On the ferry, leaving Malta.
In the distance Gozo.
Landing in Mgarr Harbour.
Qala.
Looking towards Ir-Ramla.
Gaantija Temple. Built around 3600 BC.
Bay with Calypso’s cave.
Marasalforn.
Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary.
Sandstone quarry.
Dwejra Bay.
Xlendi Bay.
In Victoria.
Cathedral in the Citadel.
View from the citadel.
Church in Xewkija.
Back to Mgarr Harbour for the ferry to Malta.
My hotel. (The one in the middle.)
Boats moored in the bay.
Big hole? Put a car park in it.
Looking across to the 3 cities.
Senglea. (One of the three cities.)
Prickly pears.
Marsaxlokk.
Looking down to the Blue grotto.
Hagar Qim temple.
Mnajdra temple.
St Julian’s Bay.
My hotel room.
Malta football stadium.
Mosta Rotunda. (The third largest unsupported dome in the world.)
Mgarr parish church.
Golden Bay.
St Paul’s bay.
Salt pans.
M&S, BHS and Dorothy Perkins.
Boat on a trailer.
Grand Harbour
Behind the old harbour.
A truck with horns.
Mdina
Entrance to Mdina.
Inside Mdina.
Mdina Cathedral.
View of Malta from Mdina city walls.
In the distance Valletta.
Good to see they haven’t adopted metric yet.
Rabat
St Paul’s Catacombs.
A 4,000 year old crocodile.
Vertical windmill.
The aqueduct.
Auberge de Castille.
Manoel Island.
Looking across the bay to Sliema.
My hotel room.
The view from the hotel room across Spinola Bay.
Looking across the bay to Valletta.
The harbour from in Valletta.
Across the bay is Sengela and Fort St. Angelo.
The entrance to Valletta.
Last day.
So a trip to the Estonian open air museum.
Catching the trolley bus.
The wigwam shaped hut is a summer kitchen.
Barn with holes for cats to get in and protect the grain.
Deep in the Estonian forest.
Water mill and fire station.
Village shop.
School house.
Bendy trolley bus.
Medieval theme restaurant under the old town hall. (I had some elk soup.)
On the town wall.
The autons go medieval.
St. Olaf’s Church. Once one of the tallest buildings in the world at 125 meters.
View from the top.
Old town, new town.
Last wander around Tallinn.
Back at the apartment, it has 2 front doors to keep the cold out.
Tallinn by day.
Outside my flat. (Halfway between the main square and the tourist info.)
The St. Aleksander Nevski Cathedral and the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin.
Tallinn old town.
Estonian Parliament.
Kadrioru Park
Presidents palace and Kadriorg Art Museum (formally Peter the \greats palace in Tallinn).
The song festival grounds.
Ruins of Pirita Convent and the end of the 1980 Olympics sailing centre.
Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin
Old phone box and statues in the Occupation museum.
Kiek in de Kök and the Maidens tower.
Diving suits in the maritime museum.
No idea what was happening.
The seaplane museum.
Icebreaker Suur Töll. The worlds largest steam powered ice breaker.
Very posh for an icebreaker.
The cabin for the captains “assistant”. (Communist party member.)
A recently retired navy patrol boat. (With cd player on deck.)
Inside the Sea plane museum.
The Lembit submarine and a short 184 seaplane.
Inside the Lembit.
Military vehicle display
Last day in Helsinki.
Vatican nightclub!
Helsinki Cathedral.
Boat storage for the winter.
The Rock church.
Sibelius Monument.
Japanese tourists with a selfie stick. Their camera is at the end of the stick so they can take pictures of themselves.
The Finnish Parliament building.
Salmon and veg at the market.
Inside the ferry to Tallinn.
Leaving Helsinki.
3 hours later, Tallinn.
My apartment in Tallinn. They upgraded me from a studio to a 1 bed apartment. (Only £40 per night.)
A walk through night time Tallinn.
A morning tram ride around Helsinki.
Kauppahalli – the old market hall.
Selling from the boat.
Taking the ferry to Suomenlinna, the former defensive fort also known as Gibraltar of the north. (Also an UNESCO World Heritage site.)
Landing on the island.
The church tower is also a lighthouse.
The dry dock.
The lock gate flats out when the dry dock is flooded.
A quiet beach.
The kings gate.
The dry dock and the old dock gate.
Back in Helsinki.
The reindeer special. Reindeer sausages, reindeer meatballs and reindeer kebab meat.
They have a lot of tortoise statues about Helsinki. (They’re movable traffic barriers.)
The ships corridor, by my cabin.
Sunrise over the Baltic.
The time in Sweden and Finland.
Approaching Helsinki.
Helsinki.
We won’t fit through that gap.
Statues in Esplanadi park.
It’s the Herring fair!
My ferry.
Helsinki cathedral.
Finland national museum.
My apartment in Helsinki.
Inside the Nordiska Museum.
A mock up of a late 1940s Swedish apartment.
View from Skansen Open air museum & zoo.
If you lift the roof up it plays a tune.
The museum has a large collection of buildings from around Sweden. This is the Oktorpfarmstead.
Inside the farm house.
Swedish wolves. (In the zoo part.)
Rope sheep in the children’s play area
Sloth having lunch.
Lemur feeding time is 1:30pm.
A realistic environment for the primates.
A model of the museum and zoo.
My cabin on the night ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki.
The nightclub and café at the stern of the ship.
The ship pub.
A slightly foggy Stockholm viewed from the ship.
We look down on other boats.
The end of the royal canal.
Weaving our way through Stockholm archipelago.
Past a wedding.
Through narrow gaps.
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