The Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg. It is the second largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. It has been open to the public since 1852. It has been said that if you wanted to see everything inside the museum…
My introduction to St Petersburg started with a trip to Macdonalds. My tour arrived at the airport and we all got through passport and baggage claim quickly. Except for one lady, her medication was thoroughly checked out by the Russians. I took all my medication, inc steriods and was not stopped. So while we waited my stomach was hungry and…
Thistle London Heathrow Terminal 5 was picked as I needed a hotel close to the airport for my flight to Russia. This was picked as I got a discount with hotels.com I booked a standard double room, from their website "Our Standard Double rooms at Thistle Heathrow Terminal 5 have all you need to feel relaxed and comfortable before or…
This cruise was to Norway and to see the Fjords. My father and his partner again took this cruise. This is somewhere that is on my list and is looks beautiful. I was invited on this cruise, but it was a week after Belgium and I knew my body would not be able to deal with another trip yet. Again…
Dinant is a city in Belgium’s Walloon Region. We travelled then on our way back from Luxembourg. It is about an hour and twenty minute drive from Brussels. I was not even aware we were visiting this city until the day of our tour. And what I was not awarewas celebrating a bank holiday we we drove into the city…
Luxembourg was a day trip for us from Brussels. I had not researched much about this, as this trip was less than a week after the trip to Norway. The coach journey took just over four hours and we were dropped off just outside the 17th-century Notre-Dame Cathedral. We crossed over and saw the top of the the Plateau Bourbon former fortress.…
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