Repeating the Past- Journal Entries
by Tricia Reville
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5/20/2008 St. Petersburg, Russia
The woman working at the front desk called the airport and arranged to have my bag dropped off. Thank god. Today I went on the walking tour of St. Petersburg recommended in Lonely Planet. I walked a few miles on Nevsky Prospect which included Kazan Cathedral, Stroganov Palace, Bankovsky Most, the Catherine the Great statue, and the Anichkov Most.
I didn't realize that St. Petersburg is as far north as Oslo, Stockholm, and Helsinki--no wonder I'm the only one in sandals! It stays light out until midnight... No one really smiles, and no one haggles in the streets either.
I think it's ironic that I am visiting so many communist countries when I am the product and promoter of laissez-faire capitalism. I have respect for different systems. The fact that capitalism has succeeded may just be a coincedence, while data and economics back it up, we invented the system and the rules, so of course we call it a success.
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