We had a wonderful city break in St. Petersburg.\u00c2\u00a0 All the arrangements went smoothly, and the sun shone everyday making the golden domes and pastel-washed buildings really beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 We had pre-booked a city sightseeing tour for our first morning, and a guided tour\/overview of the Hermitage on the second morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Our guide, Julie, was excellent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c knowledgeable and friendly, and our driver was pleasant and skilled in the ways of the St. Petersburg traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 He always managed to find a good place to stop to look at the sights and take photos.<\/p>\n
Julie recommended a lovely restaurant, where we had all our meals, because the staff were so welcoming,\u00c2\u00a0tried so hard with their English; and where we wanted to try as much as we could from the extensive, delicious and very reasonably priced menu.\u00c2\u00a0 We thoroughly recommend this restaurant.\u00c2\u00a0 It is called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTeplo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>which I think means \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWarmth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 Address:\u00c2\u00a0 45 Bolshaya Morskaya Str. (Tel: 5701974; <\/strong>www.v-teple.ru<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n We were staying at the Hotel Herzen House in the same street, so it was also very convenient to get to.<\/p>\n The Herzen House Hotel<\/strong> was very comfortable and the staff pleasant and helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 The outside was initially off-putting, because it was covered with green material, presumably while work was being carried out on the fabric of the building; but once inside, we found our room had everything we needed.\u00c2\u00a0 The under floor heating in the bathroom was wonderful, and the bed very restful.<\/p>\n We would thoroughly recommend Baltic Travel Company to anyone interested in travelling to that part of the world.\u00c2\u00a0 We would now love either to go to another Baltic country with them or to return to St. Petersburg, though next time we would base ourselves in a different part of the city so that we could explore another area on foot and make fresh discoveries.<\/p>\n Angela Warr<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had a wonderful city break in St. Petersburg.\u00c2\u00a0 All the arrangements went smoothly, and the sun shone everyday making the golden domes and pastel-washed buildings really beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 We had pre-booked a city sightseeing tour for our first morning, and a guided tour\/overview of the Hermitage on the second morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Our guide, Julie, was excellent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baltictravelcompany.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}