The streets in St. Petersburg, Russia, and also the streets in Helsinki were very clean, no litter and no graffiti at all... all the Baltic cities are really clean... the city of Tallinn, the capitol of Estonia was also very clean... in Tallinn, there's a modern section and an old section... oddly enough, the modern section looks drab and cold, with brown brick buildings and rusted metal roofs. In the old section of town, the place looked like an oil painting no matter where or which way you looked. I was tempted to stand in the middle of one of those five hundred year old cobble stone streets with an easel and oil paints and paint what I saw. The town is on the water; the scenery was incredible everywhere you looked. But, that was the old section. The newer modern section will probably not last the same five hundred years, probably not even another 100 years. The old section looked fresh, clean, and new. The modern section looked old, tired, and worn.
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