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hello to you. on this week's program i'll be exploring the various hotels and restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time. growing the glorious summer when i'm a late evening light and it's one crew party town it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget. of her tells ranging from comfortable small hotels to. today i'm sure going into the bridge her towel when you arrive know to the hotel we'll take your passports and do your fish registration for you. to do worry. for

a few hours. very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date. staying here will be an experience you will never forget. we have a very noisy mixture of course the most common throughout the summer and. their management of international companies plenty of tourists from. all over europe. if you're visiting the capital on a budget but she does hotel accommodation in st petersburg can be found at older soviet era hotels some of which to me classrooms as well as more comfortable renovated interior is. for me to go to my room even though such rooms are more expensive sometimes. apartments or suites can work out cheaper especially when charged a room instead of a person wherever you decide to stay do your math research for deals and office on

the internet. expensive breakfast buffets and how many times you might need taxis for example because often you'd be surprised the high end hotels you want come cheaper in the long run. out of more than three hundred rooms there are various luxury apartments and suites like this one here perfect for families and celebrity entourages they come with several connecting bedrooms and a large living room with kids from the seventy's so whenever you're bored of eating out don't worry as you can always make the good old trusted carry here. time to eat and we've arrived at. opened in two thousand and seven this one teacher is one of the brightest newcomers petersburg's restaurant scene question national study domania features various cuisine. in tallinn japanese and russian dishes you know vegetarian meals as well and also wide variety of tasty beautiful desirous things that. booking is advised if you want to eat here soft

sofas in pillows easy lounge music an ambience peaceful people and simply does beg school just sky this is the ideal place for dinner after a busy day of sightseeing. now it's time for me to travel through it. gorgeous a burial and a good thing i love about the city is all the good locations if you do your research take a look on the internet all the local guys you'll find some incredible places new restaurants popping up every week and teressa here i think has the best location in the city just look at the stunning because i could be behind this and just by the down the road you can see the church of the spilt blood. solitaire it's not see what it tastes like. while. absolutely beautiful. a city known for its revolutions over the last ten years

there's been a different type of uprising that of the restaurant and hotel scene times have changed in the former capital now offer some of the best food and lodgings in russia and to discuss the western influence and development of simply dispense cultural scene let's meet this week's cast. me very nice to meet you so you're the general manager here at the hotel yes i have been here like since january. in some petersburg and from in russia now for four years but i came here in. i definitely think that this is my thing so so so every every morning when i wake up i can't wait that here and start my day so it seems that the different hotels and restaurants are opening every single week in the city at the moment you know this is just booming because like when i came here like four years ago they were basically the few feist store hold us in the market but now we are

getting more and more not only for the store but they also also hold those in some other segments or for for all the old of travelers who wants to come to be this so now it's currently white nights and surely you must see a huge influx of tourists coming to the city just the greatest actually no need to walk back like come from from finland from hills and have exactly the same thing but they have done so great job with the white knights here so so so i don't understand that white people chose some petersburg instead of heels and it's just because of the theme. say that but the great job well done great great great p.r. marketing acts and this is this is the time of the year to come here if you want to enjoy. with this beautiful. regarding cultural activities it seems that the list is absolutely endless from pizza hoff to captain's palace to barry trips it's amazing

yes that's true but on the other hand i would love to say that the there are no younger generation who comes to experience life here experience nightlife. they don't even need those excuses that there's a palace next visit next to the hole though they just want to see how the life goes here they rather go for clapping you know this is the great city also for that to be for all worst most all so while it's wonderful it's great to meet you all the best of luck with your time here at the top thank you it was nice to meet you too. moving on and what other hotels and restaurants i was mentioning in sim petersburg the backpackers there are some great places to stay in the north the capital which would burn a hole in your pocket location hostel situated in the heart of the city of his wonderful views a palace square from its windows bring prices here just six hundred rubles that's roughly around twenty dollars and night the concepts hostel as they call it also

boasts contemplative zine and a friendly and international atmosphere not only will be given a bed for the night but as the host still supports many answers to projects they also offer advice in the most keeping happening venusian events in the city. one of our projects is unlike asian hostel guide it's a nontraditional city featuring the most interesting places in the city you know how mil opinion includes information on where to downs eat or shop and there are all kinds of places from flea markets to concepts stores from two to five star places but that's the rights i use. when visiting look around for many of the city's yards and many of them you'll find cozy restaurants diplo meeting wolf is a so-called living room restaurant. the interiors of it several holes in terraced are indeed very homey and if you're traveling with children there's even a special room for them. next up the new ball cooled twenty two thirteen inspired

