On our third day in St Petersburg, we realized that we had way too much left to see in and around the city. We ended up not doing any of the day trips or farther-away sites and instead wandering around the summer gardens and climbing St Isaac's cathedral and just wandering through all the streets that we could downtown. So we have to go back to see everything we missed this trip!
We started the morning in the summer gardens. Took a picture of a building along the way (left).
After wandering through all the gardens, we wandered over to St Isaac's cathedral again to climb to the top of it and get a view of the city. Well, first we stopped for lunch at an asian restaurant called King Pong. The food was really good - great place for lunch. Anyway, on the left below is just a street view from our walk to the cathedral, followed by views from the top of the cathedral:
This is the Mariinsky Palace, directly across from the cathedral.
Our poor attempt at a selfie:
After climbing the cathedral we just wandered the streets for awhile. Found some USSR buildings and cars.
Then we found the four lion bridge, which I failed to get a decent picture of without other people in it.
You could see the church of the savior on spilled blood from the four lion bridge:
Later, we had dinner at Gastronomica, which is a restaurant on the 6th floor of a small shopping mall. They serve traditional russian food with a modern twist. The view from here was nice - it was more a view of the residential part of the city than downtown. Martin got borscht again, of course, and I had a "beet cutlet" starter - I have no idea what was in it - followed by a pumpkin and goat cheese pizza that apparently came with raw quail eggs on it but the eggs weren't listed on the english menu. It was quite tasty, once I scraped the raw eggs off of it.
Since it was Saturday night, we explored some streets we were told had good restaurants and bars on them and found a fun little tapas bar where I got a sizable glass of very tasty sangria.
Good thing sangria is in english!
The vodka selection at the grocery store!
We used the metro (subway) a lot on this trip. It was really fun because it's really, really, REALLY deep underground and every time you go to take the subway you have to ride an escalator several minutes underground.
And, finally, just some random street views we took during all of our wanderings.
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