St. Petersburg is pretty cool. My first impression was that it is just really like Manhattan (it is... a lot of turn of the century stuff). Today, though, it was finally nice and clear out (cold, too, but that made it better). It really felt like "the North."
Anyhow, I struck out on my own today and checked out the Ethnographic Museum, and Peter's cabin. Went down Nevsky, found Dom Knigi, but it's being worked on and is closed. I tried to go to the Buddhist temple (read they had a Buryat restaurant there), but wasn't sure where it was, and turned back.
Had Carl's Junior for dinner (we had Pizza Hut last night, and Uzbek the night before).
Looking forward to getting back to Moscow, it really feels like home now.