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10D/9N to Baltic Sea - Embarking from Copenhagen
I always wanted to visit the Northern Scandinavian countries so this cruise was just the perfect itinerary.
Cruise started from Copenhagen (Denmark), to Warnemunde (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), Saint Petersburg 2 days (Russia), Helsinki (Finland), Nynashamn (Sweden) and back to Copenhagen.
This is my 8th cruise and I like cruises because it saves me trouble of renting a car, driving too much, plus many roads are much narrower in certain places and you can't take too much luggage with you.
I had driven around Germany, Prague, Vienna for 2+ weeks in a trip 2 years ago and I'm fine with it too.
With a cruise, best part is no worries on finding places to stay or possible car accidents, parking, packing and unpacking etc. Ideal for scouting many countries in one go, and if you like a certain place, just visit it in future.
Some may be wary of such a huge floating hotel with 4000+ guest and 1500+ crews but it's got it's fun....next time I will try the smaller cruise ships.
Weather is awesome, no rain in all 10 days, can't complain.
Too many photos so I selected few highlights and will post in subsequent thread under this for other cities.
Hope you will enjoy these photo journey....Stay tuned for next Port of call.
Rgds
Raymond
Denmark is famous for these open face sandwiches.
Marble Church
Palace in Copenhagen
Great architecture
We purists will always visit watch shops and quite surprised to see a Patek Philippe 5930G, 5235G and A Lange Sohne RL PLM on display. Also tried this Breguet Classique grand feu but felt it's a little big at 40mm.
Anyways, this trip is not for watches so I wasn't prepared to bring home any.
The famous Nyhavn
Also the famous Little Mermaid
Her watch needs sun screen lotion too
Anyways, this trip is not for watches so I wasn't prepared to bring home any.
The famous Nyhavn
Also the famous Little Mermaid
Her watch needs sun screen lotion too
10D/9N to Baltic Sea - Embarking from Copenhagen
I always wanted to visit the Northern Scandinavian countries so this cruise was just the perfect itinerary. Cruise started from Copenhagen (Denmark), to Warnemunde (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), Saint Petersburg 2 days (Russia), Helsinki (Finland), Nynasha...
First Port - Warnemunde
Seriously I have never heard about this place, closest most famous city is Berlin which is about 1.5~2 hours away by train. We visited a smaller city Rostock and it's quite charming. One of the cathedrals actually houses the oldest astronomical clock acco...
Lovey pics!
Seems you enjoyed it well! Great year to do this as weather been nothing but extraordinary in the nordics this season!
Thanks K...beautiful places, will visit again.
More to come, especially the ones St Petersburg are quite eye opening.
Thanks for the beautiful pictures og my hometown of Copenhagen 🇩🇰👍🏻
And yes we have a few good AD’s 😊 Hope you enjoyed the trip.
You are lucky, we love Copenhagen, good thing we went there to stay for 2 nights before the cruise...
Looks like lots of construction going on in the city center.
Yes for many years the City center has been under construction
Metro, roads, buildings etc. A petty, but necessary.
2nd Port - Tallinn, Estonia
I'll skip the sea day as we are just eating and enjoying shows The historical old town is really nice! We were walking along narrow cobblestone streets and then it opened up to a large square with many merchants dressed in medieval costumes, great place t...
Too bad :)
The Baltic cuisine - at least the places I managed to sample so far - is quite nice...
Nice and most of my meals are paid for ... on the cruise by myself 🤣
so we mostly spent time in cafes and go explore, lunch time will be too precious. We did enjoy a decent dinner when we stayed in Copenhagen before the cruise, a very organic meal in Hotel SP34. ...
3rd Port - St Petersburg, Russia (Day 1)
The cruise had to stay overnight to let us enjoy St Petersburg for 2 full days and we chose the excursion - Highlights of St Petersburg plus A Night with Russian Ballet, lovely and glad we did that, so much to see and in awe! Now I know a bit of the Roman...
Maybe you know this ... why TO post doesn’t appear on Front Page?
and where’s our mod Mr Green?
Found this out recently, too...
It does appear on the Front Page in the app but not on the website...
St Petersburg, Russia (Day 2)
This was the next day after Russia lost their place in World Cup so I was a little worried on passing through immigrations but it was easier than Day 1, probably because we already had our visas. We visited Catherine's Palace and Peterhof Palace, also kno...
Next Port: Helsinki, Finland (Hello dr.kol Kari!)
Well, we did not arrange to meet but I was here in Finland (Rovaniemi) in April for a winter driving event. This time was different, leisure visiting. Sibelius Monument Famous rock church Helsinki Cathedral Uspenski Cathedral And the man was here before t...
Final Port - Nynashamn (Sweden)
As our cruise ship was too huge, docking in Stockholm is impossible so we stopped at Nynashamn, which is 1 hr away by car....not too bad because we can dock early. The main attraction in Stockholm is the Vasa Museum. Vasa is a battleship built in the 17th...
nice!
hope you enjoyed Stockholm, looks like you had a wonderful time! even time for some shopping for the boss
Oh yes, that's your home town, right?
It's a great country, lots of green space and nature, plus history and heritage, lucky you, K. I would love to visit again...yes my boss is happy , if the Copenhagen airport has a better color Jypsiere, she will be even happier, almost 30% lower than US p...
We’re visiting Paris then Sintra, Lisbon in September 😳
I’m sure she will find something again 😱. Thanks for the wishes 😊