And she's back!
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janie_tangerineOk, I've got the worst cold EVER and yesterday I was completely spent but it was worth it. Under the cut you shall find a nice post about my Russian experiences, with pics et all, english & italian at your service. And later I'm doing what my socia tagged me for but I'll do separate posts, please XD
26/8/07
Leaving: 5.00 in the morning. Yeah, we had to catch a flight to Milan first and then change there. First problem: the guy at the phone had said to go from internetional flights but we had to go through nationals. I could have slept at least an hour more but whatever, we had a nice hour-something staying in Milan where I bought Classic Rock and as usual didn't manage to do their crossword (it's shit difficult °_°) and after three hours of flight and two hours more of time zones, we get there. We find the taxi and he puts on some music.
Eros Ramazzotti. Right, I go to Russia to listen to Eros Ramazzotti. Problem is, after that there was local music. I'll tell you, you don't wanna hear Russian pop music. It's like... if I said disgusting it wouldn't be as much XD something that made backstreet boys look like the rolling stones. Kinda. Anyway, we arrive at the hotel and set off for the metro. And here the first problems start because there isn't ONE English writing and the damn cirillic is, just, terrible. But we manage to take the metro, at least, and go to the center, where we search for a place to eat. And we find one where the waiter speaks Italian, kind of. Right, no one speaks English but Italian yeah, alright... XD
But, last problem of the day, you can't drink tap water there because it's polluted and there's some bacteria that brings you intestinal problems, so you have to wash your teeth with mineral water. Except, the mineral water they sell there isn't still, they put something in it to make it sparkling and it's, like, disgusting. But whatever, first day gone and you shall see some pics XD
Si parte alle cinque, cambio a Milano. Peccato che l'idiota del servizio informazioni ci ha fatto partire un'ora prima perchè secondo lui si andava dagli internazionali mentre si andava dai nazionali. E vabbe'. A Milano ho comprato Classic Rock del quale NON sono riuscita a fare il cruciverba come al solito e dopo tre ore di volo, due fusi orari avanti, arriviamo. Al che si cerca un taxi, si parte, mette la radio e chi spunta? Eros Ramazzotti.
Perchè vado in Russia per sentire Ramazzotti. Peccato che la musica pop locale sia infinitamente peggio. I BSB in confronto sono i Rolling Stones XD comunque, si arriva e poi si va in metropolitana, nella quale è scritto TUTTO in cirillico. Un lavoro di decifrazione e passa dopo, finalmente si arriva in centro e si trova un ristorante col cameriere che parla italiano. Perlomeno, visto che NESSUNO parla inglese XD
Ultimo problema, non si può bere l'acqua corrente perchè c'è una specie di parassita che ti ammazza l'intestino, se lo becchi, quindi ci si lava i denti con acqua minerale. Peccato che la liscia non esista e l'unica in vendita sia una cosa artificialmente frizzante che è assolutamente disgustosa XD ma almeno il primo giorno è andato...
(Canal on the Nevskj Prospekt XD)
(LOOOOOOOOOVER, SARAAAAAAAAAAA XD) That place is Pepsiland, BTW. Everyone drinks Pepsi. No Coke XD
Another canal near the Nevskj where I think we went to eat XD
27/8/07
Most notable thing of the day: in my hotel there's a family which has one 17-something year old son that is, like, Ian Somerhalder at 17. Same eyes colour, same longish dark hair. You know what, XQ______________ XD Anyway, we went to visit the fortress of St Peter and Paul, which was a very interesting place, and where I took some nice pics where I even tried to be artistic. And we realized that no one in Russia speaks English which isn't the first ten numbers.
Cosa più interessante della giornata, un ragazzino in albergo che era il sosia diciassettenne di Ian Somerhalder. Posso dire solo una cosa. XQ__________________________________________________________________________ Comunque, ci siamo belli che visitati la fortezza di pietro e paolo, posto estremamente interessante dove ho tentato di fare foto artistiche e si è realizzato che nessuno parla inglese che non siano i numeri da uno a dieci. E il cirillico è DIFFICILE cazzo XD
Graves of the Romanoff family XD
River Neva from the fortress.
Fortress entrance.
Local orchestra outside the church that played Italian folk songs for an italian group of tourists there.
Immaginatevi funicolì funicolà suonata e la marcia dei bersaglieri suonate da questi... XDDD
The church inside the fortress;
Me artistic mode on.
28/8/07
First Hermitage day. I tell you, it's WONDERFUL, but tires the HELL outta you. My feet were just screaming, after. But totally worth it (Leonardo, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Monet, like, EVERYONE *___________*). It basically took a whole day, so the other only great thing of the day was a guy with a Fender playing Since I've been loving you on the Nevskj prospekt. Something GREAT XD
Primo giorno all'Ermitage. Giuro, è BELLISSIMO e ci stanno praticamente TUTTI, ma ti ammazza. I piedi, alla fine del giro, urlavano come mai prima, ma diosanto se valeva. Comunque ci abbiamo messo tutto il giorno in pratica, quindi l'unica altra cosa da dire è che c'era un tipo che suonava Since I've been loving you sulla NEvskj prospekt. una cosa divina XD
This was someplace inside the Hermitage I think... or anyway I'm posting it here because I don't want to forget it XD
Winter Palace place XD
29/8/07
Second Hermitage day, then we went to a restaurant which was like a medieval place but most important thing, I found a record shop which was THE GREATEST EVER. Tons of used cds, everything not more than 6 euros each and BOOTLEG DVDS XQ__ I went there like four times after the first and I got myself four Beatles records, Free, Bad Company, Robert Plant and some presents that I can't say now, then dvds by Queen, VR, Zeppelin, the Woodstock 69 director's cut and I can't even remember now XD in the evening, we took a bus and the driver was kinda CRAZY all the way, ran like a crazy man, spoke at the cellphone and had the change marches thing half broken. But they're all like that XD
Secondo giorno all'hermitage, poi un ristorante simil medievale e il negozio di dischi dei sogni. Tonnellate di roba usata a prezzi ridicoli e DVD cazzo *_* mi sono presa quattro cd dei beatles, i bad company, i free, Vobevt e un po' di regali, poi dvd di Queen, Zeppelin, VR e il director's cut di Woodstock 69, una goduria XQ_______ la sera ho preso un autobus e l'autista era un pazzo, correva a mille, parlava al telefono e aveva il cambio mezzo rotto. Peccato che siano tutti così XD
Nevskj againXD
30/8/07
Today, some things. First of all, Alexander Nevskj monastery. Very nice place, full of Orthodox monks. (DESSSSMOOOOND! XD) and the cemetery in there. Which has graves of Dostojevskj, Chaikovskj and some other people which I'll kind of show you after. Then Dostojevskj's house museum, where I saw some priceless thing. In a room we have this 80 year old granny which works there as a custiodian or something like it which is doing a crossword. Which has in the middle three pics. Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace and Dominic Monaghan in the Lost first series promo pics. I was bursting out laughing. I think it's the proof that capitalism has reached Russia too XD I saw the Somerhalder guy again at the hotel (XQ____) and the palace of a lover of Catherine II, a guy named Orloff which had a veeery very nice house. All pink and sky blue XD
Oggi, interessante giornata. Monastero Alexander Nevskj, chiaramente pieno di monaci ortodossi... XD e annesso cimitero, con Dostojevsky, Chaikovskj e un po' di altra gente che posto lì sotto. Poi casetta museo di Dostojevskj, dove l'ottantenne custode faceva un cruciverba con le foto di Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace e Dominic Monaghan nei promo di Lost serie uno. Penso che sarei morta dal ridere XD e mi sa che il capitalismo è arrivato lì eccome XD. Poi casetta dell'amante di Caterina seconda, tale signor conte Orloff XD
Orloff's country mansion XD
The monks' garden.
