Today our driver took us outside of St. Petersburg to Pushkin, also known as The Tsar’s Village or Tsarskoye Seloe. There we toured the small church that was favored by Nicholas II and the Catherine, or Summer Palace. Just a Continue reading →

I think we’ll sleep well tonight. We walked our little feet off, plus climbed 262 steps to the colonnade of St. Isaac’s cathedral. We had morning on our own, so all 6 of us went to St. Isaac’s. On the Continue reading →

Yesterday was a lost day. The seas were really rough Friday night. Things were flying off the shelf in our cabin and the captain said the ship was at 17 degree angles at times. Didn’t sleep much as a result. Continue reading →

We docked early this morning in Trondheim, where six of us started the day with a brisk 2 1/2 mile walk. We went onboard and walked around the oldest ship in the line which was docked next to us. The Continue reading →

First of all, I want to report that the Midnight Concert we went to was well worth it. It was in a “cathedral” – bigger than a church here but smaller than cathedrals in larger cities. The A-frame shape resulted Continue reading →

Today dawned sunny and mostly clear, so all the snow that had been falling was sparkly white. We are now on our return sailing to Bergen with stops in different towns or in some of the same but at a Continue reading →

We have reached the northernmost and also the easternmost point of our journey in Norway. The activity level for the Northern Lights is high and fortunately the sky cleared enough last night to give us a spectacular show. The entire Continue reading →

We are close to the northernmost point in Europe. During the night our ship passed through snow storms with high waves. A couple of times I thought I was going to slide right out of my berth! The snow came Continue reading →

We have been so lucky with weather that I think we got spoiled. Today is more the typical winter day that we both grew up with – gray, sunless and snow flurries. We went for a short walk ashore at Continue reading →