This is our second day in St. Petersburg. We had to be off the ship at 7am again. Our tour group is very good! No one is late. We drove around seeing new sights for awhile and then hit the metro. Because STP is built on a marsh, the stations are really far underground. We went down a very long one and then got on another. Luckily the up escalators were all working. At the bottom of each flight is a booth with a person in it making sure that all goes well. (One of the knitters had a terrible experience. A man fell on another person in her group. His arm was cut to the bone. The woman's shoulder was dislocated. She said the tour company was wonderful. The guide called the office and one person came to take the man to the hospital, another to take the woman back to the ship for an x-ray. My friend then discovered that a pickpocket had stolen her wallet with her passport, credit cards and money. She decided to go back to the boat also. Later, her passport turned up. I think the credit cards also, but she had already canceled them. The tour company gave everyone a bottle of vodka.)
Our visit was uneventful. We got on, rode two stops and got off. No one got lost.
The decorations in the metros are very elaborate. Mosaics and statues everywhere. One thing that was very noticeable was that no one smiles.
They are everywhere.
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