Baltic Photo Gallery - Weeks 19~21

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1 - Departing Tallinn by ferry across
   Gulf of Finland to Helsinki
2 - Rastila station on Helsinki Metro
 for journey into city
3 - Red granite façade of
Helsinki Central Station
4 - Art nouveau Lantern Bearers
 
statues on Helsinki Central Station

5 - Mannerheim Statue against
  backdrop of Parliament Building
6 - The Finnish Parliament building,
 the Eduskunta
7 - Finlandia concert hall designed
by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto
8 - Engel's starkly white Lutheran
Cathedral towering over Senate Square

 
9 - Senate Square with Engel's
 Government Palace
10 - House of Estates, 19th century
   meeting hall of Diet of Estates
11 - Presidential Palace over-
 topped by Lutheran Cathedral
12 - Helsinki's Russian Orthodox
    Uspenski Cathedral

 
13 - Icon-bedecked iconostasis
   at Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral
14 - Vanha Kauppahalli
 (Old Market Hall)
15 - Late afternoon stroll along
 Esplanadi boulevard-gardens
16 - Three Smiths statue beside Vanha
 Ylioppilastalo (Old Students' House)

 
17 - Lingonberry
   (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
18 - Russian border-crossing
 at Vaalimaa
19 - Vaalimaa Camping looking out
 over reed-lined Gulf of Finland inlet
20 - Hamina town hall at centre of
  town's octagon of radiating streets

 
21 - Hamina's Reserve Officer
   Training School
22 - Hamina war cemetery from
 Winter and Continuation Wars
23 - Hamina Camping overlooking a
reed lined inlet of Gulf of Finland
24 - Early morning hazy sun over Gulf of
 Finland shore-line at Hamina Camping

 
25 - Ferry from Pargas to Nagu-
  Nauvo down Turku Archipelago
26 - Crossing by chain-ferry from
Björkö to outermost island of Mossala
27 - Saariston Lomskeskus' parkland
 setting on island of Mossala
28 - Kittuis Camping overlooking
    Houtskär ferry dock and sound

 
29 - Galtby ferry arriving at Houtskär
     ferry-dock by Kittuis Camping
30 - Final barbecue of trip on a
 drizzly evening at Kittuis Camping
31 - Departing Galtby by ferry
 for Kökar in Åland Islands
32 - Challenging route-finding
 over Kökar's rocky terrain

 
33 - Camping on Kökar's granite
  bed-rock at Saltvik Camping
34 - Dawning sun and early morning
 mist at Sandvik Camping on Kökar
35 - Onward ferry to Ålands Main
     Island docking at Kökar
36 - Sun sparkling on wake as ferry
   curves away from Kökar quay

 
37 - Lumparland's wooden Church
    of Sankt Andreas
38 - Post-windmill in Autumn
sunshine at Jan Karlsgården skansen
39 - Trumpet-shaped fruiting heads
 and red spore bodies on lichen
40 - Dawn over Sandö Sound from our
 camp spot at Sandösunds Camping

 
41 - Lunch among the Bilberries on
 outcrops of Ångsbergen plateau
42 - A relaxing day in camp by the
  sound-side at Sandösund Camping
43 - Prästö Bridge against backdrop of
 Bomarsund's surviving fortress walls
44 - Surviving section of Notvik
   Tower with cannon embrasures

 
45 - Bare granite outcrops with
 stunted pines above Notvik inlet
46 - Male Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
   perched on tip of pine tree
47 - Söderhagen Camping set on a
forested hillock above Torpfjärden
48 - Post-windmill, mail boxes and
  bus stop at Torp hamlet in Eckerö

 
49 - Sun sparkling over sea at
 Herröskatan
50 - Devolved Ålands Parliament
     building, the Lagtinget
51 - Pictorial history of Åland
  at Lagtinget
52 - Plenary session of Lagtinget
 with Minister addressing Parliament

 
53 - Member of Lagtinget raising
  a question to the Minister
54 - Sunset over pine-fringed Baltic
shore-line at Kaffetorpets Camping
55 - Driving over the Kalmar Sound
  Bridge to Baltic island of Öland
56 - Öland's NE Trollskogen shore-line
 looking out across sullen grey Baltic

 
57 - Fishing boats moored at quay
    of Gräsgårds Fiskehamn
58 - Grey and Harbour Seals basking
 on rocks at Ottenby
59 - Viking period stone ship-setting
   at Gettlinge grave-field
60 - 1661 memorial to Lavesen family
  at Holy Trinity Church Kristianstad

 
61 - Enjoying Salt-lakrits ice cream
 on Helge å waterfront at Åhus
62 - Hagestad wild beach
 on Southern Sweden's Skåne coast
63 - Ales Stenar cliff-top Iron Age
 stone ship-setting monument
64 - Departing Sweden on ferry from
 Trelleborg to Rostock, North Germany
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