Just a moment I thought was worth documenting: rush-hour on Nevskiy Prospekt, St Petersburg, tonight.
Traffic in big cities like Moscow and St Pete is just unbelievable. I have been travelling to Russia now for 15 years. Things sure have changed over the years. Russians joke that back then, at night, you could lie down on one of Moscow's main arteries and sleep for a few hours without ever being disturbed. These days you get stuck in the type of traffic you see in the picture above. Very often you will be surrounded by the kind of cars that make one (ok, me) salivate: anything from Bentleys to Ferraris and everything in between (incidentally I was sitting in the Porsche Cayenne Turbo belonging to our main supplier in St Pete when I took this picture).
But funny enough sitting stuck in traffic like that allows one to take a good look around and really appreciate the magnitude, the beauty and the emotions evoked by a place like St Petersburg.
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