Goodbye stranger

Some tips at this last post :-( ... at Russia :-)

 If you do not have a visa on your passport, you should carry the immigration card together it.

Because just the stamp on passport is not enough when you are asked for your id which is not so unusual as I supposed to be.

Therefore do not make your schedule to move around Russia just in time because you could be `invited` to open you backpack in a private room that reminds me Midnight Express with a small jail and copies of faces on the wall. Maybe you will be asked for "Tourist voucher" (the official paper confirming that you are in the country). And also it is useful unless you are hosted at an internetless hotel  :-(

 Trust me kacca  is a shortname for Ticket office :-)

 If they do not speak English, just remember you also do not speak Russian as well ... or no :-)

 In case of hungry look for pectopah but speak it at your own risk :-)

and caviar is affordable ... in Russia :-)

the bathroom`s light switch is outside it maybe for hurrying up who is inside :-)

some care on the sidewalk

and stairs

On farewell a beautiful day :-)

Goodbye stranger
Tried to see your point of view :-)

Spring at St. Petersburg

Finally spring arrived at Saint Petersburg :-)

to climb up St. Isaac cathedral

to get an overview of the city

that reminds Brasília with passages under some buildings

Get the courage to navigate

while others take some sunbath

I went to Peter and Paul cathedral

without Mary :-(

with nothing to kill or die for

above only sky :-)

Peterhof

Considered the Russian Versailles

it can be reached by taking a "Meteor boat" just behind Hermitage museum at Neva river

and arrive at Lower park

with fountains

squirrel getting away from amateur video maker and child :-)

The Grand Palace can be visited by who faces the queue :-)

Another cheaper way to reach it is by bus along a park with dogs playing

and then stop at the beautiful Avtovo station one of the most beautiful of Russia

where, I guess, a mom and grandma forgot the child inside the bus.
Unfortunately my camera was not ready to register the desperate bus charger calling for them with the crying child in her arms. Incredible !!!... below both walking and the child at left.

For not doing the same with my grandson Turing I put some fuel on my mind :-)

Serbia 1 x 4 Brazil

After receiving an accurate Sweden report, it is my bet for the match that will happen at Otkritie statium for the happiness of the Paraguayan horses :-)

In order to you witness it just take the metro and get off at Spartak station.

It was not allowed for inside inspection but the CBF`s handyman

discovered a parking place for VIP :-)

At the end, the match result belongs to the future but green and yellow napkins are also good omen :-)

Underground art

At Prospekt Mira

Novoslobodskaya

Ploschad

Kievskaya and 300 years of Russian-Ukrainian cooperation

at forgotten stations names ... or should I be back ? :-)

St. Petersburg

Nizhny Novgorod

But some reminds dark period

and other with sickle and hammer

Busy doing nothing

Like a dog playing dead :-)

Waiting for a bus made by the time of CCCP which is not different from my country :-(

like advices at bus stop... at least I guess so :-)

A metro station named after proletariat

with non-stop-mobile user inside :-)

But at 80s who could imagine these in Russia :-)

Some lost walking

while listening the birds... not in the dark :-)

before taking a cable car

that leads to Bor just after Volga river

And when the night has come and the land is dark

the State Bank of Russia was closed to beg some money