We arrived in St Petersburg in the early morning sunshine. Soon people started leaving the ship to embark on the various tours that were taking place today. We had booked on a panoramic city tour which involved no interior visits … Read More
Day Six–Helsinki
We once again awoke to a calm sea and bright sunshine, the clocks had gone forward another hour last night meaning that as we arrived in Helsinki we were two hours in advance of the UK.
The city itself … Read More
Day Six–Knowing You Stockholm, Knowing Me.
The city of Stockholm sits at the end of a long archipelago comprising of some 24,000 islands and inlets, which we started navigating through in the early hours of the morning.
You could say “I Had a Dream” but was … Read More
Day Five–Table tennis at last.
The Celebrity Eclipse is a very different ship than the others on which we have travelled catering as it does more for an American market. Although British passengers probably make up the majority the mix is very cosmopolitan with Americans, … Read More
Day Four–Berlin?? Actually Warnemunde.
If you know anything about German geography you will quickly realise that Berlin is not on the Baltic coast, in fact it isn’t on any coast at all. As this is the closest that many will ever get to the … Read More