An old fort on the way out of St Petersburg, we set sail just on dinner time all seated in the dining room and getting stuck into the FREE Spanish wine. It just made the view that much better
What a bonus that was we think it was free at lunch but if we had gone down that path all sight seeing would have been the back of our eyelids and we gained a few ZZZZZZZZZZZ.........
We meet this ice in the largest lake in Europe and the ice breaker had been through the day before, we were the 2nd ship to start the summer voyages. The first ship had had to have the icebreaker with it to get through.
Small villages along the River system, some areas were very poor looking compared to the city where you could have been in any city in Europe
At other spots there were logging towns that were harvesting Baltic pine for the European market no doubt for IKEA well it is a thought
