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Last day in St. Petersburg
... rest of the formal rooms in the palace due to the fact that the walls were covered in Chinese silk. Other decor in the room was typical for the palace's formal rooms, a ceiling mural, gilded carvings. The elegant card-tables and inlaid wood commode display Japanese, Chinese, and Berlin porcelain.
The Green Dining Room, which replaced Rastrelli's "Hanging Garden" in 1773, is the first of the rooms in the northern wing of the Catherine ...
St Petersburg
... are a lot deeper and they are further apart. On the crossover stations you walk about 500mtr between stations. The Hotel was also pretty easy to find so I got here early. I dumped my bags and headed off for some breakfast. While I was out I thought I would go and check out some sights, so I headed to SS Peter & Paul Fortress. This was built by Peter the Great as defence against any possible attack from the Swedes. It was never used as a fort and became ...
The Hermitage- pretty OK really
... by Hil the couple made it to the Peter, Paul and Mary Fortress only to enjoy about 5 minutes of stunning architecture before the vision was blurred by the onset of torrential rain whipping up across the Neva. Nevertheless John thoroughly enjoyed getting absolutely soaking wet while Hil sulked for not bringing the umbrella! Despite the inclement weather the brides were parading on the banks of the ...
Affairs of the (he)arts
... metro station to meet a couple of SRAS girls before we went out to the Hermitage Storage Facility. We met and went to the appointed station, only to find out that our coordinator had told us to meet at the wrong place. I think she's still jet-lagged. She was horrified and apologetic, and bundled us into a cab to take us to the right place nearby. Our driver was something else. She marched over and started negotiating with a man in a black ...
Kissing the Golden Peacock in St Petersburg
... in Vilnius, to which we will return for the car and our luggage. It's even hard here to get anything in the way of tourist dope in English. We'll simply have to be resourceful and boldly walk into an international hotel and rummage through what they have for guests and interrogate the concierge. ( Done at the Radisson Royal on the interim return to the hotel for wine, cheese and crackers before wandering out again. She was most helpful.)
If it ...