Culture overload.

Since Liz was keen to see the Faberge egg at the Hermitage it seemed that to rectify that omission a visit to the Faberge museum might help. Once rested & a station bound cheap taxi booked for the morning, a pleasant walk through the park got us to a quieter end of town. A little ticket confusion at the entrance & then straight into the eggs. As a museum they kind of shot their bolt though because everything seemed a little tame by comparison - a decorated cigarette box?? Not sure I'll be able to cope with another gallery but the eggs were quite nice - was that what Faberge was aiming for as a response from the Tsars. Ambled back via a recommended Georgian restaurant and the bizarrely named Fields of Mars (a memorial to fallen soldiers)Read more