July 7 St. Petersburg - Out on the Town

Up early this morning and out for a 3 mile run to work out the kinks after so much travel. Breakfast than off for a long walk to the Hermitage. Along the way we saw many beautiful old pastel colored buildings, some Roman influenced architecture and many canals with gilted bridges. One of our favorites was the Singer Building which is over 200 years old and very ornate. All we can say about the Hermitage is wow and wow. The scale of this museum is beyond belief and only surpassed by the quantity and quality of fine art contained inside. Of course all the famous names were represented like Renoir, Monet, Degas, Rembrandt, Manet, Rubens, you get the picture. Besides paintings were great mosaics and a fantastic mechanical clock with a Peacock that moves. After the Hermitage we walked to a hotel nearby and had lunch on the rooftop with a great view of the city. Very fancy and worth it. Then off along a canal to the Summer Gardens. A few more blocks back to the main road Nevsky Prospekt and we headed for our first subway ride. The usual process of buying tokens and making darn sure we picked a train heading in the right direction and we were back to the hotel quickly. The evening continues....