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Baltics trip
Day 12 - 27th May - Tallinn, Kadrioru (Kadriorg) Art Museum; Estonia (Part 1)
HWMNBN kept using the Internet to read my blog, which was bizarre and irritating, given that I was hardly updating it (and he could've asked me what I wrote if I did).
Building facades
Street and alley
City Walls
Yet another bizarre Baltic sight (a self-propelled wooden cart). I assume this was an attempt to act cute.
Towers of city walls
Near the towers, we saw our third McDonalds (the first was in Vilnius, the second Riga).
Lay's Chips: Bacon, Fromage, Cheese (what's the difference?!), Dill and Sour Cream, Sour Cream and Herbs, Sour Cream. I love how there subtle variations.
Cock luggage
We headed to the Kadriorg palace (built by Tsar Peter I) by tram.
"Ware squirrels"
Tree-lined boulevard
Pond
Kadriorg Palace (Art Museum)
Noah's Ark - but where's Noah?! (no, this was not part of the permanent collection, but some kids' art thing)
Great Hall
Jan van Kessel: Noah boarding the ship
I don't see the ship either
Circle of Bosch. Expulsion of traders from the temple. Early 17th century.
Janneck. Jupiter and Juno.
Angelica Kauffmann. Beauty directed by prudence rejects with scorn the solicitations of folly. 1770s
Teapot
Nike
Russian Fan, ~1900.
Vasili Nikiforovich Bovin. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks, 19th c. copy
Italian Woman, 1st half of 19th c.
Peter I
Unknown Master after Fyodor Rokotov. Empress Catherine II (the Great)
