St. Petersburg (Russia) #1

Today  I am making a start with showing photo’s from the beautiful city of St. Petersburg. We took an excursion bus tour that lasted about 4 hours and I can tell you we have seen only a tiny little bit of what there is to see. There was a lot more to see with several different excursions but as my legs and feet are not what they used to be, I can only walk and stand a few minutes at a time, this was all we could choose. Most excursions were for a whole day ,in all other cities as well,and that is out of the question for me. I would have loved to visit the Hermitage, one of the most beautiful museums in the world, but that takes a lot of waiting and walking, so a no no for me.

But as I said we had this bustour and it was wonderful. We saw so many interesting things . I am just afraid that I don’t remember all of the things the guide told us. I mostly remember that St Petersburg is full of Palaces ,Cathedrals and bridges and all beautiful.

But I made photo’s and this is the first batch I am going to show. If I remember what’s on it I will put a name under it. And please google that name and you can find everything there. It is so interesting. I bought a book with photo’s and I trying to find out what it all is.

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probably little part of the Yusupov palace.

These were the only two letters I could read in this country.)

Thought this was Yusupov palace too.

Statue of Peter the Great. You can find these all over town.

Admiralty.

St Isaacs Cathedral. We didn’t have time to go in it but in my book I see that I missed a lot as it is fabulous. I really must go there again some day.

We were there on Whitsun Sunday and there were several brides there..

Sculpture on the church.

I always wonder how they make these beautiful sculptures.

I am still trying to find out which palace this is.

Another happy couple.

St Isaacs square and cathedral.

This is just a preview of one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen, The Church on the spilled blood. Next time I am going to show more photo’s of this church.

This blue is for blue Monday. I did nothing to change the colors. These are real.

I took this photo from the bus and I  really don’t know which church this is. I could see it was under construction.

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Neighborhood walk.

 

We love to go for a walk in our neighborhood and these days in all gardens everything is in full bloom. So colorfull and pretty.

Have a look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful, right?

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I will probably post about St Petersburg on Sunday.

Riga, gem of the Baltics

Riga, capital of Latvia and  a beautiful city. What did I know about it? Practically nothing. And a visit of only a couple of hours doesn’t help so I read a bit about it.

But I have  photo’s to give a little impression.

First  sight from the boat, all these churches and towers.

so beautiful

and..

When  we left the bus the first thing we saw was this high up in the air , don’t know a name for it. They must have had a beautiful view around.

Town square. The old city is Unesco world Heritage.

Young ladies in their national costumes singing and making music on the town square.

townhall.

Blackhead’s house.

Isn’t this fun, a partybike.

there was an art fair with such nice sculptures.

And off we went again to an other country.

If you want to know more about the long history of Riga and Latvia please use google. 

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Monday, Tuesday and the arboretum.

This morning I visited the arboretum in Rotterdam. As I hadn’t been there for a while of course I took my camera with me .

So no cruise photo’s today. Later this week or so I will post photo’s from beautiful St Petersburg (Russia) and more of the wonderful  places we visited.

 

Red roses , so beautiful.

 

This looked a bit sad.

 

The smell of these roses was wonderful.

 

Found a little blue for blue Monday.

 

Just another lady enjoying the gardens too.

 

He spotted some fish so right after I  took this photo he took of.

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Lithuania.

 

Our second stop was Klaipeda in Lithuania. Klaipeda is the third largest city in the country and has the northernmost port on the Baltic Sea.

If you want to know more about this very interesting city please try google.

We went for a walk and come and see what happened.

 

 

The bridge had to be opened for a sailboat. It seemed that at certain times of the day it was open for at least 15 minutes. So we walked on and I made a couple of photo’s.

 

 

A figurine of an almost drowned person.

A very old building and look how they kept it up, see next photo.

 

You had to be careful not to fall over the cross beam.

 

 

Yes lovely weather for a walk. For those who didn’t go on an excursion it was a great pastime.

 

And doesn’t every little girl in the world love pink?

 

 

And back to the ship again.

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