Day 2 in St Petersburg. Oh what a hot day again - Russian immigration was a breeze today - just straight through and off we went in a bus with air conditioned and a tourist guide with a sense of humour! Off to The Hermitage - pronounced Hermitaaaaaaaaaaarrge - which is Catherine the Great's Winter Palace which is on the main river in St Petersburg and during the siege of Leningrad it was covered by netting and painted to look like domestic housing which was missed by the german bombers - now a museum and a magnificent one at that. An unbelievable variety of major artists - Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Picasso , Rembrandt and other notables.... incredible being so close to them all and photos we took of them.... naughty us didn't pay
... read more