Petersburg, End

Time to finish this chronicle. Day 7, we got up early again and bused for another 3 hours or so to Novgorod. Once there we pretty much went straight to the Kremlin. Like Pskov, Novgorod is over 1000 years old and at one time was the biggest principality, until Moscow cam along. What can I say about yet another Kremlin? This one was bigger than most, maybe even Moscow’s, and had some restaurants and stores in addition to the churches. We toured around there a bit and then went into the old part of Novgorod.

This next place was a little interesting. You walk out of the Kremlin on the river side and have to walk across the windiest coldest bridge I have ever been on to reach the old section. Once there you literally see 5 churches well about as close as you can build 5 churches together without connecting them. It’s really just odd, but pretty amazing if there was ever a time when they were all active churches.

Hm, ya, so that was Novgorod, we were only there for about 5 or 6 hours, but lunch was pretty good. After we left we headed back to St. Petes and our train home. The train ride home was in 3rd class (we went up in 2nd). They are pretty much the same except for the lack of walls. No cars just a lot of beds, but as always our group was all together and we managed to make it an enjoyable experience. 12 hours later, we arrived in Vladimir and got to walk home in the rain.

That was Petersburg and then some, it was great.