• From Russia With Lover

    8/9/200812:38:51 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment

    We had just returned from our cruise to the Baltic Sea and I thought I would continue to share our experiences with you.

     Another day at sea for the 3200 tired guests to enjoy all the pleasures of shipboard life. Sherwyn is happy to see us again . . . . he will have a good crowd at the main pool today. Wake up early and pick a couple of deck chairs so that we may enjoy the bright sun which has been with us most of the trip. A bit of a chilly wind, but we are in the center pool under the glass dome and enjoying the heated pool. Tonight we will be spending another evening with our friends in the Supper Club . . . . . . I think I will have the Crab Cakes . . . . . . . Caesar Salad (prepared table side) . . . . . Porterhouse Steak with Wasabi mashed potatoes . . . . . and for desert I am thinking . . . . Trio of Crème Brule . . . . if I can get the chef to make one up for me.
     
    The Supper club is at the stern of the ship, so during dinner I went to the aft deck and saw an incredible site. To my left . . . . the sun with a bright orange glow was setting . . . . . to my right a full moon with a bright orange glow was rising . . . . both barely above the horizon . . . and between them the orange glow seemed to bounce above the water and below the white wispy clouds. It was a beautiful site, but hard to describe . . . and I without my camera.
     
    Anyways, it’s off to Russia tomorrow for two days is St Petersburg. We have scheduled ourselves on a 9 hour tour which takes us out of the city and begins at Catherine’s Palace. I don’t think the country was so poor . . . just that all of the money and jewels went to the Czar’s and the other higher ups.
     
    While disembarking the ship, you instantly know who’s in charge. Generally it’s the 280 pound . . . . former women’s weightlifting competitor . . . . sitting in the chair grooming her beard . . . . and never a smile. I think the only English she knows is . . . “PASSPORT” . . “NOW” . . . . . . but, overall, the people of Russia were fantastic. There seems to be two types of women in Russia. . . . . . . . those that check passports . . . . and those that are petite and gorgeous.
     
    After exiting the city, on our way to the Palace, there is a semi circle ridge around St Petersburg. This is the ridge . . . . we were told . . . was where Germany parked nearly 1000 tanks and pounded the city . . . . . . day and night . . . . . night and day. As you know . . . Germany never took the city. The part which I did not know was that 80% of the 3 ½ million population died from shelling, sickness and starvation.
     
    During this tour . . . in addition to Catherine’s Palace . . . . we visited many churches and monuments. The most famous of which was the Church of the Spilled Blood on the exact spot where Alexander the 2nd was killed. Across from this church was the best shopping we had seen while in Russia. It was our last tour stop and we were getting nervous because we had promised our grand daughters each a Russian doll. This is where we found them . . . . and they bargain . . . . . and they take credit cards . . . . . and they like U.S. Dollars. We also had time for our beer around the world tour. We enjoyed a nice cold Balctika before heading back to the ship. However . . . . the preferred drink . . .  as they say . . . . . .
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    . . . . . . . Vodka, the national drink of Russia
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