I had this post all prepared last night, but I couldn’t get connected on the ship. I shut down my laptop without thinking about it and lost it all.
\nI’m now sitting in a coffee shop in Estonia that has free WiFi. This mini-PC has really come in handy!<\/p>\n
After I posted Monday night, we went to a show on the ship. A troupe of Russian dancers came on board and performed for us. It was quite nice; a mixture of traditional and modern dancing and singing.<\/p>\n
Tuesday we went to see the Peterhof Fountains. They are a part of one of the palaces of Peter the Great. The fountains are quite magnificent, with lots of guilded statues. Well worth seeing. On the way back to the cruise ship we rode on a hydrofoil boat. I believe that was the fastest I’ve gone on the water, though Richard’s ski boat may have been faster. It wasn’t as big, though.<\/p>\n
Tallin, Estonia is a beautiful town on the Baltic shore of Estonia. I don’t know much about Estonia. Apparently the people are related to the Finns. The languages are said to be similar. They have a history of being occupied, first by Sweden, then Russia, then Germany, then Russia, then Germany, then Russia again… They have been independent since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991. The population of the whole country is only a little over 1 million. Tallin is a small city, but very modern and clean. It is a very old city, with castles and churches from around the year 1200. Very nice — I wish we had more time here, though if we did Gisele would probably use it to shop more. She is at the open-air market square right now as I write this.<\/p>\n
We are leaving here at noon, then on to Gdansk, Poland tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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