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St Petersburg 300 year - apt available
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Posted by: Riversnow

A friend of mine lives in St Petersburg and has a somewhat "western style" apartment that she is willing to rent out during the St Petersburg 300 year celebration. She has been approached by Russian real estate people who have offered her a princely sum for the apartment for a month. She would have no control over who they would rent it to and worries about it being rented to "easterners" who might steal part of the contents and/or deface the property. She wishes to rent to "westerners." The apartment has a kitchen w/ stove, refrigerator, etc; bathroom w/tub/shower; bedroom/livingroom with sofabed; another bedroom/study with sofa and sleeper chair. If anyone is interested I will put you in contact with Anna. Thanks - Lee

Posted by: Castlestormer

castlestormer1@yahoo.com

Thanks!

Posted by: Khashyar

Hey guys...

What an easy connection you two made

I think that St. Petersburg will be a wonderful place to be during the 300 year celebration...

I wish that I was able to be there...

Khashyar

Posted by: merlin

Hi

I don't want to put a dampener on anybody’s plans, but according to Katya the authorities won't be issuing visa's for Spb during May/June and are in fact closing the airport there for three days from 24th May, they evidently only want Russian nationals there. Katya's daughter who lives in the UK can't even bring her English husband with her when she comes in May to join in the celebrations.

By the way the city restoration is evidently in a state of disarray, with little more than a month to go, a lot of buildings are still covered in scaffolding and a lot of the money allocated for the works has been disappearing as a result of the widespread corruption there. I saw a couple of sites when I was there where building reconstruction had been abandoned because all the funds had mysteriously dissappeared.

There is even a story that restoration on one of the summer palaces is so far behind that they are applying rendering to the walls and attempting to dry it with blowlamps with obvious long-term problems, i.e. it will all fall off. The authorities have also recently stated their intention to close the schools in Spb early and asking parents to take their children into the country.

Last week during the Franco/German meeting there they closed most of the road system without notice, for security reasons, which meant that a lot of the tutors and students couldn't attend the University, Katya eventually got there by walking to find no students, it all sounds a bit crazy there at the moment.

Terry

Posted by: Castlestormer

What about Moscow? It's not a very long train ride to St Pete.

Posted by: merlin

Hi

I asked Katya about this and she said your visa would not include travel to Spb. they would be strict on checking trains etc. But then Katya is paranoid having survived lived most of her life under communist rule which was controlling in the extreme!!! I would suggest contacting your nearest Russian Embassy, the Scottish one here is helpful unlike the London one in my experience

Regards

Terry

Posted by: Khashyar

I think that Steve could just receive a Russian visa, land in Helsinki, finland (which is across the bridge from SPb, and then enter the city "on his way to Moscow"

If not, I am pretty sure that flying to Moscow, then taking the overnight train to St. Petersburg would work...

Khashyar

Posted by: Castlestormer

That is one of the things I really love about this board: it makes me think! I'm still leaning on going. But if I do, I will have completely thought it through.

Thanks one and all!

Posted by: Khashyar

You're welcome, Steve

Spend some time and think about your decision whether to go...

People told me not to ride the train across Russia and Siberia by myself, but I rode from Mongolia to Russia, and Moscow to Mongolia all by myself because I had a sense of adventure and wanted to do it anyway... I had a great experience....

I am sure that you will make the right decision for yourself.

Khashyar

Posted by: merlin

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Originally posted by Khashyar
........ but I rode from Mongolia to Russia, and Moscow to Mongolia all by myself because I had a sense of adventure and wanted to do it anyway.....

I completely agree with you Kashyar about life being an adventure I spent some months in India a few years ago and was warned about all sorts of problems, but went wherever I felt I wanted to and never experienced any of the fears that I was told about.

Similarly I spent some time in San Francisco last year and was told to avoid many so called no go areas, but again although I seemed to be the only white man around in some places I never felt fearful, and found them to be often the most interesting and funky places to be. Life is an Adventure and meant to be lived to the full, if we accepted all the worries and fears that people express we wouldn’t go through our front door.

It might sound strange and completely off the wall but I do have a belief that our fears can create the very events that we fear. If we are terrified of being mugged for instance, as sure as eggs is eggs we often end up being mugged.
Take sensible precautions and trust the universe is my motto; it’s a pretty safe place really.

Terry