Collecting My Thoughts

2777 Trip Tale: St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg After a wonderful visit to the Hermitage Museum and its art shop on Tuesday m...

Trip Tale: The Hermitage It seems that everyone who visits St. Petersburg goes to the Hermitage. And it is fabulous. The crowds are incr...

Trip Tale: St. Petersburg, The Peter and Paul Fortress When Peter the Great of Russia decided he needed a city on the Gulf of Finland he ...

Trip Tale: Kalinka, Kalinka A Russian chorus and folk dance troupe performed in our hotel's theater in St. Petersburg. Our tour guid...

Trip Tale: Our tour group, The G-6 It's not clear what happened to the rest of them, but by the time we got on the Sibelius train fro...

2726 Trip Tale: Russia, first views We met our trip companions, Gloria and Doug, in Helsinki at the beautiful train station designed by E...