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No.1661
>>1592>But a lot of sex-shopsWhat is the real reason behind this? I get, that cities with a huge readlight district (like Amsterdam, Hamburg or Thailand) have a lot of cities sex-shops. But why Saint-Petersburg?
Besides this, I really love this city, looks butifel and in the far away future, I would love to visit it.
No.1682
>>1661I have other explanations but they all as well come down to stereotype of Spb being decadent and romantic place.
BTW I forgot to tell a cool thing about that sphinxes (actually, there are two of them there). Not only they are at least ten times older than any other structure in the city, but they're also older than the river on the pic. It didn't exist three thousands years ago. By that time Indo-Europeans already lived here and they called the river Neva (New).
I'll investigate this city more in-depth this summer, provided that everything goes well.
No.1684
>>1661>>1682Our HR lady from sbp started talking about having been a sex counselor and taking sex health classes and shit, during office lunch time.
stereotype checks out
No.1686
>>1682>sphinxesOnly cost 64,000 rubles. Roughly 30K US dollars adjusted for inflation. 15K each. Stuff used to be cheap.
No.1689
>>1688Sharon Stone weighs in at 1920 ounces which, translated into silver, gives her a current value of $45,000. Add in William Baldwin at $64,000 and Tom Berenger for another $68,000 and we can see that
Sliver is worth 177k.
Roughly 1/12 of the purchase price for the Saint Petersburg sphinxes.
No.1693
>>1689>Roughly 1/12 of the purchase price for the Saint Petersburg sphinxes.You gotta start somewhere.
No.11844 KONTRA
>>11841A shame for Russia that Germany has been destroyed and Germany doesn't exist anymore. Germans have been successfully genocided and replaced with mixed race Africans, arabs, a few Mediterranean influence, and very little German
No.11912
>>11844At least Putin spent some years in Dresden among People and had a chance to absorb a bit of their wisdom
No.14509
>>14496Waddup with that huge russian flag? I thought that's illegal on the balics?
No.14510 KONTRA
>>14493That's home. Nice pictures.
>>14509Russian embassy.
No.14518
>>14490Cute photos but they don't show general image. Could you also summarize and write your impressions (about Finland and Estonia)?
No.14520 KONTRA
>>14509Does the Russian flag 'trigger' you, homo?
No.14525
>>14518>Could you also summarize and write your impressions (about Finland and Estonia)?I was faced with a complete lack of third party funding during my ethnographic studies of people in the Baltic sea area. While some of us have easy access to lavish funds to advance their studies of choice, I had to make do with self-funding which limited the scope of my inquiries into Baltic identity. For this reason, I can only speak on the capitals of each country.
Helsinki:
A clean and quiet city. Hel-Looks is, believe it or not, a good representation of a substantial demographic of Helsinki's inhabitants. Style over function is something that its residents adhere to, even if they lack the ability to truly 'style'. The city has its own style of architecture, mixing imperial designs with more modern stuff but without sacrificing the appearance of organic growth. Contradictions in the behavior of its inhabitants are visible from comparing their behavior during weekdays and the weekend. The collected, repressed and very polite behavior that typically characterizes the Finns is washed away with alcohol and they revert back to savagery, loudness and become unexpectedly extroverted. It may be impossible to have a Finnish person start a conversation on his own initiative on a Thursday evening, but on a Saturday night, they will approach you - wary and inquisitive towards outsiders. There are lot of boats in the hundreds of docks around the city that are linked by cycling paths. As previously learned on EC, they're fond of calling their swamp an archipelago.
Tallinn:
A smaller city. Extensive construction works downtown has been ongoing for years, and that's what one sees. Glass skycrapers dominate the immediate center outside of the old city, soviet apartment complexes dot the surrounding area, with the odd Russian style wooden house surviving to today. Also a clean city, but a more lively one. The old town has constant activity and the native inhabitants seem happier than those in Helsinki. They're also easier to approach under normal conditions. I don't have anything but nice things to say about Tallinn.
Up next, Riga:
The coolest looking city I visited, the one with the shittiest most mafia ridden night scene and the best food.
No.14808
>>14800Polish people have not forgotten Volyn, which is not surprising given the cult of Bandera in Ukraine. They say "we stand with Ukraine" but it's just a desire to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian man, while draining refugee women to Poland. No wonder that Poles are blockading Ukrainian roads at the border.
