Finnish Design (and other reasons I loved Helsinki)

I have to admit a love of Scandinavian architecture and design made Helsinki one of the most highly anticipated stops on the cruise for me. I longed to wander through a city of design shops and marvel at the beautiful buildings. And among other things, we managed to do that with our short 9 hour…

St. Petersburg by Boat

This is part of a series of posts about our Baltic Cruise. If you’re interested in our other ports of call, check out the links below: Warnemunde and Rostock 24 Hours in Copenhagen Beautiful Talinn St. Petersburg is the reason many people take a Baltic Cruise, visiting Russia is intimidating and expensive with the visa…

Warnemunde and Rostock

The first stop on our Baltic cruise was Rostock, on the north German coast line. Having just been to Berlin, we didn’t want to take the 7 hours of driving and 5 hours of sight seeing tours offered by the cruise line, so it was off to Rostock the port city and Warnemunde, the beach…

24 Hours in Copenhagen

Actually, it was slightly less than 24 hours since our flight was delayed by a few hours, but who’s counting? After checking into our tiny (but central) hotel room, we set out on our self guided walking tour of the city. We ran into two other groups wielding Rick Steves books on the same route….