Thursday, 23 May – Kuzino
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Wednesday, May 22, Yaroslavl
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Tuesday, 21 May Uglich
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Monday, May 20, Sail Moscow Canal
Sunday May 19 – Moscow by Night
We left on the bus at 9:15 PM. We actually fell asleep on the bus which took us back to Red Square and the Kremlin. The lights of the Kremlin and St Basil’s Cathedral are amazing.
Moscow, Sunday the 19th
We had a morning tour of the Tretyakov Gallery. This is a collection of art by Russian artists. Many of them had gone to elsewhere in Europe to study, so the art was European portraiture of the various centuries. The big interest item for us was the Icon collection. We started with a bus ride Continue Reading
Saturday, May 18 – Moscow Walking Tour and Concert
Sunny and beautiful. We had a whirlwind day. We woke around 6 am which is pretty good with 7 hour jet lag. After a continental breakfast, we went for a nice walk in the park. After that their was a mandatory safety briefing where we had to go to our state rooms and don the Continue Reading
16 to 17 May Flight to Moscow
Our cruise is titled “Waterway of the Czars”. We started the cruise by taking a car service ride to Logan Airport in Boston. We were traveling with Alice and Bert Ferran, so we were able to split the costs. Our Lufthansa flight left around 5 PM and got to Frankfort at 6 am. The flight Continue Reading
September 26 – Return Home
We got up in the morning, had breakfast and then went around the ship taking various pictures in the stairwells. They had the the Bayeaux Tapestry as the main theme for these stairwells and some other interesting art elsewhere in the ship. Our return didn’t have the same problems as going out. The only issue Continue Reading
September 25 – Copenhagen
Sunday evening, we left Warnemunde and overnight got to Copenhagen. In the morning, we went on a walking tour if about 4 miles, seeing the Little Mermaid, and the royal palaces. After lunch on the ship, we took a Viking-provided bus back into town and went to the Natural History Museum. We spent over an Continue Reading