A beautiful day to visit Peterhof Palace (aka: The Summer Palace). Everyone dreams of having a holiday home by the sea right? Turns out Peter the Great did, so in 1725 he built Peterhof Palace right on the shores of the Bay of Finland. More commonly known as […]
Today we fell in love…. It’s official: we love St Petersburg! We had our first full day in this glorious city today and it was awesome. Some reasons why we love St Pete’s: The architecture. There are so many beautifully restored 18th and 19th century buildings, and within […]
Pskov kremlin, Pechory monastery and being whipped with birch leaves at a real Russian banya. What a day! We woke bright and early this morning to sunrise over the forests of north-western Russia and watched from our train window as wilderness turned into villages and rural farmland. The […]
Grandeur of by-gone era, buried 74m underground. Greetings blog fans. Today’s Moscovian adventure took us under the city, once again into the city’s Metro system, to check out the frescos, stained glass and fading grandeur of the Moscow Metro. This metropolitan subway system opened in 1935 with a […]
Red Square, St Basil’s Cathedral, The Kremlin – we did it all! There are few sights so characteristically Moscovian than the ones we saw today. It was awesome! Our day started nice and early with a tour group “meet and greet”. Our guide for the week, Tatyana, is […]
Wandering Soles 