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Baltic Cruise - 2011 July
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Dover
The ship's photographer had the cheek to ask £6 extra for this as a jpeg
Looking back to the white cliffs
Lesley claimed this was an oil rig
MS Braemar
This model, on display in the ship's reception area shows the state before it was lengthened in 2008.
How the split happened. Note the addition of some (very expensive) "deluxe balcony cabins" forward on Deck 8
Brunsbüttel
We had to wait quite a long time for clearance to enter the Kiel Canal
Kiel Canal, Brunsbüttel Locks
Forget what you have learnt about red=port, green=starboard. The lights in the Kiel Canal have their road meanings of stop and go! In German it is the
Nord-Ostsee-Kanal.
Lock gate. The water level in the Elbe estuary may be higher or lower than the canal depending on the state of the tide. On this occasion, we dropped just over a metre to enter the canal.
Site of the old gate before the lock was enlarged. Note the special box for gongoozlers.
Ships travelling in the opposite direction entering the lock beside the one we are using
Our boat is 196 metres long but there is still room to get two more into the lock
The gate at the canal end just finishing opening
A special viewing platform. Big passenger vessels are probably quite rare to judge by the amount of attention we received. I wonder what the German word for "gongoozle" is.
Kiel Canal
The first of several ferries that cross the canal
From the Observatory lounge forward on Deck 8
In the wide parts of the canal we were allowed to do 8.7 knots and this is the wake we were leaving.
Sign showing a ship. But you are on a ship canal - you expect ships! What it means is: ferry crossing ahead.
Pilots are changed half way at Nubbel
Rendsburg
This is part of a ship being towed through the canal but it is not the bit that was spliced into Braemar -
larger version.
Newport, Gwent
Only a couple of weeks earlier we had visited the transporter bridge in Newport. This signpost points to (probably all) the transporter bridges left in the world. Little did I think when I took this photo that I would be seeing one of the bridges it points to.
Warnemünde
A bit of the Berlin Wall. This is Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, part of the former DDR.
The Hansa is not forgotten. The car on the left has a registration mark of HRO = Hansestadt Rostock - the local area. And the one on the right is HH = Hansestadt Hamburg.
Saint Christopher's Church
Am Strom
One of my most successful image stitchings and it was not even planned as one! Lesley took the two images thirty seconds apart so the boat on the move appears twice!
Am Strom beside the old harbour
West Mole
Werner Stötzer (1931–2010)
Grosse Stehende (Large standing figure)
1986 | 1998 Eigentum der Hansestadt Rostock (property of the Hanseatic city of Rostock)
Als Gedenkskulptur für auf See Gebliebene in Auftrag gegeben, schuf der Bildhauer die trauernde weibliche Marmorplastik.
(The sculptor created this marble figure of a grieving female as a memorial for those lost at sea.)
The number 40 picked out in images of eyes across the face of the
Hotel Neptun to celebrate the hotel's 40th anniversary - opened 1971 June 7.
Happy socialist workers seen in 1972 relaxing on the beach with the Neptun in the background.
These
strandkörben (literally "beach baskets") are a common sight along the north German coast. The sun may be hot but there may still be a vicious wind.
Image ripped off from here.
Approaching Turku
Turku
J C Decaux get everywhere
Old Bank pub Aurakatu near Linnankatu
Looking up Aurakatu towards the art museum
from Uransilta (bridge) looking downstream
from Uransilta looking upstream
Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum
Tuomiokirkko from the Observatory
Corner of Hämeenkatu and Uudenmaankatu
Tuomiokirkkosilta (bridge) over the Aurajoki (river)
Continuing the river walk
Looking across the river and up Kaupiaskatu
Looking up river towards Auransilta
Teatterisilta - Theatre footbridge
Myllysilta. The original bridge sagged alarmingly on 2010 March 6. The decision was taken to demolish and rebuild.
These two figures only 30cm high sit on the gunwale of a restaurant boat moored beside Läntinen Rantakatu near Föri
The free passenger ferry, imaginatively called Föri. I could not see the means of propulsion but I assume it uses submerged chains
Ventilators for the district heating scheme. Presumably to let off steam if pressure builds up for some reason
Segyn
The last remaining wooden three-masted barque in the world
Leaving Turku
Gulf of Finland
Porvoo
Helsinki
Variotram
The
Variotram article in Wikipedia describes the problems they had in Helsinki with these trams. A few months after I saw this tram, the same make turned up
in Croydon.
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