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As we were driving around the Bay of Kotor the other day, we entered this village: Remember, you need to roll that R.
A mission team from Oak Hills church in San Antonio arrived yesterday. I met them at the airport and helped shuttle luggage to camp where they will minister for the next two weeks. This team has been coming for many years. It’s good to see old friends.
Olga and Valerie were coloring together at dacha. The light was good and the subject superb. I love my family.
Here is the view looking over the Adriatic as we drove down the coast from the airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia to Zeta, Montenegro. What a wonderful world. Olga’s brother-in-law Zhelyan and his mother, Slavitsa, met me at the airport and got me safely home. Alla (Olga’s sister) and her son Andrei were here to welcome me. [...]
I drove from Estonia into Russia this morning, crossing the border at 7am. It’s cold here now — about -20C (-4F) — and that makes everything beautifully frosty. On the road from Narva to St. Petersburg:
This is a pretty standard view of our city streets these days – One of my joys in being part of an international family is introducing Olga (and now Valerie) to my home culture; today (sleepy) Valerie had her first bacon and egg breakfast. This is probably the first time she’s eaten bacon, and she [...]
Tallinn’s Town Hall on the main square in the old city. Town Hall (Tallinna raekoda) is over 600 years old (c.1402) and retains its original form. It is the only gothic style town hall in Northern Europe.
Tavrichesky Palace and Gardens, St. Petersburg Russia. Catherine the Great and her lover/general Grigory Potemkin walked these very paths. The palace was built in the 1780s; it later was the seat the first Russian Parliament (c. 1906), and this is where the Bolsheviks took power. This park is across the street from our flat; I [...]
Moonrise over Pyhäjärvi. We’re having beautiful weather here at Koppero.
This morning I took the ferry from Tallinn, Estonia to Finland. Here’s the view of the Gulf of Finland just just as the Helsinki archipelago is coming into view.
