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Home Tag Archives: Insight Vacations

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Easy Pace Russia: The Battle that Inspired an Overture (Dispatch #17)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Battle of Borodino painting, Battle of Borodino Panorama Musem in Moscow

Like a war correspondent, The Palladian Traveler files his last dispatch in this series from a platform overlooking a re-creation of the Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleanic Wars that signaled the beginning of the end for Emperor Napolean I.

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Easy Pace Russia: Cosmonauts, Churches and a VIP Cemetery (Dispatch #16)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Trinity Lavra of Saint Sergius, Sergiyev Posad

The Palladian Traveler heads far outside the city limits of Moscow to reach the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church and pays his respects at a cemetery where Russian history sleeps as he files his penultimate dispatch in the Easy Pace Russia series.

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Easy Pace Russia: Walking and chewing GUM in Red Square (Dispatch #13)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

The Palladian Travel holds his breath as he passes by the old KGB Headquarters on his way to a daytime stroll around iconic Red Square and a bit of window shopping at the ornate GUM indoor mall.

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Easy Pace Russia: Moscow’s Underground Art Museums (Dispatch #12)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
mural at the museumesque Moscow Metro subway system

The Palladian Traveler heads 50m below the surface to discover well-kept Soviet art as he joins countless Muscovites as they commute via the museumesque Moscow subway system.

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Easy Pace Russia: The Beginning of the End at Yusupov Palace (Dispatch #10)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
basement of Yusupov Palace

The Palladian Traveler dusts for prints as he goes in search for the facts surrounding a whodunnit murder committed down in the bowels of an aristocratic residence along the banks of the Moica River in St. Petersburg.

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Easy Pace Russia: Craning My Neck At Swan Lake (Dispatch #9)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Swan Lake ballerina

Like savoring caviar and vodka, one cannot come to Mother Russia without attending a ballet, and this is why the Palladian Traveler files his ninth dispatch from inside the ornate Hermitage Theatre as the lights dim and the curtain goes up on Swan Lake.

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Easy Pace Russia: Inside The Hermitage Museum (Dispatch #6)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
chandelier at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The Palladian Traveler is joined by the likes of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Velasquez as he pays a visit to the world famous Hermitage Museum.

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Easy Pace Russia: A Folksy Night in St. Petersburg (Dispatch #5)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Russian folkloric troupe

The Palladian Traveler grabs a knife, fork, spoon and beer bottle, along with a front row seat, as he smacks his lips and claps his hands through a two-part folksy night in St. Petersburg.

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Easy Pace Russia: Spilt Blood, Red Caviar and Peterhof (Dispatch #4)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Peterhof

After lunching on caviar, The Palladian Traveler hops aboard a hydrofoil and files his fourth dispatch from Peterhof, the sprawling and ornate Russian version of Versailles, just a few nautical miles outside St. Petersburg.

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Easy Pace Russia: Peter and Paul Fortress (Dispatch #3)

By Tom Weber
in :  World Travel
Peter and Paul Fortress on Hare Island, St. Petersburg

The Palladian Traveler arrives at the very spot where Peter the Great grabbed a shovel, broke ground and gave birth to St. Petersburg as he files his third dispatch from his Easy Pace Russia journey.

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