St Petersburg is Russia’s window on the West and is supposedly one of the worlds most beautiful metropolis’s. For 2 centuries St Petersburg was the capital of Russia. It is now the second largest city in Russia and has an undeniably eventful history. From witnessing the February and October Revolutions of 1917 to its fierce defence and siege during WW II, she has become one of Russia’s intellectual and cultural hubs. It is called the Venice of the North bec...

Sorry for the delay in the posts but I have not had reliable wifi since my last post and we’ve been very busy. We arrived in Tallinn, Estonia. It’s wedged between Latvia & Russia and borders the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. Estonia has survived Teutonic Knights, Polish princes and Russian Tsars. Tallinn is the capital of Estonia. The Old Town is a medieval gem and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The best way to describe it is that it’s a sm...

This is the second sea day in 3 days. We just may kill each other before today is done. We find them boring even though there is a to. Of things to do if you want. Unfortunately not many of the. Are of interest to us. They have lectures, movies, demonstrations (one of today’s is fruit & vegetable carving), arts & crafts, shopping events, line dancing, bingo and so on. Not really our cup of tea. So we slept in today. After breakfast we attended 2 lect...

We arrived in Warnemunde (the gateway to Berlin) early. We decided not to do the 6+ hour round trip ride to Berlin. There’s just too much to see and we couldn’t justify that amount of time on a train. We decided instead to take the 20 minute train ride to Rostock, a medieval shipping and ship building town. It’s on the Warnow river but most sights are in the Old Town (Alstadt) so we walked there. Neuper Markt (New Market Square) houses the Town Hall and s...

We slept in today. We find sea days to be quite boring at the best of times. But on this trip the weather is cool so even hanging out at the pool area is not an option. It started out very foggy and cool and it didn’t change much throughout the day. After breakfast we wandered around the atrium area where there were sales in all the shops and free samples of some foods and vodka. Vic went to the vodka sampling area several times! We tried to attend a lecture ...