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July 23rd, 2007 54 nautical miles from Denmark, in the North Atlantic Last night was our last formal, I ate much too much, but was it good food. This morning, the ladies of our group were to walk 5 km having paid 15$ for a t-shirt and pink plastic bracelet, all for the cure(cancer), Vicky is still under the weather, but 3 of us walked for an hour, with the captain, about 12 laps of the lower promenade deck; Terry and I used to do 8 laps in am and 8 laps in pm on sea days during the world cruise 2005. We lost trivia again this morning and Terry is off playing in a poker tournament to win our expenses on board. Love to all and see you real soon. ... read more

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 3 bus ticket and toured the 3 loops: Christina (palaces), Carlsberg(beer) and the harbour. At the end of the day, this loop brought us back to the front door of the ship. The sun came ... read more

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 Ella and Leon to buy Akvit I went with 3 to visit the living museum at Skansen( 150 blgs) We all met at the hop off hop on bus stop #9- not arranged, walked to ... read more

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 their families Bus again to canal boat tour, after an hour tour, we came out of a small palace canal at 11:59 for the 12 noon shooting of the canon close to the one signaling ... read more