A businessman walks past a Medicos sans Frontieres poster appealing for donations to fund the campaign to fight Ebola in West Africa.

A military brass band look disappointed at not having sold any copies of their CD to passing tourists having played a welcoming tune for tourists at Catherine Palace.

An American tourist proudly displays his bag of 'real fake' Faberge eggs. USD 10 will buy you a fine set of plastic tat from one of St Petersburg'' many street hawkers.

An enthusiastic group of musicians dressed in traditional costume, play for a group of lunching tourists on a tour of the Catherine Palace.

A couple of newly weds engage in their own romanic tourism and unwittingly become a tourist attraction themselves. It is common for newly weds to visit several locations across the city for romantic s...

A fake Peter the Great fob watch on sale at a tourist souvenir stall.

A stall selling a mix of Soviet and imperial style sailor's hats on shore in front of the Aurora battlecruiser, now a museum. The guns of the Aurora famously announced the start of the Russian Revolut...

A stall selling a mix of Soviet and imperial style sailor's hats on shore in front of the Aurora battlecruiser, now a museum. The guns of the Aurora famously announced the start of the Russian Revolut...

Two tourist hostesses, in faux-imperial military outfits, taking a cigarette break in front of the Aurora battlecruiser, now a museum. The guns of the Aurora famously announced the start of the Russia...

Two tourists take photos of each other on the Neva River front opposite the Hermitage.

A warning sign on a chain link fence at a jetty in Nynashamn. Each summer day boatloads of day trippers arrive here to visit the Swedish capital Stockholm. Stockholm itself is too small a port to allo...

Commuters exit the Finlyandskiy Railway Station, where Lenin arrived in 1917 from exile in Finland to start the Russian Revolution.

A tourist reads a map of Stockholm.

Chinese tourists use the free wifi in a cafe in Gamala Stan, the old city in Stockholm. Tourism in the Baltic has boomed in recent years with most cities, including Helsinki building new passenger ter...

A mother enjoys an ice-cream with her son on one of the Stockholm's foot ferries that ply the waterways between the city's islands.