2 long days here in St Petersburg, up at 6am and not back on ship 'till 6pm. Weather still fantastic. Ruski immigration nightmare, took one hour to get off boat. Zsars loved their gold - it's all over the place. Crowds of people, 5 ships in port, including a sister Celebrity boat. We left together to a great trumpeting of ships hooters. Been sampling the transport - the metro is very arty - hydrofoil boats were pretty quick, but look like they were built in the seventies. Had local food, beetroot, beef & tom soup, a sort of a shredded beef brawn, cold pickled herring, potatoes & onion and beetroot, alioli, egg & cheese salad. Old commy buildings are falling apart - older imperial stuff seems OK. The horses with the knights were real - dead and stuffed. The football Fed cup is here, so got tangled up in FanZone events, you know big screen areas where you can view matches in a mob. Lodda fountains, one of these is trick one where if you stand on certain cobbles, you get sprayed. There were a few of them, the Czars had a sense of humour. Saw Putin's place, not sure if he's got a sense of humour!
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