SHARING WITH ME

Coming up to the Lock Closing in Coming out on the other side... A boat waiting to go into the lock... Day 5 already. We were to visit the small island of Kizhi. Just six kilometres long and one kilometre wide. One of the most ancient inhabited sites in Russia.  Everything is BIG in Russia. The Largest felt boot in the world…. Ajouter une légende Ajouter une légende In Kizhi there was a walking tour with a young guide. Very good English who told us about the farmhouses and windmill, the church of Transfiguration with its 22 domes …   A very much "patted" cat I liked this cemetry   Inside the church This was not a long excursion  at all and in the afternoon we were to resume our cruise…and take a few photos of the staff at dinner time. The restaurant staff Julia our favorite waitress

Not exactly the warmest of weather but after St Petersburg we had sun, very cold mornings and not too good in the late afternoons. Although the following morning we could have a quiet moment cruising before we arrived at the small Russian village of Goritsy. Here there is the famous Russian Orthodox monastery which is situated a bus trip away at Kirrillov. Two monks founded the monastery in 1397. The Virgin Mary appeared to them and instructed them to build a monastery by the White Lake. It’s a huge complex of buildings. Although it became a museum later, in 1988 a small community of Monks came back to live there. Apparently the water in the lake had some curative therapy if you bathed in it. Regained youth? Not even the ducks would take the plunge This was a heart rending sight. In the region of Tver a number of villages were submerged as the reservoir was filled. The population was resettled, and some of the