Ken wrestles with suitcase

St Petersburg 1

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August 16th 2016
Here we are in rainy St Petersburg, all went smoothly from the airport till we stepped out of the metro at Nevsky Prospect. Then which way to go? Of course we set off on the increasing rain in the wrong direction.... It took sometime and map perusal on street corners to right ourselves. But we did .....and finally found ourselves in the historic Art Hotel Rachmaninov where the said composer lived ... 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