St. Petersburg and the Baltics

On May 15th our next adventure begins. We will head to Helsinki,
Estonia, St. Petersburg, Latvia, Lithuania and Belgium for 2 weeks.
You may notice that one of these places is not like the other ones.
We had to fly out somewhere and we have this picture of Bruges up on
the third floor and I really like it (that picture is uploaded here
too) so that is where we are flying back from.

Why the Baltics? Some of our best travel experiences have been in the
places that have not been over run by American tourists -- like
Croatia and Slovenia. Vilnius has been of interest since I saw TPT's
production of Benjamin Franklin -- The old Paris scenes were shot
there and they looked cool-- so there the seed was planted.

Russia - St. Petersburg? Russia has always been something so
intriguing and foreign that if you were that close why wouldn't you
go?

-David