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21 June. As our group walked through Saint Petersburg on a gloriously sunny morning yesterday, Mike told us of our good fortune. Fewer than one in five days in Saint Petersburg, he told us, are mostly sunny. During our three-hour …

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20 June – Evening. Even on this penultimate day of our tour, our group remained closely bonded and wanted to eat together. And of course, we still wanted to eat Russian food. So, at the end of our three-hour walking …

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20 June Part dva. Finishing the morning with Mike. The previous post ended at the statue of Peter the First in front of Mikhailovsky Castle but that wasn’t the end of our tour. We continued past the castle and crossed …