Georgian wine is incredible. I didn't even like wine until I tried some Akhasheni wine from Georgia. For the last day of my program, we bought a bottle (which came covered in burlap) and settled down with it next to the Hermitage. We enjoyed the semi-sweet variety, it was good to drink on its own. You can buy good Georgian wine for anywhere between 150-300 rubles ($5-10) at supermarkets.
Written Nov 12, 2004
In Petersburg it's ok to walk around with bottles of beer, you'll see everyone doing it. Of course, if you're a group of five girls, you might get some annoying attention, but nothing too scary (especially when it's broad daylight at 11 PM). My favorite beer was Baltika which is made in Piter. So I told all my friends to get it, and they bought out the shop so I was stuck with Tuborg! If you buy beer draft in a bar, it might be 50 rubles ($1.60) for a glass, but if you buy it in a kiosk or shop, it can be 15 rubles ($0.50) for a half liter bottle. Cheaper than water...
Written Nov 12, 2004
Found the Rock & Roll night club on the night of my Birthday. Had a great evening out with my girlfriend while we killed time waiting for our train home. Great Music, cheap drinks and food and it did not finish till 0500 in the morning. Needed some serious energy to get through the night. Was only 100pyb to get in as well per person. Well impressed with the whole night (although the door man took my water bottle away...be warned )
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Updated May 1, 2004
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L'église étonne par ses bulbes dorés et multicolores, surprenants dans le paysage architectural de St-Petersbourg.
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The church astonishes by its golden and multicolored bulbs, surprising in the architectural landscape of St.-Petersbourg.
Written Jul 13, 2003
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En fait, les deux garçons ont pris place devant, et je suis assis à l'arrière, entre Kamila et Natacha, toute deux en mini jupes sous leur longs manteaux. Ce délicieux ballet de leurs longues jambes sous mes yeux n'est pas propice à me plonger dans la méditation spirituelle.
Je savais les femmes russes belles et sexy, mais cette brutale rencontre avec les charmes de cette ville sublime, la vodka et cette sensualité ne manque pas de me troubler...
Je m'imagine tel un agent secret enlevé par des créatures du KGB par une nuit froide au coeur de la Russie...
Et je me sens plus le désir d'être un aventurier avec mes belles amies, qu'un touriste qui s'extasie devant ces merveilles architecturales.
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In fact, the two boys took place, and I am seated to the rear, between Kamila and Natacha, all two in mini skirts under their long coats. This delicious ballet of their long legs under my eyes is not auspicious to plunge me in the spiritual meditation.
I knew the beautiful and sexy Russian women, but this brutal meeting with the charms of this sublime city, vodka and this sensuality doesn't fail to disturb me...
I imagine such a secret agent removed by creatures of the KGB by one cold night to the heart of Russia...
And I feel the desire more to be an adventurer with my beautiful friends, that a tourist who is in ecstasies before these architectural marvels.
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Updated Jul 12, 2003
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Et nous voici soudain, en pleine nuit au milieu d'une sublime carte postale qui me laisse sans voix.
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And has us sudden, in full night in the middle of a sublime post card that lets me without voice.
Updated Jun 16, 2003
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Nous continuons notre périple nocturne, et je n'ai aucune idée de l'heure. Les rues sont quasiment désertes. Nous faisons une halte devant l’église de Tchesma. Cet étrange construction m'interpelle. Mais je ne me souviens plus très bien des explications données à propos de cette église...
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We continue our nocturnal travel, and I don't have any idea of the hour. The streets are nearly desolate. We make a stop before the church of Tchesma. This strange construction challenges me. But I don't remember anymore very a lot of explanations given about this church...
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Updated Jun 16, 2003
J'ai repris ma place entre les deux paires de jambes, au fond de la guimbarde. Notre virée continue, nous passons sur la Place des Arts que j'aurais l'occasion de revoir, beaucoup plus animée.
Depuis notre halte sur l’île Vassilievski, Natacha ne cesse de parler, de me décrire la ville, les monuments, de parler des coutumes, des habitudes. Mes quatre amis parlent un bon français, et nous ne faisons donc pas appel à une autre langue. Ils ont un réel plaisir à parler dans ma langue avec un français (les français jouissent d'une réelle aura dans tous les pays slaves, et il suffit de parler français en public, pour voir les yeux étinceler...).
Sergueï, à l'avant, dodeline doucement de la tête, les yeux dans le vague, plongé dans cette raideur que donne l'ivresse de la vodka.
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I took my place between the two pairs of legs, to the bottom of the jalopy. Our continuous outing, we pass on the Place of Arts that I would have the opportunity to review, a lot more animate.
Since our stop on the Vassilievski island, Natacha doesn't stop speaking, to describe me the city, the monuments, to speak of the customs, of the habits. My four friends speak a good French, and we don't call therefore on another language. They have a real pleasure to speak in my language with a French (the French enjoy a real aura in all Slavic countries, and to speak French in public is sufficient, to see the eyes sparkling...).
Sergueï, in the front, nod the head mildly, the eyes in the vagueness, dived in this stiffness that the drunkenness of vodka gives...
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Updated Jun 16, 2003
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Nous faisons tous une halte sur l’île Vassilievski.
Sergueï qui cachait une bouteille, sous le siège passager, propose à chacun de boire directement au goulot. C'est pour nous réchauffer, parait-il...
Ici aussi nous sommes les seuls à déambuler ainsi dans la ville qui semble totalement déserte. Nous n'avons même pas vu un milicien, ce qui ne semble pas pour autant rassurer mes compagnons, tout de même conscient de leur état...
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We make all one stop on the Vassilievski island. Sergueï that hid a bottle, under the his seat, propose each to drink directly to the neck. It is to warm us, he said...
Here we are also the only ones to stroll thus in the city that seems completely desolate. We didn't even see all the same a militiaman, what doesn't seem to reassure my mates as much, conscious of their state...
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Updated Jun 16, 2003
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Mes amis ont eu plaisir à me montrer leur si belle ville la nuit, bien que je disais être fatigué, ils ont insisté pour que je voie ce trésor. Je sentais la voiture patiner et la conduite hasardeuse du conducteur n'était pas pour me rassurer...
J'étais, en fait, beaucoup moins ivre que lui, bien que je n'ai aucune habitude de la vodka, et le véhicule n'était pas de sa première jeunesse.
Je pensais que, quelques heures plus tôt, j'étais encore à Toulouse, et qu'il y faisait chaud et un beau soleil !
Après quelques détours auxquels je n'ai rien compris, nous somme arrivés près du château Mikhailovsky (qui est un musée).
Je suis descendu de la voiture pour photographier (sans me casser la figure sur la glace!), et respirer un bon coup avant de repartir vers d'autres aventures nocturnes...
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My friends enjoyed showing me their if beautiful city her overnight, although I told to be tired, they insisted so that I see this treasure. I felt the car to skate and the conduct hazardous of the driver was not to reassure me...
I was, in fact, a lot less intoxicated than he, although I don't have any habit of vodka, and the vehicle was not of its first youth.
I thought that, some hours earlier, I was again in Toulouse, and that it was hot there and a beautiful sun !
After some detours to which I didn't understand anything, add us arrived close to the Mikhailovsky castle (that is a museum).
I descended of the car to photograph (without breaking me the face on ice !), and to breathe a good stroke before retorting other nocturnal adventures circa...
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Updated Jun 16, 2003
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