with traveling around the world it's jungle if you just owners and created a fashionable place to lunch and also cocktails after dark. the bombing at the venue make amazing drinks and there's also a sweet shop here ten macaroons the takeaway place. one more ranking on the interior is if you wanted the venue to represent and family comfort for example the sofa was brought from the flagships now boutique in paris it took a long time to proceed the owner to sell a time she didn't understand what i needed the old one down so far for what we believe in power energy and philosophy of furnishings but history. the dorm we too bought and cafe is located in a soviet building of the same name meaning consumer services center it's interiors with old furniture resembles the atmosphere of an apartment in the times of the u.s.s.r. during the day there are dishes of russian and european cuisine on the menu well at night the venue turns into allow

a busy night club. next up when we've arrived at our final location the w. hotel. launched in one thousand nine hundred eight the brand has since expanded with over fifty hotels and resorts around the world. if you're looking for stylish accommodation find better than the trust to double your best hotel recently and already it's packed full of the who's who of st petersburg jetsetting tourists with just one hundred thirty seven rooms the service is. if you do stay here but i do recommend that you bring your credit card. as well as a spectacular rooftop bar and the bliss pool and spa the hotel boasts a restaurant cool makes. it invites guests to enjoy telenor we must to pieces by linda cass the master of french cooking in the world records man for the number of michelin stars. st petersburg is amazing cultural historic

and ground to try our best to harmonize the cuisine with the city's spirits through to be top quality and at the same time reasonably priced to either of us dollars or thirty. the fullness of the north is a great city for dining out with restaurants to suit every pocket from humble backpack is to a list celebrities as for accommodation simplest most hotels range from grand historic properties to budget many hotels and wherever that may be in st petersburg it's ultimately the wealth of culture and history that will amaze you and most of that is for free. very light so wherever you sleep eat all visit here in st petersburg this is you will never fail to disappoint and that's all the time we have on this week's program so i'll see you again at the same time next week for more adventures around the former russian capital until then for me and the rest of the crew from the beautiful and balance of the never read.

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legislators love to work fast to avoid default. s.s. veterans have gathered for their annual march in the stonier but it's once again caused outrage among activists who say turning a blind eye to such meetings could lead to more tragedies similar to what happened like. as mentioned of about the news in full view in fifteen minutes time next though sport with kate's football tops the. and i will do this for two years and these are the headlines. top tussles in form and you will the story mill its former champions rybin in one of three top flight battles in the russian probably. while red bull flying sebastian vettel edges out lewis hamilton in qualifying for the hunter gather to go on please take his eight pole position of the season. and attend

a touch week here for giving up his golf he's not feeling the pressure off to becoming the n.h.l.'s highest paid goaltender. and we start with football where in form and you have leap frog routine into four spots falling and shocks we know trancing of the twice former champions on their home turf in cars on the first off was a tentative affair and then six minutes after the interval brazil legend about the call us and a long range free kick a gold mine that said it was guilty of a howler as much idea of these days off then midway through the second half of this process found that the alexander could make off the stones the unfortunately ticked off his first top flight goal in almost three years and things went from bad to worse for being. a stoppage time penalty this is a hat to retake the spot kick but he actually netted both attempts to eat the three no scoreline undies following into raptures.

so i don't redeem strides down to fifth in the standings with sponsor moscow two points back only a disappointing one one draw against japan in this material no that isn't saving at least some of the sponsors russia has had to see of a fifty second finished equaliser. wall in the early kick off to a one one there at home thanks to another gold in the ground into the into gold. speculative leavening that solve a free kick was inexplicably fumbled by such as you call me up as a lot of was left with a simple tap in that proved to be the difference have at winning on the road he's liberia. while in the meantime some also has rejected a lucrative bid fobbed free spending on e.g. the internet land and cameron striker has turned down a reported twenty million euros a year which would have made him the world's highest paid player instead of the thirty year old opted to stay it into to give himself the chance of competing for what could be a fifth champions league title. now there are two weeks ago until the start of

a new premier league season in england and also manager aston vanga says he wants to quickly resolve the future of his captain says fabregas the midfielder is missing from the ghana squad for this weekend's emirates cup which will also involves a genius harrison from a. red bulls watch the twenty four year old absence has increased speculation he could be on his way to barcelona. because. at the moment. he's coming back from an injury is not settled with dos you know that all the speculation. around. his position. has to be sorted out soon. and staying in england and liverpool captain steven gerrard he sets to be out until september the time because of an infection in his morning thirty one year old midfielder is now on antibiotics and should be in hospital for several days going surgery had ended gerard season in march but he was

