A Small Port of Call

Trip Start Sep 13, 1997
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Trip End Oct 02, 1997


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Monday, September 22, 1997

We sailed into Northern Russia region and got closer to St. Petersburg. Today's stop- Vytegra, a small town halfway on the Moscow- St. Petersburg waterway. It is a small town, sort of miserable looking. We tour a local museum with the exhibition about how Russians built canals and locks to connect Moscow to the Baltic Sea. None of the instruction is in English. And this museum is housed in a former church, with onion-domes, of course. The tour lasted only about an hour or so.

Our ship stayed in this port for about 9 hours, twice the time as in Yaroslavl. Some of the passengers in our ship took half an hour's walk to the local market. I and my mom took a very long nap again. I heard that market looked so miserable and there are so few fresh stuff sold there. I don't know if I were lucky or not to miss seeing these.....

Another on-board concert was held tonight. They played mainly classic music this time. Works of several famous Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky, was performed.

Tchaikovsky, one of my favorite artists of all time, will be visited by me in St. Petersburg. No, I mean, his tomb will be visited by me.......
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