Thursday St Petersburg...2 days of seeing the sights and more snow.

Woke up today to snow again, so you will understand that this is really quite extreme sight seeing we are doing. We have walked about 30 km in the two days in the cold, and are feeling the strain.

The Hermitage , Peter and Paul Fortress, Churches of St Isaacs, Spilt Blood and Nikolsky, field of Mars, Nevsky street, Birzhevaya Place...We have seen them all, and it is clear that the Russians are masters at creating magnificent buildings and filing them full of beautiful things.

But probably the most impressive thing is that the city is here at all, given that in started as a huge swamp and the buildings are build on a foundation of logs.

One incredible coincidence is that we have bumped into two Australian ladies we met on Siberian train. They stopped in Yekaterinasburg, when we went to Moscow, and then we passes them on Nevsky Street and had a chat. Small world.

One more day...