Spend a long weekend in St Petersburg staying in a beautifully decorated flat with resident housekeeper, cook, private car and driver. (All year)

Travel by train from Moscow to Beijing, stopping off for a day or so in Ekaterinenburg, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude and Ulaan Baatar en-route.(July and August are too hot)

Fly across to Lake Baikal and spend time exploring the surrounding area of Shamanists, Buddhists and Old Believers. (June or September)

Explore the Crimea and the coast of the Black Sea. (May to October)