Our last day in St. Petersburg we took a long bus ride to the suburbs to see the Catherine Palace south of the city. This palace was built by Catherine I in the early 1700s and was used as a summer residence for the various Czars after that. It is now a museum full of art, as well as the famous amber room (decorated with 6 tons of very expensive fossilized tree sap). There are several big buildings and lots of gardens that we have heard are nice in the summer time.
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| The rules posted at the Palace - basically don't do anything |
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| Outside of the Catherine Palace |
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| Inside the Palace in the Ball Room |
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| Another building on the estate |
We got back to the hostel just in time for "Blini" making lessons (Russian for crepes). They were pretty good, and we ate a bunch, but still went out for supper immediately afterwards to a restaurant that the hostel recommended for its borscht soup. It was very nice, they gave us a table with nice couches around it, and there was a whole plate of pickled items that Patrick ordered.
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| Making the blinis at the hostel |
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| At the borscht restaurant (photo taken by Jasper) |
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