that started as a house in the nearest point to the island-fortress of [COLOR=RoyalBlue]Kronstadt[/COLOR], but over the years developed in to magnificent complex of buildings and gardens, fountains, surprise fountains and beauty, most of all:
And the final picture:
The bridges are being opened at night on the Neva river. These days is the time of year called “white nights”, because the twilight never goes into darkness and you can walk around this beautiful city and enjoy the palaces and statues. So here’s ont of the bridges:
Hope you enjoyed 
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Maybe he’s a cell phone wisperer and promised it 100% roaming:roflhard:. Anyway, the pictures i took are not ready yet, but i hope they will as good as his:cheering:
