St petersburg

We have one had a few days in this beautiful city and are starting to get our bearings. We are in an apartment very close to all historical sites.
Arriving at the place was like one would imagine from the old Soviet era.  Four keys to get in, two metal doors to get into the common stairwell, one normal door to get into the hallway and one final padded door to get into the apartment.

Entry to our apartment. A bit on the grungy side.

Don on the rooftop tour.

Lovely summer weather here with 20 hours of daylight, so you gotta have some fluid intake to sustain the pace. Sue and Bruce don't seem to mind the local drop.

Anyhow, inside the apartment it is really nice, so we are happy. Last night we did a rooftop tour of the town. Very interesting to walk on top of theses old apartment houses. We learned a lot .The  apartments were divided up be rented out as single rooms, so what used to be hallway for one apartment became vestibule for several, all consisting of one room, hence padded doors. 

All said about that. Being on top of these old roofs was very exciting . We had 2young guides who afterwards took us to a "secret" (=illegal) Chinese restaurant. Very grunge and dirt cheap so but a nice finale to our tour.