The monks' cells XD
Dostojevskj (sorry, I couldn't turn them.... I can't even try to begin XD)
Lover, questo se non dico cazzate è Borodin, quello delle danze del principe Igor... sappi che solo per te l'ho fatta sta foto XD
31/8/07
Today, FUN. I mean, no, but. We went to a place 30 kms far that was the residence of Peter the Great, perverted and lovely Romanoff zar, but we went in one of these.
You can't imagine. They are noisy, they go on some kind of very polluting fuel, the door was broken and Russian pop music at its worst at a very loud volume. three quarters of an hour of HELL XD
Anyway, the place is very Versailles like. i'll make you see XD but damn. Fountains, TOO MANY. then we went back to the city where we stumbled into three or four weddings and some interesting spectacle...
Visita alla reggia di Pietro primo, viaggio in uno di quei cosettini gialli. Aveva la porta rotta, musica pop sparata a tutto volume, andava a nafta, inquinava TROPPO, da morire (anche se era masochisticamente divertente XD). Non penso di aver mai visto più fontane in vita mia però OO in città, quattro o cinque matrimoni e uno spettacolo interessante...
And this is the MARLY palace.... XD SORELLLAAAAA XD
Russian wedding limousine. it has fourteen places and five doors.
And this is the spectacle. Fountains that poured water along with a valzer XD
1/09/07
Today we witnessed some girl running screaming like a madwoman after her boyfriend left her, I guess at least, went to a monument to the people who died during WWII when the Nazis were trying to conquer the city and saw the only true Ministery of Love (for whoever read 1984 XD)
Lenin's statue in front of the Ministery of Love...
Which in truth was only the place where the local communist corporation or whatever held meetings, but come on, IT'S THE MINSTERY OF LOVE XD
2/9/07
And finally, today, VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S HOUSE XDDD I wanted to go there so badly (Lolita? any moment XD) ** then I went to the cd place and made a raid and then it happened.
After a week of the most hideous music EVER, we went to eat in a cafè and they had a radio which passed the usual stuff. Then I hear a bass. Then a guitar. Not synthetic. Real bass and guitar. Then I heard Anthony Kiedis, I realized that they were passing Desecration smile and FUCK AT LEAST A GOOD SONG XD I swear i never loved the Chili Peppers more XD
e finalmente oggi CASA DI NABOKOV ** io lo amo quell'uomo, dio quanto volevo andarci ** poi ho fatto razzia al negozio di cd e poi....
Siamo a pranzo. La radio manda le solite schifezze. Poi dopo una settimana di merda musicale sotto ogni punto di vista sento un basso. Poi una chitarra. veri, non computerizzati. Poi sento Anthony Kiedis. Mandavano desecration smile. Giuro, mai stata più felice di sentire di Chili Peppers, mi stava venendo da piangere XD
Me in front of the place. And this is the only me you're going to see here, I don't want to hurt your eyes too much XD
3 and 4/9/07
I'm doing these in one because it rained all the time, I caught my cold and I really don't remember much XD we went to see some churches and things like these, Puskin's house, another museum (for Russian things only) and fought at the postal office because clearly no one spoke English and you can't go buying stamps talking in gestures, also if we managed it in the end... And about that, I sent postcards. Only, the stamp was attached with some poor quality glue, so I'm sorry if they don't arrive, but I sent them T-T the return trip was hell because I had the damn cold and you don't want to take a plane with a cold... the pressure was killing >< then they lost one baggage at the return but there wasn't anything important in it and in the end I was completely drained but it was worth it **
Tre e quattro li metto insieme perchè pioveva tutto il tempo, mi sono presa un raffreddore della miseria e non mi ricordo troppo XD abbiamo visto chiese su chiese e roba del genere, casa di Puskin, un altro museo e ho avuto traumatiche esperienze all'ufficio postale per comprare i francobolli usando i gesti °_° alla fine li ho anche dovuti attaccare con la colla stick mezza finita quindi se non arrivano perdono, io le cartoline le ho mandate TT poi al ritorno la pressione mi ha ammazzato e hanno perso una valigia (e ti pareva....) ma ameno dentro non c'era niente di che... e alla fine valeva la pena ma giuro che sono completamente senza forze XD
And to end in glory.... this bar was at the airport XD
I'm over. PHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW.
