Baltic Cruise - 2011 July

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Baltic Cruise - 2011 July

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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.

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Saint Petersburg - boat trip

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"Everyday Saint Petersburg" coach trip

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Amrots Armenian restaurant, 176 Nevsky prospect

Saint Petersburg Metro, Ploshad Vosstaniya / Mayakovskaya

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The few words you do see in English seem to be entirely prohibitions

Saint Petersburg Metro, Zvenigorodskaya / Pushkinskaya

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Statue of Pushkin

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Saint Petersburg Metro, Vladimirskaya / Dostoevskaya

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Vladimirskiy prospect, Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimimir

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Saint Petersburg

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Svetlana

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MS Braemar leaving Saint Petersburg

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This is Moskva, an icebreaker owned by Rosmorport a Russian Federal State Unitary Enterprise charged with the development of the Russian sea transport infrastructure. This being high summer she is back in the port where she was built - possibly in the same boatyard having a refit.