Vaulted ceilings inside the Hermitage

St Petersburg - Russia

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May 5th 2011
Having had an awesome weekend of beer, barbeques amd hot-tubbing in the Forest of Dean, the time came to start our five month adventure starting with a night in the Stansted Travel Lodge. Successfully, we managed to get up in time for an early morning flight (that's a 66% hit rate for us on such flights now) to St Petersburg via Dusseldorf. With no queues, easy check-in, a half-empty flight ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more