June 29-30, 2019 Just before we arrived at the end the Curonian Spit, we stopped for dinner at what looked like a lodge surrounded by cab...

June 29, 2019 In an earlier post I mentioned the Curonian Spit, a geographical and geological oddity that separates the Baltic Sea fro...

  June 29, 2020 Remember that story about Bob's grandfather serving a mission in Konigsberg and the missionary who tragically drown...

June 29, 2019 We began our day with a city tour led by our guide, Irina. She had a list she wanted to get through and didn't adju...

A large park surrounds the Ascension Eastern Orthodox Cathedral, and in that park is a war memorial that honors both the Bolshevik Revolut...

Kazakhstan and Russia share 4,254 miles of border, so it is no wonder that there has been a strong Russian presence in Kazakhstan for ce...

On our first day in St. Petersburg, we cruised past Peter and Paul Fortress on our riverboat cruise. It was the last place we visited befor...

All that exercise of strolling around cathedrals and ooh-ing and ah-ing and gasping with delight makes one hungry.  Following our visit to ...