Cornishpastyman1 Posted September 17, 2010 #1 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Footage, photos and facts from my time with Alla Tours (who were excellent) on 3rd/4th June 2010 - this is what we saw in addition to a bit of city sight-seeing, on the 2-day 'moderate' tour : The Fountains of Peterhof The Catherine Palace at Pushkin Peter and Paul Fortress/Cathedral St Isaac's Cathedral Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood The Winter Palace/Hermitage State Museum Videos from the other ports on the 11-day Baltic Cruise (HAL Eurodam) : Copenhagen Tallin Helsinki Suomenlinna (Fortress of Finland) Stockholm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NweRnGqZ1k Royal Warship Vasa & the Vasa Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45l1WMZOXA It's not really a shore excursion, but if you're sailing from Dover and have a car the Battle of Britain Memorial is well worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9SifcE_uA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other cruise destinations' videos : Normandy Beaches and Honfleur (3 videos) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1193997 Full Panama Canal transit (Pacific-Atlantic) (2) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1192555 Eastern Mediterranean (7) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1191713 Sights of Berlin and the History of the Berlin Wall (2) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1194011 If the links don't work you can find them by searching on my YouTube username, which is also 'Cornishpastyman1' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornishpastyman1 Posted September 17, 2010 Author #2 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Footage, photos and facts from my time with Alla Tours (who were excellent) on 3rd/4th June 2010 - this is what we saw in addition to a bit of city sight-seeing, on the 2-day 'moderate' tour : The Fountains of Peterhof The Catherine Palace at Pushkin Peter and Paul Fortress/Cathedral St Isaac's Cathedral Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood The Winter Palace/Hermitage State Museum Videos from the other ports on the 11-day Baltic Cruise (HAL Eurodam) : Copenhagen Tallin Helsinki Suomenlinna (Fortress of Finland) Stockholm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NweRnGqZ1k Royal Warship Vasa & the Vasa Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45l1WMZOXA It's not really a shore excursion, but if you're sailing from Dover and have a car the Battle of Britain Memorial is well worth a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9SifcE_uA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other cruise destinations' videos : Normandy Beaches and Honfleur (3 videos) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1193997 Full Panama Canal transit (Pacific-Atlantic) (2) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1192555 Eastern Mediterranean (7) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1191713 Sights of Berlin and the History of the Berlin Wall (2) http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1194011 If the links don't work you can find them by searching on my YouTube username, which is also 'Cornishpastyman1' Drat ! The correct link for Peterhof (amended in the above too) is Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennisobo Posted October 9, 2010 #3 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Very nice! I especially enjoyed your music choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornishpastyman1 Posted October 31, 2010 Author #4 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Thanks Susan, The tracks were : Peterhof - The Young Prince and Princess from Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) Catherine Palace - Solveig's Song from the Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg) P & P Fortress - 'The Romance' from Larsson's (Swedish composer) Pastoral suite St Isaac's Cathedral - Piano concerto no.3, 1st movement by Rachmaninoff Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood - The Creed by Gretchaninoff Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum - Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev and Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love) from the soundtrack to Dr Zhivago by the Tony Osborne Orchestra. The general idea was to use as much Russian music as possible. The choice for the Church on the Spilled Blood is to these tin ears a bit of a dirge but the friend who lent me the CDs for all this insisted that a Russian Orthodox Church must have Russian Orthodox Church. Fair enough I suppose :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruzer Two Posted April 3, 2011 #5 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Thanks Susan, The tracks were : Peterhof - The Young Prince and Princess from Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) Catherine Palace - Solveig's Song from the Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg) P & P Fortress - 'The Romance' from Larsson's (Swedish composer) Pastoral suite St Isaac's Cathedral - Piano concerto no.3, 1st movement by Rachmaninoff Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood - The Creed by Gretchaninoff Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum - Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev and Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love) from the soundtrack to Dr Zhivago by the Tony Osborne Orchestra. The general idea was to use as much Russian music as possible. The choice for the Church on the Spilled Blood is to these tin ears a bit of a dirge but the friend who lent me the CDs for all this insisted that a Russian Orthodox Church must have Russian Orthodox Church. Fair enough I suppose :) You videos brought back some great memories of my visit to St. Petersburg. Great job - thanks for sharing. Cruzertwo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvof11 Posted April 26, 2011 #6 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Drat ! The correct link for Peterhof (amended in the above too) is Apologies. Thanks so much very informative. Pauline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pberk Posted April 26, 2011 #7 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Nice job on the videos. Lots of information. I often find I learn more about a place when I'm back home than I did when I was there. The process of making the video always reveals things I didn't know. That whole Baltic trip is so fantastic ! .. For anyone on the fence about going --- DO IT .. Here's a link to my videos of our Baltic trip in 2009 .. http://www.youtube.com/user/PandaCruises?feature=mhum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.