Thursday, August 2 , 2012

We flew out of Riga, Latvia on a “puddle-jumper” plane and landed in Tallinn, Estonia about an hour later.  It was interesting in that we did not have to go through Customs or show our passports to anyone !  

 However, they did have a security dog who checked every passenger when they disembarked and then the luggage on the carousel.  A very nice young lady sold us a bus ticket (2 Euros apiece) and gave us directions and a map to the port, where our ship was docked.  Then the bus driver went out of his way to drop us off at the entrance to the pier where our ship was.  Everyone has been so helpful and our rendezvous with our ship went like clockwork.  We could have not asked for a better experience !

When we were boarding the ship, Security had to call someone to bring us new boarding cards and one of the ship’s officers said they were wondering when we were going to get here !  It is nice to be back with our “stuff” and setting out for St. Petersburg.  We will be there for 2 days and had to sign up for a couple of tours to be able to go ashore, as we didn’t have VISAs …..