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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1405448, member: 31533"]The funniest thing happened when I was in St Petersburg, Russia. I was on a tour (the only one, and my guide was dual language so she spoke in English to me), and we were at Peterhof, winding our way through. There was a group of people off a cruise ship from Finland, and at several points we were right near an English (think British) speaking guy who was basically conducting his own "tour guide" program with some unfortunate "shipmates". We listened to him and it was so funny how much disinformation he was giving, as well as how he tried to sound like he knew everything about the place. We laughed several times, as well as observing the unfortunate souls who had to somehow make their way away from him. </p><p><br /></p><p>It made me very glad that I had arranged a private tour. I looked at it later, and I actually probably spent less in my 3 weeks in Russia/Poland and taking some private tours with English speaking guides and being picked up in a private car and not having to wait in lines than those people on the cruise ship from Finland. Crazy isn't it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1405448, member: 31533"]The funniest thing happened when I was in St Petersburg, Russia. I was on a tour (the only one, and my guide was dual language so she spoke in English to me), and we were at Peterhof, winding our way through. There was a group of people off a cruise ship from Finland, and at several points we were right near an English (think British) speaking guy who was basically conducting his own "tour guide" program with some unfortunate "shipmates". We listened to him and it was so funny how much disinformation he was giving, as well as how he tried to sound like he knew everything about the place. We laughed several times, as well as observing the unfortunate souls who had to somehow make their way away from him. It made me very glad that I had arranged a private tour. I looked at it later, and I actually probably spent less in my 3 weeks in Russia/Poland and taking some private tours with English speaking guides and being picked up in a private car and not having to wait in lines than those people on the cruise ship from Finland. Crazy isn't it?[/QUOTE]
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