ZVZVZV rape the homos ZVVZVVZ
No.14809
>>14808Things that will happen during the coming year:
1.) Trump wins US election
2.) NATO is disolved, finally
3.) German government is replaced by AfD-dominated right-wing government
Then, Poland can be divided again, and the de-niggerisation of Europe can begin.
No.14816 KONTRA
>>14809>1.)>2.)>3.)What an odd way of writing a number order, you'd think the dots and the parenthesis would be mutually exclusive. At this point I just hope 4.) is the total anal prolapse of every citizen of the Bundesrepublik.
No.14828
>>14816№4.) Elimination of apartheid regimes in Baltic states, trials on Nazi enablers.
No.15700
Day 4, Part 1: Sequoia National Park
The journey on this day requires at least two posts to capture the breadth of this experience. I rank this as the highlight my time in California.
The drive from Bakersfield to Sequoia National Park on Route 65 might alone be a highlight unto itself because of the stark contrast on two opposing sides. On one side, oil drills constantly worked day and night seeking to extract precious black gold. On the other side, acres upon acres of agriculture cultivating everything from citruses to nuts stretched for miles. The heavenly floral scent from the acres of orange groves filled the car ride for miles on end.
Upon arriving at Sequoia National Park at the Lake Kaweah area, we were informed we would require snow chains before admittance which led to a temporary diversion. Upon returning, the park ranger further up the hill later informed us we wouldn't need them on account of our 4W drive vehicle. A waste of $65 on renting snow chains, but you could do worse, I suppose.
What immediately struck us was the contrast in climate with the mountains being high enough to experience snowfall. We packed for spring weather, but thankfully, we still had flannel coats and jeans. The General Sherman Tree and the Tough Twin Sequoia trees were nothing short of breathtaking.
A Dutch family was kind enough to photograph me and my mother, and they were equally kind enough to be photographed next to yours truly.
No.15717 KONTRA
Why the hell am I a leaf?
No.15722
>>15700Those trees are indeed pretty cool. Cool pictures.
No.15723
Stunning nature, I'm envy.
And that mansion looks like it's in heaven.
Thanks for the photos.
No.15729 KONTRA
>>15728Eh, 2,5/10, one of them made me smile.
No.15734
10/10
t.IWO rater
Love that mural in San Luis Obispo.
No.15888
>>15859Feels bad that I never saw a flamingo while living in Florida. Closest I came were spoonbills. Some old guy pointed them out to my brother. Called them "flamingos". Ummm. No.
No.19058 KONTRA
> (not counting southern sea resorts)
Or even counting them. Better go to Turkey than to Sochi.
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Had a surprisingly good time in Tbilisi. The city feels historical and alive unlike any place that I've visited in Russia
No.22261
>>22259>The city feels historical and alive unlike any place that I've visited in RussiaWhat about Yalta? Is Yalta not Russian?
No.22270
>>15888(replying to old post)
Reminds me of when I was in (at?) an ethnographic museum. Another visitor, a child, was looking at Mongolian Mongols in Mongolia, with their yaks and gers, in a room about them and their folk Buddhist items and nothing else. Child exclaims something like "Indians!" or "Buffaloes!"
Child's parents didn't say anything. I wonder if they just didn't bother to correct the child, or didn't have the faintest idea about the exhibits themselves.
>>22261Perhaps they just haven't visited Yalta yet. But I think a key difference is that Tbilisi is still inhabited mostly by a people that has always been there (even if it has lost diversity), whereas Yalta and all of Crimea is mostly inhabited by culturally foreign newcomers and probably feels fake and sterile after all the disruptions, deportations and genocides of the last centuries.
No.22420
>>22270still mad about that conference?Not him, but Crimea is overpriced because for people with clearance level (many of military officers, FSB, MIC workers) it's the only possible choice as they can't leave the country until the clearance expires. Or because they have state-subsidized vacations there like gf's parents. They love Yalta and want to move there when their youngest child goes to college.
Georgia is overpriced too, but for another reason. Because people who left Russia in 2022 can't get into better country. So it's a pretty curious place, having vegan queer cafes and horizontal safe spaces. Like Tangier was for beatniks.
Good options for ordinary Russian (poorfag without Schengen visa) are Thailand and Turkey.