Russia

In 2018 I will be traveling a lot. My third journey this year leads me to Moskou, Novgorod and St. Petersburg in Russia, which cities I have visited together with my DH on August 17-24 2018. This short trip has been booked through OAD, however executed by the Russia Academy. Its founder, Drs Marie-Thérèse ter Haar (very well educated, multi-languist, writer) became our tour guide. Though she knows her facts and figures about Russia, she was highly annoying during the whole trip, because she did not know when to shut up and just kept on talking about Russia, history and the politics. It seemed to me she has been brainwashed during the years she lived in Russia. We visited the Red Square and Kremlin in Moskou, some of its gorgeous metro stations, a kolchoze in Novgorod and a.o. the Hermitage and Fabergé museum in St. Petersburg. All together, the cities are certainly worth a visit, but with another tour guide.