At least 4 cruise ships here today plus at least 100,000 world cup fans! There is a match tonight!
The palace and museum will be packed!
Above: Michael and I take our obligatory selfie in front of the Tzar’s throne.
Then we moved into the Hermitage Museum set up by Catherine the Great as her own private collection.
We had to go through passport control and then we boarded our bus heading to the city.
First impressions were of a concrete jungle like any other, on the way to the city, lots of concrete apartment buildings. As we got closer to town we got a glimpse of the older buildings.
We headed towards the Winter Palace. I love palaces! I really do want my own but somehow I think I will have to be happy seeing these ones!
Here are some of the photos of the beautiful palace rooms.
Above: Michael and I take our obligatory selfie in front of the Tzar’s throne.
Then we moved into the Hermitage Museum set up by Catherine the Great as her own private collection.
You know these places are so luxurious and beautiful but I can imagine why the people revolted against the Tzars, they were building beautiful palaces while the people were starving. All very nice to admire now but these places must be bittersweet for the Russian people.
Back to Catherine the Great, she accumulated many works of art in her collection. We saw paintings by Da Vinci, Goya, Rafaello and Rembrandt just to name a few.
We were in this place for 3 hours and I bet we didn’t see it all!!
Then we had 3 hours on our own in St. Petersburg, we had some lunch and shopped for souvenirs and then waited for our bus to go back to the ship.
We are staying in port overnight so tomorrow we have another tour of the canals in St Petersburg
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