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From Barbara and Wayne Shamblin shambaway@aol.com
8.10.08
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Dear Maria,
See you thought we had forgotten you, not true. We had such a wonderful time in St. Petersburg, you will always remain in our memories. Wayne and I only took a little over 1200 photos on our cruise so it has taken us awhile to go thru and pick out the best ones or at least the ones that best tell the story of our cruise. Most of the pictures were of your beautiful city, St. Petersburg.
Sure hope all is well with you and your daughter. Again thank you for making our time in St Petersburg so much fun. With your expertise and knowledge, we feel we were able to see and learn all that is possible for two days time.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Barbara and Wayne Shamblin
Your Texas Friends
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From Jill and Robert jillleis@shaw.ca
17.07.08
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Hello Maria,
I'm sure you are having a busy summer and will have forgotten all about the 'strenuous' tour that you did for us. We are the foursome off the Princess ship at the beginning of the season (may24 & 25) when the lineups through customs and into the port were extremely long. We toured all day then went to the folk show and followed that up with a night cruise on the canal....no doubt you will recognize our photos. I would just like to say once again that you did a fabulous job... Cannot tell you how very much we all enjoyed the tour and the Information you shared with us!!!! I have given your name to several friends who will be traveling to St Petersburg and I told them they should contact you directly.
All the best,
Jill and Robert
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From Darren blazebuster@ntlworld.com
18.05.08
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Hello Maria,
Thank you so much for all your help in St Petersburg. I am still amazed about your knowledge of the city, it was so interesting.
Regards!
Conference of Fireman
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From Randall Peeters rlpeeters@msn.com
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From the letter to Geographic Bureou management:
I want to commend our Saint Petersburg guide, Vankova U. Maria. She was exceptional and went way beyond the normal call of duty to help us out. We really appreciated her and found her to be very competent and a pleasure to be with.
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From Jean-Paul Ducarme jpducarme@brutele.be
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Masha,
We got back in Brussels on Saturday evening after a very shiny morning in St Petersburg. On behalf of my whole family, I wanted to thank you very much for the outstanding job you performed for us in St Petersburg and in Novgorod. We all enjoyed it tremendously. We took many pictures and a video film that we watched tonight. It was great !By the way, the weather here has been awful: rain and cold. I went back to the office today and everybody complained about the lousy weather.Good luck for the future and do not forget your outstanding invitation to Paris. We will be waiting to hear from you. With kind regards,
Jean-Paul Ducarme
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From Ian and Nancy jpducarme@brutele.be
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Dear Masha:
We are back in Canada, after our wonderful trip to St. Petersburg.
Thank you for being such an excellent guide. We interrupted you so many times with our questions and you were always very patient. When we saw some of the guides who worked in the Hermitage, we felt very grateful that you were so patient with us, and always so gracious.
It was Nancy's first trip to Russia and she saw many things that were new. I hope we can come again some day and in the meantime will not hesitate to recommend you to anyone else whom we know may wish to visit your beautiful city.
All the best
Ian and Nancy
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