Back to normal again :-)

 Sunset at sea

First day at work after a wonderful vacation.

The centrum of the ship at Captain's welcoming party

We returned home on Saturday after our gorgeous cruise around the Baltic Sea where we got to visit Helsinki, St Petersburg, Riga, Gdynia, Sopot, Gdansk and Visby before returning to Stockholm.

The Winterpalace in St Petersburg, Russia

 Gorgeous house in Riga, Latvia

 Dinner in the sky (I just wonder how they do if they need to go to the restroom)

 Submarine outside of Gdynia, Poland

 Lech Walenskas house, former president of Poland

Me and Hasse on the tender boat to Visby

I love the Vision of the Seas, one of the smaller ships in RCCL's fleet. We had, just like last time, a junior suite with a big balcony. Compared to other ships this balcony is huge and was in frequent use by us, both mornings and nights.

Breakfast on the balcony

I love the sound of the waves at night when going to sleep and the gentle rocking of the ship which makes you sleep like a baby :-)

Of all the places we saw I loved Riga the most. What a beautiful city, gorgeous houses, a very interesting history and parks. Beautiful parks.

The one I was least fond of was Gdansk but I think that was the guide's fault. She was terrible!! The worst I've ever had. She read directly from a paper and repeated everything at least 4 times. She named a lot of hotels along the way but nothing about the history of Poland, nor of Solidaricy or the killing of the wharf workers in 1970, or how they coped during worldwar II. Just this annoying repeating of uninteresting things. Very sad because I think there are so many interesting things to tell and to see.

As usual in St Petersburg we had rain, lots of rain. They say it rain 300 days a year! Can you believe that? This is sad because this time we took a canalcruise as well as sightseeing on bus. On the canal boat it started raining but I sat outside because I wanted to take good photos. On with the rain poncho and I was the only one up on deck. But once we reached Neva river it rained so much that even I had to go down :-)

Our cabin

The outside pool area. This is taken while we were in Helsinki

Visby of course we love but we haven't been there for a couple of years so it was nice to walk around there again. Our good friends Kitte, Janne and Laila came down to the tender and met us and then we went for coffee in St Hans ruin. Then we walked around Visby for a couple of hours and of course the weather was gorgeous!

So now it's back to normal again and today I was at work. In a way it's good to start working again because I do love my job.

Oh, by the way did you see H.E.A.T on Sommarkrysset TV4 Saturday July 21? We tried but the connection at sea was terrible. Here's a link to their performance if you missed it:

H.E.A.T plays Living on the run

Take care now and I'll talk to you soon!