![Gilt and grandeur ... in the huge collection of paintings are these portraits of Russian generals in the 1812 campaign against Napoleon.](/web/20150611004545im_/http://www.traveller.com.au/content/dam/images/1/q/k/o/a/image.related.TravellerThumbnail.300x200.1qj4e.png/1416349862300.jpg)
Came so far for beauty
So much art. So much backache. Lissa Christopher tours the behemoth State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
So much art. So much backache. Lissa Christopher tours the behemoth State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
A Bordeaux bolthole for $120 a night? A riverside retreat in Lisbon for the same? Here's our guide to some of Europe's best-value hotels and guesthouses this season.
Louise Schwartzkoff paddles with otters and cruises beneath volcanoes on a dramatic expedition in the Kuril Islands.
Ah, the romance of long-distance train travel ... Ute Junker shares her experiences of carriages and cabbages.
I am travelling to Kent in England next month to visit my daughter and family.
Russia is a place it's impossible to get a grip on.
At the unfashionable end of the Trans-Siberian railway line, Louise Southerden loses all sense of direction.
Wherever you're travelling, it pays to find out much as possible about a country before visiting.
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