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I have my OWN mattress.
It seems that our Russian tour guide is warming up to us. Either that or we are getting used to her. I believe that the real turning point was Greg telling Irena, in Russian, that he brought his own mattress. Why this phrase is in a phrase book under "Practical, being polite," no one is certain.
Today we traveled outside of St. Petersburg to the palace suburbs. First we went to Peterhof, the summer palace of Peter the Great. ...
River Cruise and the Hermitage
... consistent although the sun was shining. We met Natalia at the Museum. We were so thankful to have her there with us. The museum is huge with thousands of exhibits. You could easily spend a week there. The showed us the highlights in 2.5 hours. We were beat. We saw the works of the master painters - Rembrandt, Ruebens, DeVinci and many many more -the Dutch, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians, the impressionists including Dega, Monet and ...
St. Petersburg - seeing how the other half lived
We were back to palace hopping today and a visit to Pushkin, named after Alexander Pushkin, one of Russia's most famous writers and poets. It is the site of Catherine's Palace and the smaller Alexander Palace. It was built for and by Catherine the Great who ruled Russia in the latter part of the 18th century and grew the empire dramatically during her reign.
About an hour out of the city, we could see some of the suburban landscape as well as ...
The actual excursion ( I decided to make more)
... I didn't want to have to look up. The other option was the Nutcracker..but I knew that story already. So when we got there we walked up grand stairs to the theater and then took some more stairs to the upper balcony. It turns out our seats were terrible. They were on the side of the balcony so we had to turn our entire body to see the stage and then half of it was covered due to the railing. we decided we would move at Act II since there were a lot of seats open, ...
St Petersburg festivities...
... Breakfasts have been ok, but I don't generally have brussel sprouts at all, much less for breakfast. I have become a fan of their porridge - as it is essentially thinner and sweeter oatmeal. Eggs are somewhat questionable as the Russians seem to love soft boiled eggs and not as much on the hard boiled ones. Lunches have been out and about and somewhat authentic - short of the Subway stop mentioned above. There was a great restaurant with borsht on our first day. ...
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