Our trip to the Baltic

Now for some more photos from our recent travels - Denmark, Sweden, Estonia and Germany...

DENMARK

 Canal waterfront - Copenhagen

 The Little Mermaid ... decidedly unimpressive to be honest

 One of the castles in downtown Copenhagen

 Downtown

SWEDEN

 Cruising along the fjords

 Stockholm - outside the palace

 The Nobel Prize museum - Stockholm is the home of this international award.

 Stockholm waterfront

ESTONIA

 View of the old city of Tallin - beautiful

 One of the old city gates into the old city of Tallin

 Tallin

 Quaint old streets

GERMANY

 The ancient/modern center of Rostock

 In the cathedral square in Rostock

 One of the original medieval towers

 At the coastal town of Warnemunde

 Warnemunde is a tourist resort on the Black Sea with a long and beautiful beach

DENMARK

 Real 1100 year old Viking ships in the town of Roskilde - the ancient capital of Denmark

Cathedral square in Roskilde

Now we are wrapping things up in the UK and getting ready to head to Florida for the next stage of this adventure!

Russia!!!

We've just got back from a fabulous trip around the Baltic - more photos to follow but here are some of a great trip to St. Petersburg. We loved it - so interesting.

 St. Issac's cathedral

Inside the fabulous Hermitage and Winter Palace - crammed full of works of art and gold and luxury and ...

The amazing Grand Staircase

 Inside one of the palace rooms with gold decoration

 One of the beautiful corridors - based on the Vatican

 Enjoying a Russian lunch - including shots of Russian vodka

 On a tour of the Peter and Paul fortress, Evan ended up leading the group for a few minutes when our guide disappeared

 Inside the cathedral at the fortress - here are buried many of the famous kings and queens of |Russia, including Catherine the Great. In a separate room are the remains of Nicholas II and his family, executed during the Russian Revolution. A somber moment

 The fantastic Church of the Spilled Blood, built on the sight of the assassination of Alexander II

 One of the canals around St Petersburg

Sitting on an island in the middle of the River Neva with the Peter and Paul fortress and cathedral in the background

Midnight in Russia - during the summer the sun doesn't really set and Russians celebrate during this season - they call in 'White Nights'.

We'll get some more photos posted soon from some other places we visited recently - but Russia was a definite favorite for both of us - Fantastic!!!