They are two very different places. Canals, 300+ years buildings, compact, densely populated, cool, wet, you can hear 10 different languages spoken in a 10 minute walk down the street, bars, pubs, and restaurants on every corner. Drink beer like water.
Flat, brown and tan, clear skies, very cold in winter, very hot in summer, salt dried out on the coastal plain, free range camels, horses, sheep, new construction, most everyone who lives there speaks Russian and Kazakh, three times the size of Texas with 15 million people. Drink vodka like water.
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