Month: June 2025

We travelled overnight, arriving in Moscow at 00.55 and spent the next 5 hours trying to sleep in the railway stations. We were actually asleep on a bench in the … Read more

On 12th June we travelled on the metro to Pushkin via Kuchino metro station and Pushkin by bus, which we didn’t pay for because we didn’t have the necessary card. … Read more

Another day at the Hermitage, touring the Russian culture, East Asian, Chinse, Iranian and Caucasus rooms. Jennifer and a regal snake Climbing the Jordan Staircase The “Memorial Room” which served … Read more

The 9th June was a washout because it rained all day. The next day we went to see St Issacs Cathedral, which was closed during the Soviet era and turned … Read more

When we left the hotel it was pouring with rain so, having got the metro to Gostinnyi Dvor station, we dived into the forbidding-looking Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan … Read more

I wouldn’t go quite so far as to describe myself as an art expert, although I have heard of Picasso. Yet the visit to the 3rd floor of the General … Read more

We got the green line of the metro from Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo to Gostinii Dvor metro station and walked down Nevskii Prospekt to the General Staff Building at the northern … Read more

We moved into our new room at midday. It is very acceptable for 6,000 Rub/day which is cheap by St Petersburg standards given its position on (almost) Nevskii Prospekt. We … Read more

In the morning we had a great stroke of luck in meeting the hotel manager, Kseniya, who let us stay in the same room tonight (I hope she didn’t throw … Read more