We flew in Iguazu and arrived in the Argentina side. Immediately we were drove across the border to visit the Brazilian side of these magnificent cataracts. With my mobility issues, my husband left me and took the trail and I was driven with another lady to the elevator. I have wanted to see this waterfalls for years and they did…
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CAMBODIA, SIEM REAP SIGHTS
Siem Reap was our last stop on our tour, we stayed three nights at the Angkor Palace Resort and Spa. I was excited for this day that my body woke me up at 4.30 am, our wake up call was going to be be 5.30 am. And I could not get back to sleep. Our flight again was very short.…
RUSSIA, MOSCOW, KREMLIN AND LAST MORNING
Morning visit to the Kremlin, including Cathedral Square and the Armoury Museum with its collection of imperial crowns and carriages was the next on the cards. We were only allowed to take photos of the buildings outside but not allowed to take any photos of the clothing, carriages, weapons and everything else that was on show. The gardens were beautiful…
Moscow has been somewhere I have been wanting to visit for years, at least over twenty, and it did not disappoint at all. We arrived late on a Friday night and were immediately caught in traffic. It took nearly two hours to move from the train station in the north of the city to get to our hotel in the…
Peterhof was another bucket list for me but I had no idea until I arrived and spoke to our guide if it was going to be a possibility. She actually told a group of us who wanted to go that it was not going to be a possibility. Which was the wrong thing to say. After our tour of the…
RUSSIA, ST PETERSBURG THE HERMITAGE
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…