Thread: Travel Clocks

Originally Posted by TEEJAY

If you are talking about the rom with the painted ceilings floor there are many rooms in the palaces that have very intricate inlay floors - I did photgraph some.

One part of one palace has a museum that has enough exhibitions that if you spend 1 minute infront of each display for 8 hours per day you will spend 15 years to see the whole place. They have the original Venus statue there, they have paintings by Leonardo de Vinci, Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrant etc and not just one or two I saw a over ten of each for three of these painters. These were purchased by the Tzars in the early 1700's as they were avid collectors.

The places are awesome - the wealth in them is difficult to describe but for example one room had 12 pillars 10m high and they were about 500mm diametre. The pillars looked like green shiny marble but they were made from stone such as granite then rendered with over 4 tonnes of crushed precious stones such as emerald to give them the effect - many many more examples were given of the things there. One wall moziac is made of precious stones so fine you would swear it was a spray painted mural of incredible detail. The mosiac is 3m high and over 6m long and it took over one year for one person to do one square metre of the mosiac. Many vibrant colours all from precious stones.

Russia is a goldmine of heritage, natural wealth and poverty.

They say there that there is Moscow and there is Russia. Moscow has a lot of wealthy people (it is the most expensive place in the wold to live) and the country has very hard times of poverty and misery.

The average life for a Russian is 57 years - about 90% of the population smoke and many are drunks - you can drink in public and they do from morning till night.

Russia has (in my opinion) a wealth of beautiful ladies - an average guy with is act together there will be popular and sought by girls as there are plenty more girls than guys. A good looking guy is very difficult for a girl and when caught he is more likely to be unfaithful or looking for a younger girl in years to come because he is hunted too by many single attractive women. Summer in a place where girls are openly and actively liberal in their pursuit of guys is an interesting place to be - wow.

So many impressions of the trip - but happy to be home.

As soon as I got home I went bush and retrieved the remainder of my redgum burl - it is happily at home now awaiting inspiration.

Cheers

Sounds like a fantastic journey. Glad that you enjoyed it - and welcome back!

TJ, Brugge translates to English is Bugger