What I will not miss about
- Some food: Overpriced Sushi, cucumbers for every meal
- A haze of cigarette smoke everywhere
- A permanent state of sweatiness, usually combined with a general grimy feeling.
- Air conditioning that gets just cool enough to make you think it’s actually cold upon entering a building, but actually its only 2-3 degrees cooler than outside; and now you don’t even have a breeze!
- Cell phone shop employees thinking I’m a Chechen terrorist since I had a cell phone with Arabic lettering. I actually had to get my host family to help me get a phone the first time.
- Being afraid of the police
- Smelly water in the showers.
- Not having to lug 8 liters of water back to my apartment for a week’s water supply.
What I will miss about
- The people
- Keri the dog
- The way that you can always find a beer at any street corner
- Cheap food/drink: A pint of beer in a bar for as cheap as $1.75, bananas for 10 cents
- Café Stolle's pirogs
- Red Caviar on a Bliny, basically bliny's in general - Teremok at Sennaya Ploschad:
- The waitresses at Bliny Domnik who took a liking to me (or pity on me) and gave me free juice
- Knowing that I drank 8 liters of water in one week (kind of a good feeling for some reason)
- Quickly moving escalators
- The palaces and their grounds:
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Hi, I found your (inactive?) blog while looking for info about Russian donut shops. As an American who lives in St.Petersburg, I can relate to a lot of your observations! Although I think you mentioned something about there being fast escalators, and I tend to think the opposite.
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