Category: Blog
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Izmailovsky Kremlin
One friendly Russian+no agenda= a super amazing day at a place a bit off the beaten track. Was also lucky enough to witness a few wedding photo sessions here, and one semi-creepy but nonetheless amazing old market place. A particularly friendly Russian gave me a boost over a locked fence to get this shot: (He…
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An American in St. Petersburg
I’m sitting in a hostel in St. Petersburg, Russia, surrounded by 12 travelers from all over the word. To my right, a young guy from Holland, who took a bus all the way from Lithuania. Next to him, a Brazilian national who has spent the last two months researching oil prospects in Siberia. On her…
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A Walk down Nevsky Prospekt
Nikolai Gogol, the famous Russian writer, wrote this of Nevsky Prospekt, the most famous thoroughfare of St Petersburg: “Step into it, and you step into a fairground….There is nothing finer than Nevsky Prospekt, not in Petersburg anyway…what splendor does it lack, that the fairest of our city thoroughfares?” He was right. It’s not really a…
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Why Travel?
A friend of mine recently asked me what I like about travel. The words simply couldn’t come to me fast enough. A few things that immediately shot into my mind: First, the world is so incredibly vast and diverse. But I think often we get so stuck in our daily lives, our daily routines, and…
Sarah PecK 