Canals

If you have ever been to St. Petersburg, then you should know that that city is full of canals. In case you haven’t, I’ll just tell you that that city is full of canals. They pretty much all resemble this one in the picture. A funny little piece of history is that this were built by Peter the Great. However, when they were completed they turned out to be too small to allow the major shipping traffic that Peter had hoped to get. Apparently it was a big regret for Peter that he could never have the canals he had wanted. Of course they are still here and are very pretty. The neat thing is that during the winter, with the almost constant freezing temperatures all the canals in the city, as well as much of the Neva (river that runs through Peter), and some of the Gulf of Finland too. As you walk around the city you can see tons of paths that people have made walking across these frozen canals. It’s really cool, I even saw one guy doing jumping jacks in the middle of the Neva (it’s a big river my friends). So of course I had to try this for myself. I mean how many people can say they’ve walked across a river? Not many. We also had a snowball fight on the Gulf of Finland. (Peterhof, next to the Gulf of Finland)