St. Petersburg

The Communists in their great wisdom used it as a warehouse!!!!

June 23rd 2008
Hi All, Well we made it in and are pleseantly surprised with such a beautiful city. When we landed into St. Petersburg it was like going back in time, the airport, the buses, the planes, helicopters everything about the place looked like it came directly from 1980's Soviet Russia. The airport is tiny, smaller than Cork and older and uglier than the old terminal in Cork, not what I was expecting fo ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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John Lawlor and Maeve Cotter

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Maeve and I are embarking on a once in a lifetime trip around the world and you can join us on our trip, online of course, plenty of psychos out there you know. Both being Irish and from proper big Catholic families (7 Maeve and 8 John, as well as 6 neices and nephews between us) not to mention all the inlaws, outlaws, relations, friends, neighbours and all the rest, we decided a travel Blog is the best way to keep everybody up to speed and excrusiatingly jealous of our trip. We promise to try our best to keep ye up to date and informed on a regular basis with as many stories, pictures and ho... full info

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