Back in the USSR
August 8th 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia 08-08-08:
We arrived very early yesterday morning, by overnight bus from Riga, Latvia. The first Thursday of every month is free admission to the Hermitage, one of the top museums in the world, so even though we were tired, we couldn't pass up the opportunity. To say the Hermitage is a museum is a bit of an understatement. It was the Czars' palace, and is a huge and beautif
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