Day: 17 June 2014
Vilnius Old Town
We arrived in Vilnius last night to find that we were booked into a different hotel than we thought. There are two Radisson Blu hotels here and we thought that we were staying in the one right in the old town. It’s not a big issue – ours is just across the river in the […]
Read More
Not Quite the Bolshoi Ballet
On our second last evening in St Petersburg, we had a night at the ballet. It was a private show for those in our Scenic Tour group. It lasted for just under an hour and included about ten short pieces ranging from excerpts from Swan Lake to Don Quixote. One number was focused on ‘The […]
Read More
Why Russians Don’t Smile
I have now found it interesting on both of my trips to Russia to see that people rarely smile. On one occasion on this recent trip, I came across a mother and a toddler and even though I made a point of playing up to the little boy, the mother just looked at me blankly. […]
Read More