Day 2 of our tour dawned sunny and clear, and we were ready to go by 8:30.  After the obligatory souvenir shop stop (which wasn’t hard sell fortunately) we were off to The Hermitage.  Formerly the Winter Palace, this is now the third largest museum in the world, after the British Museum and the Louvre […]

Another smooth overnight sail had us docked at the new Seaport in St Petersburg. It was a rush this morning as we had to get through passport control and meet our tour by 8am.  We’d been told to allow up to 40 minutes for the bureaucratic process; it took five.  We duly boarded our 16 […]