Saint Petersburg situated on the Baltic Sea bordering Finland. Closest city is Helsinki.Formerly Leningrad beseiged in WW2 by the Nazis over 90 days. They say it was the defeat of Hitler.
The City is built on marsh lands therefore canals with lots of waterfront opportunities for developers. Most have been here before me. With castle names like Stroganoff and Yusupov, Williams just does not seem right.
The Hermitage is the Palace of the Tzars being built on by consecutive rulers over 500 years. It now houses the greatest art gallery in the world. We are told four floors, 1.6 kilometres. It is huge marble edifices, magnificent stairways, chandeliers.
There is the largest collection of Rembrandts and Dutch masters in the world along with the modern marsters, Renoir, Picasso, Cezanne, Andy Warhol and sculture by Rodin. It would take a week to see the b
est of it all. Probably still miss out on the antiquities of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians.Again our stay was short. There were numerous cathedrals, churches, monuments. They are everywhere, each one bigger and better than the rest.
The whole Saint Petersburg thing is awesome. We recommend it in the summer. Come for the Light Fest. 24 hours of daylight with festival running late June early July.
BUT "Houston we have a problem".
The trains to Latvia and Lithuania do not run anymore. We can go Via Helsinki, or catch a bus. To get to Tallin, Estonia, was our goal. NO TRAINS!!
The great train journey was in a siding:
So not to worry we hopped a LOT flight to Warsaw.
Image 1 Nikita the Provodnitsa
Image 2 Saint Petersburg station
Image 3 The Hermitage
Image 4 Canal cruise
Image 5 Lot flight to Warsaw Poland
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