Russia and the Baltic States
 Together with my sister, Glenda and her son, Skye we will spend 5 days in St Petersburg. Then Glenda and I will be following in the footsteps of our grandparents, visiting the places they came from in Latvia and Lithuania. We end our trip by visiting Tallinn in Estonia.
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Our latest 5 diary entries
| 14th Jul 2012 - 15th Jul 2012 | ||||
| Tallinn, Estonia | ||||
| Tallinn, the charming capital of Estonia is the final stop on our Baltic tour. It is reputed to be the best preserved medieval town in Northern Europe. Due to a flight cancellation, we had to make a very early s... | ||||
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| 12th Jul 2012 - 13th Jul 2012 | ||||
| Two days in Vilnius | ||||
| Our first day in Vilnius was spent mostly touring through the Old Town, the second wandering through the ghetto area and visiting museums of mostly Jewish interest. We chose to stay in the Domus Maria on the e... | ||||
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| 11th Jul 2012 | ||||
| From Šiauliai to Tytuvėnai - concluding the footsteps of our ancestors | ||||
| In the morning we went back into Šiauliai, our maternal grandmother’s home town, to see the Chaim Frankel Villa, which is today a museum about life in the town. At the side of the villa are the rema... | ||||
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| 10th Jul 2012 | ||||
| From Riga to Šiauliai (Shavli) - continuing in the footsteps of our ancestors | ||||
| We left Riga and drove to the sites in the forests on the outskirts of the city where thousands of Jews were murdered by the Nazis and local accomplices. In Biekerniek forest, Jews not only from Latvia, but also ... | ||||
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| 9th Jul 2012 | ||||
| In the footsteps of our ancestors: Riga | ||||
| Riga is the city that our paternal grandfather originated from. Although he left it sometime before 1900 to settle in South Africa, he did return there with his family to pay a visit in 1912. After an excellent b... | ||||
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