Baltic Cruise - 2011 July

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Baltic Cruise - 2011 July

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Leaving Helsinki

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Sunset in the Gulf of Finland

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Saint Petersburg

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Hydrofoil to Peterhof

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Peterhof

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Called the Sea Canal, this looks like a lock with recesses for the gates

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I think these were actors playing Grigori Rasputin and Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova but they were just sitting in a corner rather than putting themselves about to be photographed

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The Adam fountain - I wonder where Eve learned hairdressing!

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Mon Plesir Pavilion

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They have dismantled socialism but the squirrels are still red

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Returning to Saint Petersburg

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Saint Petersburg

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Sudden rainstorm

MS Braemar

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Russian entertainers

Saint Petersburg from the ship

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Saint Petersburg - coach trip to Zelenogorsk

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Saint Petersburg - Roger goes off on his own without a visa

In Finland we were free to leave the ship as we wished. In København ditto and we were advised to leave our passports on the ship for fear of pickpockets. ...

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The sign says STOP but in Cyrillic letters

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In winter the snow ploughs are out promptly. In summer the water carts ditto.

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See Segway in centre of previous image. The only other time I have seen a Segway recently, albeit in a photo, was this also in Eastern Europe. Subsequently I saw them outside the White House.