Leaving: 5.00 in the morning. Yeah, we had to catch a flight to Milan first and then change there. First problem: the guy at the phone had said to go from internetional flights but we had to go through nationals. I could have slept at least an hour more but whatever, we had a nice hour-something staying in Milan where I bought Classic Rock and as usual didn't manage to do their crossword (it's shit difficult °_°) and after three hours of flight and two hours more of time zones, we get there. We find the taxi and he puts on some music.
Eros Ramazzotti. Right, I go to Russia to listen to Eros Ramazzotti. Problem is, after that there was local music. I'll tell you, you don't wanna hear Russian pop music. It's like... if I said disgusting it wouldn't be as much XD something that made backstreet boys look like the rolling stones. Kinda. Anyway, we arrive at the hotel and set off for the metro. And here the first problems start because there isn't ONE English writing and the damn cirillic is, just, terrible. But we manage to take the metro, at least, and go to the center, where we search for a place to eat. And we find one where the waiter speaks Italian, kind of. Right, no one speaks English but Italian yeah, alright... XD
But, last problem of the day, you can't drink tap water there because it's polluted and there's some bacteria that brings you intestinal problems, so you have to wash your teeth with mineral water. Except, the mineral water they sell there isn't still, they put something in it to make it sparkling and it's, like, disgusting. But whatever, first day gone and you shall see some pics XD
Si parte alle cinque, cambio a Milano. Peccato che l'idiota del servizio informazioni ci ha fatto partire un'ora prima perchè secondo lui si andava dagli internazionali mentre si andava dai nazionali. E vabbe'. A Milano ho comprato Classic Rock del quale NON sono riuscita a fare il cruciverba come al solito e dopo tre ore di volo, due fusi orari avanti, arriviamo. Al che si cerca un taxi, si parte, mette la radio e chi spunta? Eros Ramazzotti.
Perchè vado in Russia per sentire Ramazzotti. Peccato che la musica pop locale sia infinitamente peggio. I BSB in confronto sono i Rolling Stones XD comunque, si arriva e poi si va in metropolitana, nella quale è scritto TUTTO in cirillico. Un lavoro di decifrazione e passa dopo, finalmente si arriva in centro e si trova un ristorante col cameriere che parla italiano. Perlomeno, visto che NESSUNO parla inglese XD
Ultimo problema, non si può bere l'acqua corrente perchè c'è una specie di parassita che ti ammazza l'intestino, se lo becchi, quindi ci si lava i denti con acqua minerale. Peccato che la liscia non esista e l'unica in vendita sia una cosa artificialmente frizzante che è assolutamente disgustosa XD ma almeno il primo giorno è andato...
(Canal on the Nevskj Prospekt XD)
(LOOOOOOOOOVER, SARAAAAAAAAAAA XD) That place is Pepsiland, BTW. Everyone drinks Pepsi. No Coke XD
Another canal near the Nevskj where I think we went to eat XD
27/8/07
Most notable thing of the day: in my hotel there's a family which has one 17-something year old son that is, like, Ian Somerhalder at 17. Same eyes colour, same longish dark hair. You know what, XQ______________ XD Anyway, we went to visit the fortress of St Peter and Paul, which was a very interesting place, and where I took some nice pics where I even tried to be artistic. And we realized that no one in Russia speaks English which isn't the first ten numbers.
Cosa più interessante della giornata, un ragazzino in albergo che era il sosia diciassettenne di Ian Somerhalder. Posso dire solo una cosa. XQ__________________________________________________________________________ Comunque, ci siamo belli che visitati la fortezza di pietro e paolo, posto estremamente interessante dove ho tentato di fare foto artistiche e si è realizzato che nessuno parla inglese che non siano i numeri da uno a dieci. E il cirillico è DIFFICILE cazzo XD
Graves of the Romanoff family XD
River Neva from the fortress.
Fortress entrance.
