...to test some maneuvers as the ferry was only two weeks old.
From the island of Muhu we went southeast to Kuressaare on the island Saaremaa where we stayed for two nights.
That evening we ate in an old, Dutch styled, windmill.
This year I decided to go on vacation to somewhere I had never been before and never really thought about going to: the Baltic States and Saint Petersburg.
Our - I went with a group there - flight was scheduled to depart at early in the afternoon from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, but as always you have to check in a few hours in advance. Nothing special about that, but that morning I was still without my passport. No one in the group had his or her passport and we all knew about that, but it's not a very comfortable feeling.
The Baltic States are part of the European Union (EU) so I can go there without the need of a passport, but not to Saint Petersburg. For Russia you need a visa and that took longer than expected. That's why none of us had our passports. Just before check-in we all got them back from the tour guide and all was well.
Waiting at the gate before departure someone noticed I had the same book about the Baltic States so I already met some people.
We flew via Frankfurt, Germany, to Vilnius, Lithuania. On Frankfurt Airport we had to wait in line for the mighty Airbus A380 to take off. Once arrived in Vilnius we entered a bus that took us to our hotel.
All but two went to the city center for our first dinner.