The view from outside the Hermitage across the river.
I grabbed images out of the minibus window.
We stopped on the way to lunch to allow us take some pictures around one of the canals of St Petersburg.
12:15-1:15 pm Traditional Russian lunch
We went into the restaurant and I felt brave enough to order a beer using my credit card as dollars were not accepted and we had no roubles.
The ceiling in the toilets fascinated me enough to take this !
1:30-3:00 pm Inside guided tour of Yusupov palace
I was a cheapskate and didn’t pay the extra US Dollars to be allowed to take pictures inside the palace. We queued room by room until we went down into the furnished cellar. This had mannequins depicting the scene when Prince Felix Yusupov and his colleagues first poisoned Rasputin before shooting him outside.
Next we went to the theatre inside the palace – amazing.