Trip: Europe 2011
There are [14] stories from my trip: Europe 2011
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011 | Views [415]
on my first entry I ran out of energy outlining my itinerary so here goes, picking it up in Tallinn, Estonia then a 2-hour ferry ride to Helsinki, where we spent 2 nights then a 3 1/2 hour train ride to St. Petersburg, where we spent FOUR nights back ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 8 Sep 2011 | Views [278] | Comments [1]
arrived in torrential rain day before yesterday and am enjoying a few days of relative relaxation in London although i swore to myself that i would do absolute NO walking or standing on hard marble floors after going through palace boot camp in St. ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 5 Sep 2011 | Views [1221]
yesterday we drove out to the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo (aka Pushkin when it was no longer fashionable/p.c. to refer to the tsars) in many ways just as opulent/OTT as the Hermitage complex but with fewer well-known artworks - the Empress Elizabeth, ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Sunday, 4 Sep 2011 | Views [1311]
wanted to add an entry about another part of St. Petersburg/Leningrad's history not as glamorous as the Winter Palace or Tsarskoe Selo - the siege of Leningrad i'd read about it as part of WWII history but it never hit home - there is a very moving ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 3 Sep 2011 | Views [425] | Comments [2]
arrived yesterday via train from Helsinki in beautiful St. Petersburg - even after seeing lots of photos etc. it's impossible to imagine the gorgeousness of the palaces churches forts etc. of this amazing city - i am STILL having major problems with ... Read more >
FINLAND | Thursday, 1 Sep 2011 | Views [323]
the ferry from tallinn to helsinki is only about 2 hours on a very large and luxurious ship that has several restaurants ranging from pizza/burgers up thru white table cloth with great views - some of us went to the cafeteria in the price range in between ... Read more >
ESTONIA | Tuesday, 30 Aug 2011 | Views [204]
FINALLY got web access in Russia altho not in Estonia and Finland (would have expected the other way around maybe) so am working off sketchy notes (period of withdrawal from email was terrible - am reading a wonderful book that Miranda gave me in Spain ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 29 Aug 2011 | Views [269]
because i'm crazy and didn't plan very well, i flew from mallorca via geneva to london for just ONE night and am now back at heathrow for a flight to frankfurt to connect to tallinn - a LOT of walking thru endless airport corridors, exacerbated by a ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 25 Aug 2011 | Views [233]
am now in beautiful but oh so HOT mallorca - flew on a new airline (for me) called flybe from Exeter in Devon - full of brits going on holiday - lots of kids who screamed (mostly in delight) at both takeoff and landing - christopher and miranda and i ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 | Views [411]
rosie and i love to visit stately homes and today we went to a really interesting one called Trerice near Newquay, parts dating back to elizabethan times - incredibly, there is a very large mullioned window in the great hall with some panes going back ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 22 Aug 2011 | Views [339] | Comments [3]
rosie here in cornwall says that i seem to get myself photographed everywhere in the world - so here's another one - standing in 2 hemispheres in Greenwich
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 22 Aug 2011 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 22 Aug 2011 | Views [283]
got to london on thursday afternoon (will review Virgin Atlantic in another entry) and have been running around like a crazy person ever since went to the newly-reopened Hotel Savoy for a drink - 14.50 (POUNDS) for any drink + service - so Kate and ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 18 Aug 2011 | Views [453] | Comments [1]
After a long time of wanting to go to St. Petersburg, I'm at last on the way. My mother and I went to Moscow in 1966 when she was invited to a conference of psychologists at the University of Moscow. It was the first trip overseas for both of us and ... Read more >
