I'm tentatively planning on a return visit in 2009. Probably Autumn (Fall), and again I'd hire the services of an English speaking guide, for as you say it makes a huge difference. Yet I also appreciated the long, solo, quiet walk I took back in 1996. Several hours alone, within a couple of kilometres radius of the intourist Hotel. The walk included a walk across the frozen Volga, looking at the city from the river, trying to imagine seeing it from that angle in 1942/43. Very special day of my life. Being THERE. Paul Innes.
Australia.
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