Another beautiful palace! I had to take a video to capture the palace from the side
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And took a panorama photo from my iPhone
Amber room!!! WOW!!! Photos not allowed but was able to take this
Wall of paintings!!!! I want to do this too 🙂
James was more amazed at this TV inside the palace haha!!
Behind the palace is a shop selling amber!
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Our last stop of the day was the Hermitage. What an amazing collection of Art!!!! The museum was swarming with people and all the artworks were just exposed. I was worried how these priceless pieces of art are just there and there are so many of them all in one place and there are a swarm of people just hovering around!
Marina as usual only took us to the most important pieces since we had limited time, But just that alone took us around 2 hours just looking at the artwork and identifying them. As it says here in this write up it will take 11 years for you to see the 3 million exhibit pieces if you were to take one minute per piece! WOW thats a long time! 🙂
What a blessing to have the opportunity to see the works of art you normally just see on cards, posters and in books. Heart2Heart loves ART!
Pissaro
Rodin
Monet
Renoir
Van Gogh
Gauguin
Picasso
Matisse
Floor matching with the ceiling carving
Leonardo Da Vinci
Rembrandt
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My sister made sure we watched the ballet so she got some tickets to watch Romeo and Juliet. We were hoping to watch Swan Lake but it was not showing. Beautiful Marinsky Theater. If you notice the buildings in Russia are very colorful. Mariana told us that they did this so the city would not look too drab and gray – imagine if all the buildings were gray? and imagine in winter when the weather is dark and gloomy? the city would be all gray! 🙂
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While we were lining up across the street at Halal Guys, we saw this line which was much much longer circling the whole block! So while James was lining up I decided to go and ask what the line was about
Apparently it was for the Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA )
It’s call the Uniqlo Free Friday Nights – You can enter the MOMA for free from 4pm to 8 pm on Fridays
Free entrance means long lines and very busy museum 🙂 We only went inside the lobby to check it out and decided not to enter anymore because there were a lot of people
As we were walking back home, we passed the back of the Museum and just took a peek 🙂
Found a photo of James from 1998 with the same car but not on the wall
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One of Heart2Heart’s favorite booths at MaArte!
What a surprise to see Apol Lejano Massebieau behind La Pomme!
It has been almost 19 years since I last saw Apol. She wrote about my wedding for Bride Philippines with Jenny Syquia. At that time she had short hair and now she is in full bloom looking so feminine with her long hair!! So beautiful Apol! 🙂 And I love the stuff you make!
Click below to shop online and see the many other beautiful things from La Pomme
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