Local orchestra outside the church that played Italian folk songs for an italian group of tourists there.
Immaginatevi funicolì funicolà suonata e la marcia dei bersaglieri suonate da questi... XDDD
The church inside the fortress;
Me artistic mode on.
28/8/07
First Hermitage day. I tell you, it's WONDERFUL, but tires the HELL outta you. My feet were just screaming, after. But totally worth it (Leonardo, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Monet, like, EVERYONE *___________*). It basically took a whole day, so the other only great thing of the day was a guy with a Fender playing Since I've been loving you on the Nevskj prospekt. Something GREAT XD
Primo giorno all'Ermitage. Giuro, è BELLISSIMO e ci stanno praticamente TUTTI, ma ti ammazza. I piedi, alla fine del giro, urlavano come mai prima, ma diosanto se valeva. Comunque ci abbiamo messo tutto il giorno in pratica, quindi l'unica altra cosa da dire è che c'era un tipo che suonava Since I've been loving you sulla NEvskj prospekt. una cosa divina XD
This was someplace inside the Hermitage I think... or anyway I'm posting it here because I don't want to forget it XD
Winter Palace place XD
29/8/07
Second Hermitage day, then we went to a restaurant which was like a medieval place but most important thing, I found a record shop which was THE GREATEST EVER. Tons of used cds, everything not more than 6 euros each and BOOTLEG DVDS XQ__ I went there like four times after the first and I got myself four Beatles records, Free, Bad Company, Robert Plant and some presents that I can't say now, then dvds by Queen, VR, Zeppelin, the Woodstock 69 director's cut and I can't even remember now XD in the evening, we took a bus and the driver was kinda CRAZY all the way, ran like a crazy man, spoke at the cellphone and had the change marches thing half broken. But they're all like that XD
Secondo giorno all'hermitage, poi un ristorante simil medievale e il negozio di dischi dei sogni. Tonnellate di roba usata a prezzi ridicoli e DVD cazzo *_* mi sono presa quattro cd dei beatles, i bad company, i free, Vobevt e un po' di regali, poi dvd di Queen, Zeppelin, VR e il director's cut di Woodstock 69, una goduria XQ_______ la sera ho preso un autobus e l'autista era un pazzo, correva a mille, parlava al telefono e aveva il cambio mezzo rotto. Peccato che siano tutti così XD
Nevskj againXD
30/8/07
Today, some things. First of all, Alexander Nevskj monastery. Very nice place, full of Orthodox monks. (DESSSSMOOOOND! XD) and the cemetery in there. Which has graves of Dostojevskj, Chaikovskj and some other people which I'll kind of show you after. Then Dostojevskj's house museum, where I saw some priceless thing. In a room we have this 80 year old granny which works there as a custiodian or something like it which is doing a crossword. Which has in the middle three pics. Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace and Dominic Monaghan in the Lost first series promo pics. I was bursting out laughing. I think it's the proof that capitalism has reached Russia too XD I saw the Somerhalder guy again at the hotel (XQ____) and the palace of a lover of Catherine II, a guy named Orloff which had a veeery very nice house. All pink and sky blue XD
Oggi, interessante giornata. Monastero Alexander Nevskj, chiaramente pieno di monaci ortodossi... XD e annesso cimitero, con Dostojevsky, Chaikovskj e un po' di altra gente che posto lì sotto. Poi casetta museo di Dostojevskj, dove l'ottantenne custode faceva un cruciverba con le foto di Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace e Dominic Monaghan nei promo di Lost serie uno. Penso che sarei morta dal ridere XD e mi sa che il capitalismo è arrivato lì eccome XD. Poi casetta dell'amante di Caterina seconda, tale signor conte Orloff XD
Orloff's country mansion XD
The monks' garden.
The monks' cells XD
Dostojevskj (sorry, I couldn't turn them.... I can't even try to begin XD)
Lover, questo se non dico cazzate è Borodin, quello delle danze del principe Igor... sappi che solo per te l'ho fatta sta foto XD
31/8/07
Today, FUN. I mean, no, but. We went to a place 30 kms far that was the residence of Peter the Great, perverted and lovely Romanoff zar, but we went in one of these.
