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https://saint-images.okinawa/stuff/saint_petersburg.html - finally finished the page about my visit to Saint Petersburg.
Cool trip, cool photos. I don't think many people know about the other St Petersburg, it even confuses Americans. Also, are the modern Russian high rise apartments actually called "Putin blocks"? haha
I've heard it used a couple of times, although it's not nearly as widely used as "Khrushchyovka" or "Brezhnevka" :D
Haha, so people refer to them as "Путинка" or something?
Yeah haha, it's a name of both a brand of vodka and a of newly built blocks of flats.
Pretty cool! The page itself is especially fun to scroll through with a laptop touchscreen. Also I love the snowman.
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Beautiful pics, specially the illuminations, night time hermitage museum, 34_city (looks delicious) and Aurora, but the highlights for me are 81_5 (maybe it's made by a jap manufacturer but that bus design screams russia), 90_bike (BEAUTIFUL sky) and 111_night -- feels straight out of an early 3D videogame in how the street light reflects on the near-perfect octagonal snow-free floor. Unintentionally creepy-charming.
And also really cool horizontal page design, that really adds to the experience. I daresay one of the reasons you may not have enjoyed St. Petersburg as much as Moscow is because St. Petersburg feels to me like a more touristy city.
Still rambling about 111_night -- and how there seems like a shadow at each vertex of the octagon, like a bug in the lighting engine. Really, really nice picture.
Thank you very much, スレナガ! Here are the pics you liked in full res, in case you want them https://imgur.com/a/8yyORn4. And about the "touristy" part - great point; it did indeed felt like that. In Moscow I didn't feel like a tourist at all, it felt much more natural. Cheers for pointing it out.