July 21st, 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark Raining buckets as we arrived into a beautiful port area, where condos are expensive and looking out to sea. The captain did a 180 as soon as he entered the sheltered area of the port then parallel parked without help, wow! The rain stopped! The group met as planned, 8:30 outside the ship and we walked to the little mermaid around the marina next door, what a tiny lovely sculpture overlooking the port. After many pictures we hopped on a hop on, hop off bus that brought us to downtown with commentary; we bought a [View Full Entry]

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July 19th, 2007 Kalmar, Sweden…. No stop Due to Gale force winds, port was cancelled We were to meet the Michaelsons, friends from Toronto, Lunch at a Scandinavian buffet and Kalmar Castle, unfortunately, no go I hope Ellen receives the 3 E-mails I sent her, sorry we won’t see you So Day off today A week to go and the sea is getting rough this afternoon as we get closer to the south of the Baltic sea [View Full Entry]

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July 18th, 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Good day The group met at 8:30 this morning. Bruce had done research so that we all boarded the hop on hop off bus and started the loop. 8 of us negotiated and decided to… the bus driver said: “ let me bring you to the Vasa Museum( to see the 333 year old ship lifted from the Baltic after a 20 minute sail)- we said ok and off to be the first to visit the museum today before 2 cruise ships in port. Then we did the whole loop and separated Terry went with [View Full Entry]

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St-Petersburg 2 Europe » Russia » St Petersburgh By Gruxy July 16th 2007 Claire McManusJuly 16th, 2007 St-Petersburg, Russia, day 2 Lovely day The group met Anna at 8:15 this morning. First Peterhof south of the city, Summer Palace, 250 acre park and “cottage” of Peter the Great Back towards town form a great lunch specially [View Full Entry]

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July 15th, 2007 St-Petersburg, Russia Lovely day The group met Anna, the guide and Boris the driver at 7:40 this morning. The 8 of us hopped on a purple bus (easy to find) for a tiring day of sightseeing. Nothing is open at this early hour so we drove around getting a bus view of most sights, Stop at St-Isaacs, for pictures of Palaces and monuments More bus around the town and a shopping stop with tasting of cranberry liquor(maybe 2) Walk in the fortress and the cathedral of Peter and Paul the apostles- burial place of the Tsars and [View Full Entry]

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July 14th, 2007 Helsinki, Finland Lovely day, sun hiding behind clouds, 18ºC Across the Finland Straights from Tallinn Estonia Day started at 8:30 Shuttle to Esplanade, walked to and around the harbour market, up to the ornate Orthodox church (1% population), then up some more stairs to the Lutheran church- non ornate I still have a cold, terry is on day 2 of his We decided to split in smaller groups, Ross went home, cab and bus, Vicky and Bruce took the 29€ city tour bus, 5 of us walked to the Lutheran chuch in the rocks, then Leon, Ella [View Full Entry]

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now pics of Berlin Europe » Germany » Berlin » Mitte By Gruxy July 12th 2007 Claire McManusSorry forgot these on previous entry [View Full Entry]

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14 1/2 hour day train, bus, boat great tour guide 3 meals, german beer and cheese cake Berlin was worth the expensive tour [View Full Entry]

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July 11th, 2007 Kiel Canal Germany Lovely day, raining buckets 61 mile German canal in northern canal near Denmark Meeting many small and large boat, both cargo and passenger T & I are watching the canal on TV and out the window I have a cold, Tomorrow, Berlin, a 13 hour trip on train and river boat from our port Send me news please [View Full Entry]

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July 9th, Amsterdam Joined our friends at Prins Hendrick Hotel on the Train station and Ship warf Lovely visit, Heineken on a canal, with frites and tour boat ride Also walk in red light district Early to bed, slept 12 hours Barely made lovely Dutch breakfast: meats, cheese, toast and jams Thunderstorm and cab to ship We are back in our coffee club mode, having drinks on the back of deck 8 at sunset and sail away Nice to be with our friends from the world cruise again Ttys ♥2 u all [View Full Entry]

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