Helsinki harbour
The deck bar - oddly named 'The Drunk Rabbit' and serving 'themed' fast food.
Passing Sveaborg
Smart Viking XPRS
The dining room - little altered since the ferry was built in the early-1980s.
St Petersburg arrival.
Brutalist suburbs.
Downtown Art Nouveau.
Metro trip to the suburbs. The escalators are magnificent.
Whizzy university building.
Tree in park still with Christmas decorations.
Back on the Metro.
Stalinist Art Deco stations.
Derelict power station, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
Back aboard Princess Maria:
Dinner - herring followed by venison.