expected to return to the start of the new campaign he could also miss england's two euro twenty twelve when it was against bulgaria and wales as well as premier league fixtures against arsenal and bolton. moving on to formula one where defending champion sebastian vettel edged out lewis hamilton in qualifying for the hungaroring wrong to take his eight pole position of the season last week's home race in germany was a disappointment for vettel as the world champion finished outside the pages the first time this year but when you just really broke a curfew on working overnights to overhaul veterans car and changes helped him get back on top edging hamilton by less than two tenths of a second the second metallic jenson button lined up third headed for i sleep a master. by fernando alonso for the first time this season for his win in hungary mark webber starting six. we changed a lot on the car overnight and the boys were working pretty hard. and i didn't get

much sleep but i think you know if we have a result like this today. i think it's the best way to do so you think so i'm very happy and as i said i've got the confidence back today i felt much more comfortable in the car and here now i'm looking forward to tomorrow. in tennis russia's top ranked man mikhail youzhny has failed to reach his first final of the season after the world number fourteen was yet again knocked out in the last four this time this was open usually it was seeded third english bad but was broken in the first game by spaniard marcel got no years and trailed five one after a quarter of an hour's play he did pull one break back though still conceded the opening set six three yet he battled back to take the second on the same score line an early break gave him a tool of lead in the dislike that but i know his world of six straight games and sealed the win with ace number five taken patrick amanda a lot. in the final. athletics now and two time olympic pole vault

champion elena by ever so she is on course to reclaim her world title in south korea next month after the russian won gold at the latest diamond league meeting in stockholm the world record holder four meters and seventy six centimeters. of germans schlegel and american for sir isn't by ever written last week disappointment. and she no points it meanwhile the same boat cruised to victory in the men's two hundred meters in a time of twenty point zero three seconds lindsey edwards from panama was second with jamaica's ainslie whites in third and is coming back from a twenty one month drugs ban was the sure merit in the men's four hundred meters the american was happy with his second place finish jamaican jermaine gonzalez christopher brown from the bahamas completed the podium while carmelita jeter still dominates the women's one hundred meters the american one in eleven point one five seconds it was

a strong headwind. in rugby union defending champions new zealand trained their biggest ever winning margin over the springboks on home turf as they thrashed south africa forty points to seven in the tri nations in wellington when the corrie jane made his case to be included in the all blacks world cup squad scored. a stunning try in the thirty third minute help with the host and a team seven off time late. he then added another try five minutes after the break zach gilford also went over twice for new zealand and it's from white crosses and colin slade well done cause also we claimed the all time test point record for england's jonny wilkinson and a convert to the penalty his first attempt points to south africa the result was their second defeat of this year's trying nations having also lost to australia and will face next weekend in oakland. on a much as expected of ice hockey player in a blues golf after the russian became the n.h.l.'s highest ever paid goaltender

however the thirty one year old believes he's up to the challenge and looking forward to joining his new team the philadelphia flyers. in philadelphia it's a very successful i've been using. the heaviest stability video ownership they have always put some highest goal in hockey perspective and always wants to win the stanley cup or compete for the stanley cup i like this idea they spend the money they give it to the players everything they want they want you know but they need a result. first of all feeling it's a hard media but i think i'm ready for that to deal with the media and the pressure point dave i signed a contract with the understanding all consequences is could be you know it's time

i'm ready for this and i want to be a guy who want to carry this team because i bring the phoenix coyotes twice to the play out but we're going to have a success it's partially my fault too you know special days. here but you know since. it's nothing new for me. when i play i don't think about the money and when the use specially yeah when you're signed a big contract it's nice you you know your family and your children secure you know and you can are a lot since just working because you know professional sports so. you can be filled with one. car teenagers you know a god. then everything can top and you know and when the secure dates you're saying

things like old shots to give you more. natural locks there is. more kind of a freedom to play and create. to . be in the media of nine easy one day play and just start call come over to the united states there was making from the different country right there right now and to have a different talented team from there. so you don't have any right when you can. train to find drink if you want to buy some food you can you can buy what you can buy a car you know you you can you can get whatever you like right. compared to the so you at union and probably someplace was not ready for this you know and. maybe some

racial you take the soup discipline right now is there if you can send. the. winning team right now to the states most players. why they came here. leaders. before us and right now playing in a chill day have a good trip with they have no problems we've. managed mean rock to use you know. we did. and that's why i think. download the official placation. i pod touch from the top still.

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