Arena

Barely few hours inside St.Petersburg, we decided to go out and see what the local area is all about. After walking for about ten minutes, we reached Historic Palace Square, which has seen birth of many revolutions that shook the world. We took some photographs with Alexander column in the background...spent a few more minutes in this wide open area and then started walking again. We enquired few people on the streets to find out whether there is any good place closeby to have a few drinks....Most of them spoke Russian and we had no clue except saying "Spasibo" i.e. Thank You to whatever they uttered.

Eventually, we entered a bar called 'Bubble Bar'....dont know the logic behind that name. I was personally feeling very irritated with all the bubble shaped lights being flashed on the walls...Anyways, bar had nothing special...music was loud...environment was ordinary... but we had to start somewhere so there we were. It was barely 8 p.m so it was too early to have a good crowd in the bar. To make the matters worse, we had one of our serious lady professor enjoying our company. We ordered some mild drinks before vodka shots arrived. Few shots down and we started to open up a bit. Lady Professor also started enjoy our company....I heard her saying "you guys are well mannerred compared to previous batches in the past"....I felt sorry for her :) Another half an hour went by and we started chatting about various things we experienced in the past.....some experiences were really interesting :)

We noticed a mid-aged person (looked like security personnel) watching us all the time, so we were tentative in whatever we did or said..you never know....KGB...By the time our session ended, we became favourite students of our professor. She did not knew that one of my friend had already started hitting on the curly haired waitress (looking more Spanish than Russian) behind the bar...Around 11, it was time to move on to a better club. We came out and started walking....Anther 20 feet....and there we see some really tough looking bouncers/security standing outside this club and not allowing anyone to go in....

They would not let us in as well.....because we were not with pretty girls, we did not dressed in white shirts and jeans, we did not had a table reserved, we didn’t look familiar, our skin color was different ..basically we all looked like aliens to them. Few minutes of smart talk and they let us in....Pounds do speak ;).

We did not knew we were about to enter into one of the Russia’s best clubs named 'Arena'. That night we rocked the club....had some great time...danced after a long time...reminded me of my days when we did some serious partying.