St Petersburg - What I saw on a 2-day tour

[Cornishpastyman1]

Footage, photos and facts from my time with Alla Tours (who were excellent) on 3rd/4th June 2010 - this is what we saw in addition to a bit of city sight-seeing, on the 2-day 'moderate' tour :

 

The Fountains of Peterhof

 

The Catherine Palace at Pushkin

 

Peter and Paul Fortress/Cathedral

 

St Isaac's Cathedral

 

Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood

 

The Winter Palace/Hermitage State Museum

 

Videos from the other ports on the 11-day Baltic Cruise (HAL Eurodam) :

 

Copenhagen

 

Tallin

 

Helsinki

 

Suomenlinna (Fortress of Finland)

 

Stockholm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NweRnGqZ1k

 

Royal Warship Vasa & the Vasa Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45l1WMZOXA

 

 

It's not really a shore excursion, but if you're sailing from Dover and have a car the Battle of Britain Memorial is well worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9SifcE_uA

 

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Other cruise destinations' videos :

 

Normandy Beaches and Honfleur (3 videos)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1193997

 

Full Panama Canal transit (Pacific-Atlantic) (2)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1192555

 

Eastern Mediterranean (7)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1191713

 

Sights of Berlin and the History of the Berlin Wall (2)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1194011

 

If the links don't work you can find them by searching on my YouTube username, which is also 'Cornishpastyman1'

[Cornishpastyman1]

Footage, photos and facts from my time with Alla Tours (who were excellent) on 3rd/4th June 2010 - this is what we saw in addition to a bit of city sight-seeing, on the 2-day 'moderate' tour :

 

The Fountains of Peterhof

 

The Catherine Palace at Pushkin

 

Peter and Paul Fortress/Cathedral

 

St Isaac's Cathedral

 

Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood

 

The Winter Palace/Hermitage State Museum

 

Videos from the other ports on the 11-day Baltic Cruise (HAL Eurodam) :

 

Copenhagen

 

Tallin

 

Helsinki

 

Suomenlinna (Fortress of Finland)

 

Stockholm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NweRnGqZ1k

 

Royal Warship Vasa & the Vasa Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45l1WMZOXA

 

 

It's not really a shore excursion, but if you're sailing from Dover and have a car the Battle of Britain Memorial is well worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9SifcE_uA

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Other cruise destinations' videos :

 

Normandy Beaches and Honfleur (3 videos)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1193997

 

Full Panama Canal transit (Pacific-Atlantic) (2)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1192555

 

Eastern Mediterranean (7)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1191713

 

Sights of Berlin and the History of the Berlin Wall (2)

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1194011

 

If the links don't work you can find them by searching on my YouTube username, which is also 'Cornishpastyman1'

 

Drat ! The correct link for Peterhof (amended in the above too) is

 

Apologies.

[tennisobo]

Very nice! I especially enjoyed your music choices.

[Cornishpastyman1]

Thanks Susan,

 

The tracks were :

 

Peterhof - The Young Prince and Princess from Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

 

Catherine Palace - Solveig's Song from the Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg)

 

P & P Fortress - 'The Romance' from Larsson's (Swedish composer) Pastoral suite

 

St Isaac's Cathedral - Piano concerto no.3, 1st movement by Rachmaninoff

 

Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood - The Creed by Gretchaninoff

 

Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum - Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev and Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love) from the soundtrack to Dr Zhivago by the Tony Osborne Orchestra.

 

The general idea was to use as much Russian music as possible. The choice for the Church on the Spilled Blood is to these tin ears a bit of a dirge but the friend who lent me the CDs for all this insisted that a Russian Orthodox Church must have Russian Orthodox Church. Fair enough I suppose :)

[Cruzer Two]

Thanks Susan,

 

The tracks were :

 

Peterhof - The Young Prince and Princess from Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

 

Catherine Palace - Solveig's Song from the Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg)

 

P & P Fortress - 'The Romance' from Larsson's (Swedish composer) Pastoral suite

 

St Isaac's Cathedral - Piano concerto no.3, 1st movement by Rachmaninoff

 

Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood - The Creed by Gretchaninoff

 

Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum - Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev and Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love) from the soundtrack to Dr Zhivago by the Tony Osborne Orchestra.

 

The general idea was to use as much Russian music as possible. The choice for the Church on the Spilled Blood is to these tin ears a bit of a dirge but the friend who lent me the CDs for all this insisted that a Russian Orthodox Church must have Russian Orthodox Church. Fair enough I suppose :)

 

You videos brought back some great memories of my visit to St. Petersburg. Great job - thanks for sharing.

 

Cruzertwo

[volvof11]

Drat ! The correct link for Peterhof (amended in the above too) is

 

Apologies.

Thanks so much very informative.

Pauline

[pberk]

Nice job on the videos. Lots of information. I often find I learn more about a place when I'm back home than I did when I was there. The process of making the video always reveals things I didn't know. That whole Baltic trip is so fantastic ! .. For anyone on the fence about going --- DO IT .. Here's a link to my videos of our Baltic trip in 2009 ..

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/PandaCruises?feature=mhum