Nolalonghorn16
250+ Posts
Hey all,
Just got back last night from my 2 weeks in Europe. My thoughts are as follows:
Moscow --
Great city, I enjoyed it very much. I took a walking tour of the city, mostly the Center, Kremlin and Red Square. I loved the Red Square area and also loved the Victory Park scene. Moscow was definitely my favorite city, if only because so much has happened there. I also took the subway a copule of times, which was a combination of the New York and DC subways. Maybe my favorite part of the entire trip was the graveyard of fallen statues outside Gorky Park...it was a little out of the way but a very cool spot with statues of Stalin, Brezhnev and Iron Felix.
St Petersburg was very prettyand I mostly just walked around the entire city seeing sites here and there. The Leningrad Siege musuem was a HUGE disappointment, but the Russian Political Museum near the fortress was a HUGE suprise. Biggest tip from St Pete is to buy your Hermitage ticket in advance online and you get to skip the line. The ticket says to just walk up to the front of the line and pick up your ticket, and that's what happens.
Helsinki was a dud. It wasn't very walker friendly and there really wasn't a ton to see or do that I could tell. I went to the fortress but mostly just caught up on resting my feet after over a week of walking constantly and spoke some English
Copenhagen was gorgeous and extremely walker friendly. I loved just walking around the city and the temperature (mid-60s) made doing so simple whenever it wasn't raining. The Danish resistance museum was cool and I saw a few other sites. The major problem with Copenhagen was that it was insanely expensive, $11 beers were the norm. Best story from Copenhagen was going to an English Pub to watch the end of the British Open the day before I left. I started talking with the guy next to me and find out that he's my pilot on the return flight. I jokingly asked him to consider me for first class if he needed a volunteer to change the plane's weight and he said he would talk to the head steward about it. I'm sitting in my seat about 10 minutes before we leave the gate and the pilot comes back to tell me that someone will come get me if there's room in first class, and five minutes later a steward tells me there's a seat available. Long story short it was a great trip back
That's about all I can think of right now, although obviously I did a ton more. Thanks for all the hints, let me know if anybody has any questions.
Just got back last night from my 2 weeks in Europe. My thoughts are as follows:
Moscow --
Great city, I enjoyed it very much. I took a walking tour of the city, mostly the Center, Kremlin and Red Square. I loved the Red Square area and also loved the Victory Park scene. Moscow was definitely my favorite city, if only because so much has happened there. I also took the subway a copule of times, which was a combination of the New York and DC subways. Maybe my favorite part of the entire trip was the graveyard of fallen statues outside Gorky Park...it was a little out of the way but a very cool spot with statues of Stalin, Brezhnev and Iron Felix.
St Petersburg was very prettyand I mostly just walked around the entire city seeing sites here and there. The Leningrad Siege musuem was a HUGE disappointment, but the Russian Political Museum near the fortress was a HUGE suprise. Biggest tip from St Pete is to buy your Hermitage ticket in advance online and you get to skip the line. The ticket says to just walk up to the front of the line and pick up your ticket, and that's what happens.
Helsinki was a dud. It wasn't very walker friendly and there really wasn't a ton to see or do that I could tell. I went to the fortress but mostly just caught up on resting my feet after over a week of walking constantly and spoke some English
Copenhagen was gorgeous and extremely walker friendly. I loved just walking around the city and the temperature (mid-60s) made doing so simple whenever it wasn't raining. The Danish resistance museum was cool and I saw a few other sites. The major problem with Copenhagen was that it was insanely expensive, $11 beers were the norm. Best story from Copenhagen was going to an English Pub to watch the end of the British Open the day before I left. I started talking with the guy next to me and find out that he's my pilot on the return flight. I jokingly asked him to consider me for first class if he needed a volunteer to change the plane's weight and he said he would talk to the head steward about it. I'm sitting in my seat about 10 minutes before we leave the gate and the pilot comes back to tell me that someone will come get me if there's room in first class, and five minutes later a steward tells me there's a seat available. Long story short it was a great trip back
That's about all I can think of right now, although obviously I did a ton more. Thanks for all the hints, let me know if anybody has any questions.
