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Saint Petersburg is huge. In its architecture, but also with its people. Almost five million live in Saint Petersburg. You don’t feel it while walking around in the inner city, though. There is so much empty space. At Gostinyj Dvor, one of Saint Petersburg’s oldest malls, in use in different shapes since the early 18thContinue reading “empty spaces in Saint Petersburg”

I was quite disappointed, actually. I had expected Saint Petersburg to be this hub of culture, both high and popular, and then the street art that we encountered was so uninspired and lacking. I guess we might not have been in the right places, though. Just a comparison, we basically only walked around in areasContinue reading “street art of Saint Petersburg”

Kirke, Hanna and I spent most of our time in Saint Petersburg walking around on the wide, windy streets.   I don’t know how many times we walked up and down Nevsky Prospekt, the main street of Saint Petersburg. Our hotel was basically at one end of it, and the Hermitage was at the other.Continue reading “city walks in Saint Petersburg (April 10-11)”

A bit more than a week ago, I went to Saint Petersburg for the weekend with my two oldest friends. It was intense. I’m in this thesis bubble right now, where the ups and downs of the thesis work rules my life. I sleep, eat, think only what and when the thesis allows. On theContinue reading “arriving in Saint Petersburg (April 9th)”

For hundreds of years before Ghana’s independence, the Europeans traded along the West African coast. Due to favorable geophysical conditions, the stretch of coastline that later became Ghana’s became the center of the European-West African trade. The competition was fierce between the Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Germans, Danes and even Swedes for a little while.Continue reading “at the slave fort (December 21st)”

It is funny, with the market here. It covers several blocks, and is partly made up of wooden stalls where they sell vegetables and other food, but also of rows of permanent cement structures. What makes it funny, is that about half of the market is made up of establishments dedicated to selling parts ofContinue reading “the market of Ouahigouya”

Elli and Desiré left early this morning to go do infiltration measurements in Reko. Me and Helena slept in, until seven. Such a nice, slow morning. Helena was going back to Ouagadougou today, but before she took the bus we decided to take a walk through Ouahigouya, just to have seen something of it. AndContinue reading “a stroll through the town”