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The trip to London was blissfully uneventful. I can now add a ride through the channel tunnel to my list of strange and wonderful things I have experienced. Unfortunately, the trip through the tunnel isn’t very exciting. Just eighteen minutes of dark. Tonight we are staying near Paddington Station. The […]

After almost six weeks on the road, our interest in experiencing foreign places is running out. We slept in this morning, took our time getting our act together, and our desire to see as much as possible never surfaced. Out of all the wonderful historic and memorable sights, we focused […]

When we last reported on Pat and Paul’s grand adventure, it was the middle of the night in Amsterdam and I was writing furiously while I waited for the adrenalin rush from our exciting departure from Copenhagen to subside. Today started with a big breakfast before we began wandering for […]

Cute little stickers for the camera. Tickets to take the camera into a museum. Canal boat St. Petersburg Catherine’s Palace near St. Petersburg Inside Catherine’s Palace Grand Staircase, Catherine’s Palace – High season and all the tours are in attendance.

It is a long walk from central Copenhagen to the Little Mermaid. And she is just as small and insignificant as we were told. Still, she was surrounded by admirers from all around the world. We assume the last because all the conversations we couldn’t understand seemed to be using […]

We have been on the move since our last post. Tallinn, Estonia was our next stop after St. Petersburg. Our perfect, sunny tourist weather stayed with us for this stop. Old town Tallinn was walking distance from the ship. With only a few hours to explore, the tiny old town […]

Another full day devoted to being tourists. Our mission today was a visit to Pavlosk and Tsarskoe Selo. Both are located about 25 miles from St. Petersburg. After two days in the heart of the big city, a trip to the ‘burbs would be a welcome change. Unfortunately the crowds […]

Where to begin? Today we visited the Hermitage, one of the world’s great museums. The collection is so vast that it would take 7 years to view everything if you only spend one minute at each piece and view nonstop 24 hours a day. The Winter Palace is the entrance […]

We woke up to a cruise through the industrial, container shipping part of the St. Petersburg harbor. Our ship tied up close to the central city at the English Embankment. From our cabin we can enjoy all the traffic noise of downtown St, Petersburg. There is a lot of traffic […]

We were blessed with a sunny day for our visit to Helsinki. At a latitude of 60 degrees north, warm days are at a premium. Helsinki is locateded on the Gulf of Finland and is spread over several peninsulas and islands (a mere 315), so the central city is rather […]