tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post3008342391138038872..comments2024-02-07T11:31:44.141+03:00Comments on On Life in St. Petersburg: From the kitchen windowElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-18083517449089647572013-01-24T15:16:30.192+04:002013-01-24T15:16:30.192+04:00Yeah, true. I suppose it is on our to-do list but ...Yeah, true. I suppose it is on our to-do list but seeing as how it has taken us 4 months to get the Internet installed in our apartment, it may take us a while...Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-82910681378495363222013-01-21T03:54:25.538+04:002013-01-21T03:54:25.538+04:00They are flimsy, but here's the thing - you hi...They are flimsy, but here's the thing - you hit a big pile of snow, or a hole or something hard to negotiate, and you can just pick it up and lift it over - MUCH easier!Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623179886908222942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-13727050977615440722013-01-16T13:21:33.125+04:002013-01-16T13:21:33.125+04:00Funny. In our last apartment we lived on the 3rd f...Funny. In our last apartment we lived on the 3rd floor and NEVER took the elevator. Before that I lived on the 5th floor and there wasn't one. Before that I lived on the 4th floor and ALWAYS used the elevator. Funny how you just sort of get into the habit of doing something.<br /><br />They are changing the water ducts or whatever they're called, throughout the whole city! The funny thing is that every time I move, the construction comes to that neighborhood! It's happened 3 times in a row now...3 or 4 winters of climbing over a little bridge to get out of my apartment complex. Yes, those holes are deep!<br /><br />The umbrella stroller idea has been mentioned to us. I think we will probably get one. They seem sort of flimsy in this weather but I have seen them out and about. David will be sitting up soon, so we'll think about it.<br />Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-7244994795216493572013-01-16T04:38:08.759+04:002013-01-16T04:38:08.759+04:00My Moscow friends live on the fifth floor with no ...My Moscow friends live on the fifth floor with no elevator - I think it must be healthy (but I wouldn't care for it). <br /><br />I noticed in Ivanovo that they were replacing the sidewalks downtown - making them very attractive, out of brickwork, but every twenty feet or so, there is a trough to take water from the store roofs to the street - not covered ones - an open ones... maybe 9 inches wide and six inches deep. I felt like I really needed to be paying full attention not to fall in them! Can't imagine that with a light covering of snow - or if you were vision impaired. And, of course there was the bridge there, which over our five years of trips got into more and more disrepair until the "weak spot" ended up as a LARGE hole where an entire wheelchair could have fallen through - to say nothing of people! <br /><br />My best advice regarding the stroller is to scrap the elegant heavy one and go with an umbrella stroller. Took me quite a while to realize that though it doesn't look as classy, it is SO much easier to negotiate and if I attach a selection of bags to the front and back (just looping them over the handles etc.) I have as much carrying power. They don't look as comfortable, but my littles have never balked at getting in there and going right to sleep. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623179886908222942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-35340365453163869902013-01-15T16:29:00.400+04:002013-01-15T16:29:00.400+04:00That would be hard! I know some friends who live p...That would be hard! I know some friends who live pretty high up with no elevator, but they're able to keep the strollers down on the first floor. Still, it would be hard with baby+groceries. Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-18565743265734108832013-01-15T00:29:02.851+04:002013-01-15T00:29:02.851+04:00I loved this little peak into your life in Russia....I loved this little peak into your life in Russia. Sounds like you have some challenges getting around with a little one - I'm so happy we're no longer in our apartment which was three flights up with no elevator!Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745470127207480213noreply@blogger.com