Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at users.mns.ru
Fri Mar 23 16:30:53 CDT 2007
<<< And we need to save a whole day for the Hermitage, yes? >>> Rocky, I think Hermitage is as big as Louvre (Paris) - yes, if you "run trough" then one day should be enough. And there are also Russian Museum, Peterhof, Pushkin, Pavlovsk - Russian "equivalents" of D'Orse, Versailles, Fontainebleau... - you can plan one month and still it will be not enough to see all that architecture and museums we have here... -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:04 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Great Smokey Mountains AccessD Conference Shamil: I'm in. Probably have to bring the whole family. It will be our last summer with Max before he goes away to college. And we need to save a whole day for the Hermitage, yes? Regards, Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:13 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Great Smokey Mountains AccessD Conference Hi All, Thank you for your interest to visit St.Petersburg, Russia! Yes, AccessD conference if it happens to get "critical mass" of interested participants could be held here in summer 2008 or in September 2008... Yes, Rocky, summer could be short and rather cold here but not as short as you guessed. :) In fact we have already here now for a couple of days +15C (still I see some "crazy" ice-fishermen on Finnish Gulf ice, which is almost gone now) - this year we have here very unusual "hot" weather for this season - last year I have skied that time and even until 11th of April but that last year's winter was untypical snowy. If you have Google Earth you can see some pictures I made in the middle of March last year from Finnish Gulf ice around here: 59?58'29.78"N 30?11'30.35"E I'd say that the best season here for sightseeing is the first part of June with "White Nights" season being in the middle and the temperature around +15-+25 degrees Celsius. The hottest month here is July (+20-+30 or even +15-++35 Celsius) but humidity is rather high here and during hot July's days it's better stay out of the city... It could be also very good weather in the first ten days of May and in the first two weeks of September - the latter season, the "Indian Summer" is also very good usually for sightseeing but that time "White Nights" season is over (it ends in the middle of July). August isn't cold (+15-+20 Celsius) during the daytime but sometimes it could be very rainy and windy here... So, with very high probability it will not be less than +20-+25 degrees Celsius during the first ten days of July and it should be mainly sunny and "White Nights" season will be still here but if you folks are not afraid of some "cold" weather with +15-+20 degrees Celsius (and sometimes less than that) then I'd propose first part of June as the best season here because this season the city is still very fresh well washed after the winter, with new leaves on the trees, a lot of flowers and not that much tourists... Yes, they seems to wash city now every night during summer time (and they use shampoo - incredible luxury for Soviet times) but in July because of a lot of cars on the streets, very hot air and high humidity it becomes dusty on the streets of the city.... They build here five minutes by foots from my home a big super-duper modern business center - it will be called "Atlantic City". It could be ready on summer 2008 - how about having AccessD conference in it? Well, renting conference space there could be pricey - then we can find other less expensive options... As for BBQ party - that could be made on Finnish Gulf beach near to me or we can find many other more civilized places as restaurants etc. Of course McDonalds and KFC and all that "junk fast-food" and pizza etc. are also available here... Well, and vodka with caviar and mushrooms and salted cabbage and herring and (cold) borsch and other Russian foods specialties if you like to try are available here... Sorry, I didn't mention Hermitage and other museums, beautiful architecture, monuments etc. :) - I think that Lembit Soobik who has been here recently (cold winter time!) will tell more and better than me about all that for you to become eager to see all that beauty by your own eyes - I'm a kind of accustomed to live here (:)) and I can miss to tell about the most impressive things a Westerner can find and see here and about the most nasty and ugly pictures of this city... Thank you again for your interest to St.Petersburg, Russia. Hope to see a lot of you here during year 2008 AccessD conference. -- Shamil <<< tail skipped >>>