Walking St. Petersburg

Pictures: Craig's / Mary's

During our last days in St. Pete's, we walked and walked and walked....down Nevsky Prospekt, along the Neva, over a bridge, through Saints Peter & Paul's Fortress, over some more bridges, and back down Nevsky Prospekt. Our meandering was meant only to take in the sights, though we ended up buying some souvenirs - a chess set for me. A few select pictures below, and a link to the set above as always...

Moments before I took the picture below, I was discussing with Mary about these curious shirts I'd been seeing that said, "I went to Russia. I saw no bears." This sighting eliminated the option for me to buy such a shirt :(
We decided the next day (the day of our bus ride from St. Petersburg to Riga, Latvia) to visit the Russian Vodka Museum...unfortunately it was closed, so we climbed St. Isaac's Cathedral instead and walked through a park. Afterwards, we sat in a cafe and met a gentleman from California (Harvard grad. of Soviet studies), doing research for a documentary - very interesting to talk to!