Ship with rather large list…..note port of registry Kingston known for professionalism…
Russian hover craft, only one parked here there is however space for about 10 more.
War prize Kreuzenshtern taken from the Germans after WW2 (as was Kaliningrad)
Lenins fading face, in more ways than one
Local transport system
Ships moored in the basin at Baltysk
Sunset on the canal
I have installed a hit counter called Countersize from Andersdrengen.dk on my site to monitor the modest traffic I get or to see who is visiting the site, it gives details of the IP(internet provider) number so I don’t see any names or anything but when I look up the IP I see country and city details. All the Irish IP’s are from Dublin but I know that the brother in Cork has hit and the Ma and Da in Wexford have logged in, so not the most accurate counter but it gives me an idea. So big deal lots of sites have counters.
Well on further investigation I have been getting hits from around the globe Taiwan, Uruguay, UK and New Zealand (must be my cousin Hi! hope things are great!) even hits from the good old USA. Washington DC, Dallas Texas and Virginia and Sunnyvale California, greetings to you all. I was wondering about Washington DC and Virginia, and put 2 and 2 together and came up with the CIA and the NSA? Well if it’s true here is something for youse lads to have a gawk at!
We are in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, once the Naval Base for the Soviet Baltic fleet and at great personal risk took the following shots, God bless the digital camera. I didn’t have the guts to dare take a shot of the large contingency of officials in military attire that arrived onboard after docking but suffice to say there were a lot, and in good bureaucratic fashion they wanted to see all the documents of the persons on board, my Irishness was as usual a source of confusion. Put it this way I know as much about Kaliningrad as they do about Ireland, not much. I got a few nice stamps in my book anyway.
There is a lot of money pouring in to Russia, the most notable changes are the amount of building activity, new jetties, lots of container traffic. Also the concept of painting more than once seems to have bitten in the place looks a lot fresher and cleaner thanks to a few coats of paint. And last but not least, the workwear is from Sweden and the cars from Germany and other European countries. I did see one Lada and it was upside down minus wheels, probably more useful in that state. Anyway the bear is waking up again, learn Russian!
Off to Porvoo in Finland now, bye for now.
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