{"id":12920,"date":"2019-07-31T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2019-10-24T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:16:27","slug":"easy-pace-russia-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Pace Russia: Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"motor<\/p>\n

I had a ticket, a ticket to ride aboard a deluxe, business class-legroom motor coach, a hydrofoil and a bullet train as a guest photojournalist of Insight Vacations<\/a> to experience its Easy Pace Russia<\/i> journey.<\/p>\n

\"St<\/p>\n

This eight-day, premium-escorted itinerary took me to St. Petersburg<\/a>, residence of the imperial tsars of old, and Moscow<\/a>, the capital of Russia, where Red Square dazzles the eye.<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

In between this \u201ctale of two cities,\u201d I attended a ballet; was entertained by a folkloric troupe of musicians, singers and dancers; cruised up and down canals; visited iconic palaces, onion-domed churches and museums; and, spent several nights in one of the \u201cSeven Sisters,\u201d the post-World War II skyscrapers commissioned by Joseph Stalin to impress the West, that\u2019s now a five-star hotel overlooking the Moscow River.<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

And, I did my fair share of savoring mouthwatering regional cuisine along the way from the kitchens of Georgia, Russia and the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\"Palace<\/p>\n

Join me as I re-trace my steps on Insight Vacations\u2019 Easy Pace Russia<\/i> journey and try and solve, in the words of Winston Churchill, this \u201criddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do svidaniya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Palladian Traveler lurks in the shadows while attempting to solve a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma as he files a series of new dispatches from St. Petersburg and Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2710,260,2712,174,2711],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-travel","tag-easy-pace-russia","tag-insight-vacations","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-st-petersburg"],"yoast_head":"\nEasy Pace Russia with the Palladian Traveler: Prologue - Traveling Boy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Palladian Traveler attempts to solve a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma as he embarks on an Easy Pace Russia journey.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-prologue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Easy Pace Russia with the Palladian Traveler: Prologue - 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