You can't imagine. They are noisy, they go on some kind of very polluting fuel, the door was broken and Russian pop music at its worst at a very loud volume. three quarters of an hour of HELL XD
Anyway, the place is very Versailles like. i'll make you see XD but damn. Fountains, TOO MANY. then we went back to the city where we stumbled into three or four weddings and some interesting spectacle...
Visita alla reggia di Pietro primo, viaggio in uno di quei cosettini gialli. Aveva la porta rotta, musica pop sparata a tutto volume, andava a nafta, inquinava TROPPO, da morire (anche se era masochisticamente divertente XD). Non penso di aver mai visto più fontane in vita mia però OO in città, quattro o cinque matrimoni e uno spettacolo interessante...
And this is the MARLY palace.... XD SORELLLAAAAA XD
Russian wedding limousine. it has fourteen places and five doors.
And this is the spectacle. Fountains that poured water along with a valzer XD
1/09/07
Today we witnessed some girl running screaming like a madwoman after her boyfriend left her, I guess at least, went to a monument to the people who died during WWII when the Nazis were trying to conquer the city and saw the only true Ministery of Love (for whoever read 1984 XD)
Lenin's statue in front of the Ministery of Love...
Which in truth was only the place where the local communist corporation or whatever held meetings, but come on, IT'S THE MINSTERY OF LOVE XD
2/9/07
And finally, today, VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S HOUSE XDDD I wanted to go there so badly (Lolita? any moment XD) ** then I went to the cd place and made a raid and then it happened.
After a week of the most hideous music EVER, we went to eat in a cafè and they had a radio which passed the usual stuff. Then I hear a bass. Then a guitar. Not synthetic. Real bass and guitar. Then I heard Anthony Kiedis, I realized that they were passing Desecration smile and FUCK AT LEAST A GOOD SONG XD I swear i never loved the Chili Peppers more XD
e finalmente oggi CASA DI NABOKOV ** io lo amo quell'uomo, dio quanto volevo andarci ** poi ho fatto razzia al negozio di cd e poi....
Siamo a pranzo. La radio manda le solite schifezze. Poi dopo una settimana di merda musicale sotto ogni punto di vista sento un basso. Poi una chitarra. veri, non computerizzati. Poi sento Anthony Kiedis. Mandavano desecration smile. Giuro, mai stata più felice di sentire di Chili Peppers, mi stava venendo da piangere XD
Me in front of the place. And this is the only me you're going to see here, I don't want to hurt your eyes too much XD
3 and 4/9/07
I'm doing these in one because it rained all the time, I caught my cold and I really don't remember much XD we went to see some churches and things like these, Puskin's house, another museum (for Russian things only) and fought at the postal office because clearly no one spoke English and you can't go buying stamps talking in gestures, also if we managed it in the end... And about that, I sent postcards. Only, the stamp was attached with some poor quality glue, so I'm sorry if they don't arrive, but I sent them T-T the return trip was hell because I had the damn cold and you don't want to take a plane with a cold... the pressure was killing >< then they lost one baggage at the return but there wasn't anything important in it and in the end I was completely drained but it was worth it **
Tre e quattro li metto insieme perchè pioveva tutto il tempo, mi sono presa un raffreddore della miseria e non mi ricordo troppo XD abbiamo visto chiese su chiese e roba del genere, casa di Puskin, un altro museo e ho avuto traumatiche esperienze all'ufficio postale per comprare i francobolli usando i gesti °_° alla fine li ho anche dovuti attaccare con la colla stick mezza finita quindi se non arrivano perdono, io le cartoline le ho mandate TT poi al ritorno la pressione mi ha ammazzato e hanno perso una valigia (e ti pareva....) ma ameno dentro non c'era niente di che... e alla fine valeva la pena ma giuro che sono completamente senza forze XD
And to end in glory.... this bar was at the airport XD
I'm over. PHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW.
