Buying train ticket in Russia - experience I

First case, go to central train ticket office of Sankt Petersburg where many guichets have different roles, in russian, and all have not moving queues of 10 people. There's the 'administrator' guichet with no one as you pay if you disturb her. Two machines to buy tickets and a couple more to check timetables. All in Russian. We give up.
Finally we went to the flying ticket office which was empty and for 120R (3E) more we got our ticket to Petrozavods.

Twitter like impressions of Sankt Petersburg

- Autocarro case de banho, por 15R ao lado do museu naval, mijei la dentro.
- Registar os vistos numa agencia por 900R, depois de lutar para encontrar a entrada do numero 54 da rua X.
- Quase rezar para que a carrinha-autocarro nao tenha nenhum acidente no zigue-zague do trafego para SP. Os corajosos ciclistas so podem ser crentes ortodoxos de uma religiao qualquer.
- Bar (com DJ) lavandaria, com nota alternativa

Russian Toilet Experience - 2

St Petersburg. Walking around in town. There's a bus. But something is different. It's not moving. It's a toilet bus! Yes, a trolley bus, converted into a toilet. Women on the left, men on the right.
Inside, a counter where a lady collects the money. And then, the smallest space I ever had for a pee. Basically, tiny cubicles, the side wall not higher than my shoulders (so when I stand up I can see everything my neighbor is doing). I can only close the door completely when I actually sit on the toilet.
In every cubicle, a sign reminding the women that you are supposed to sit on the toilet and not stand on it.
And there's something wrong with the flush: instead of flushing everything down, the previous user's "products" are flushed up again...
Interesting place.
Miguel took pictures so maybe he will upload one later.

St Petersburg nights

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Originally uploaded by eva_p

We had almost white nights. This was the view of St Petersburg at around 11 pm. Magical.