...and here comes Sunday

At the beginning once again bound by the already set up tradition a few words about the meaningful titel. Those most careful of you are qute likely to spot that my writing pace seems to be pretty delayed. Just to let you know the past few days were not to underestimate 'quite intensive'. I will take a deep breath and try to catch up with all the latest news that happened recently ( starting neatly from sunday, which despite its sancity was not the sacred day this time). 

We all woke up pretty early, trying not to be late for the first St. Petersburg excursion with Nastya ( not to mention we finally were late but only due to the fact we overestimated our walking/runnning skills). Heading to the city centre we took russian METROPOLITANA which would be the first but not last crucial point of my sunday description.

Just to let you know St Petersburg metro is one of the deepest subway systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of the stations ( according to the rule what WIKIPEDIA says needs to be true). I am mentioning it because it was quite a suprise standing on the escalator for 3 minutes, going down and down, and seeing no 'light at the end of the tunnel'. When you are brought in Poland in the atmospehere of the black volga legends and are forced to keep in mind the entire soviet history even the russian escalator makes you quite inconvenient. My grandma  kept on telling me that St Petersburg metro has the most gorgeous underground stations in the world, so be ready for some more news titled:

Marta travells by Russian metro.

Ok, lets get to the point. We had met Nastya in front of the registration centre near to the Nevsky Prospekt and then started our excursion. It is really impressive how much she knows about the city and in what details can she decribe every encountered building, corner and even  bridge. Thanks to our lovely guide we have seen places in Petrograd we would have never  even dreamt of. Obviously, starting from the Nevsky Prospekt we passed such breathtaking and monumental places like Church on Spilled Blood, Kazan Cathedral, St. Isaac's Cathedral or Ostrovskyi Square. 

Kazan Cathedral

But what I really mean by saying we have seen a few extraordinary places is a different story. We strolled down the river with Nastya, having a look at a few architectural miracles including  iner alia: Vallin de la Mothe leading into New Holland, 3 lovely bridges named modestly: red, blue and green  and Stroganov Palace overlooking the Moyka. a

And it is just the beginning what St. Petersburg has to offer.

St Isaac's Cathedral

What is more I would not be myself if I hadnt  spotted one of the most controversial but how necessary places in St, Petersburg. The vodka musem pictured belove does not only reflect the Russian spirit but also refers to how valued byeastern europeans  culture and tradition ;)

That's all for the excursions so far.....

To finish our exciting day we decided to meet up in one of the apartments  once again to mingle and chill out  with the group. Thanks to our two lovely Italians we finished the day with declicious pasta with pesto , salsa dancing and even  some russian tradition mentioned before. ( and that's what I meant by not that sacred Sunday :) )