On my way to bed - I promise ( Read more... )

Long day, long week :-/. Today we went to Tsarskoye Syelo (Tsar's Village) to visit the Catherine Palace and its gardens. The Palace was the St. Petersburg summer residence of the tsars and the imperial family and is very reminiscent of the Winter Palace (whose architect designed it for the imperial family). The only potentially very interesting ( Read more... )

...What more is there to say :-)? So far we've spent a day in St. Petersburg and although it hasn't been without its limitations, it has been quite wonderful. We took a bus tour of the city's highlights (the Cathedrals of St. Isaac and the Kazan Icon, the Winter Palace and the Admiralty, the Petropavlovsk Fortress and Cathedral, the Nevski Prospect ( Read more... )