Saying Venice of the North we usually mean Saint Petersburg. I have a great sentimental attachment to this city, bigger than to any other. Located on the Neva River, it is indeed cut with water from all sides. When I saw the first bridge in Stockholm, I started wondering if we haven’t mixed the planes. But the alphabet looked suspiciously familiar, the language was totally incomprehensible, so it rather wasn’t the case…
This similarity to Saint Petersburg made me and Stockholm like each other immediately. Well, I liked it, and took the lack of forecasted snowfall as a sign of reciprocation 🙂 As soon as we got to Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s old town I also felt the climate of small, Italian towns. Climate in metaphorical meaning though, literally it was far from nice, Italian temperature. It was much more Petersburg-like. 🙂 Italy and my beloved Petersburg make an almost perfect connection.
Your photos are really wonderful, they were very colorful. I wonder who took them and if you edited them at all?
Thank you 🙂 I took them and I do some editing but it’s quite minor. I usually sharpen the photos, boost up the color saturation (but only to the level when they look natural, the way it was in real life), I sometimes correct the white balance.
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