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A bit late, but here's the photo gallery from my european cruise last year; Of note is the visit to Normandy and St. Petersburg for most of you fellows.


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001-014 Horta, Azores
015-027 Lisbon, Portugal
038-050 Cobh, Ireland
051-064 Dartmouth, England
065-072 Mulberry wreckage at Arromanches (Normandy Beaches)
074-084 Allied Cemetary at Omaha Beach (Normandy Beaches)
085-089 More of Omaha Beach (Normandy Beaches)
090-100 Point du Hoc (Normandy Beaches)
101-108 Harwich, England
109-115 Kiel Canal transit
116-125 Helsinki, Finland
126-247 St. Petersburg, Russia
137-158 The Hermitage (St. Petersburg)
168-207 Canal Tour (lots of stuff, including Peter & Paul Fortress, the Admiralty, Hermitage exterior, etc)
198-207 Cruiser Aurora (St. Petersburg)
212-247 Departure from St. Petersburg down the River Neva.
212-216, 229 Submarine Narodovolets (Was moored ahead of our cruise ship)
233, 237-239 Kilo class sub in floating Drydock
248-254 Tallin, Estonia

VERY nice pictures!

St. Petersburg has spruced up since was there in '95!

And the "Mulberry" remnants are cool!

Looks like you had a good time!

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Originally posted by Commodore Green
Looks like you had a good time!

Mom did. I had the misfortune of being the youngest guest on the ship; I was 25, the next youngest was 48. I enjoyed seeing many of those sights, tho, even if the Museum at Arromanches tried to kill me. (:

It would've been nice to see more of St. Pete (The Admiralty, naval museum, and actually go aboard the Aurora), but the Russian Government is not very tourist-friendly; We were limited to 3 or 4 cruise-run bus/boat tours. If we wanted to do anything besides those, we had to apply and pay 250 per person for a tourist visa....and everything was closed on Mondays anyway. The bonus to that was, we got into the Hermitage while it was technically 'closed', so we got through it quicker and saw a lot more than most tours would.

Likewise, I wanted to visit the Britannia Naval College while at Dartmouth, but it was closed. A bus screwup prevented most of the ship from even getting off the freight-dock in Amsterdam, too. They had 2 50-person buses providing hour long roundtrip service to the actual city to serve about 700 passengers.