Today is Sunday 12th and it's a rest day, with nothing planned.
We are maintaining our record as "sun gods" - the day was cloudless and warm. We took a stroll in the morning. We looked in on two churches - but were full, with everybody standing. At one, street sellers sold bunches of flowers or green leaves to churchgoers who carried them into the church, but from our brief look inside, it wasn,t clear what the purpose was.
Further on we found a crowd at the 41-45 War Memorial in Nakimova Square. Russian flags were flying and there were ranks of sailors and an honour guard of marines, along with a military band. We suspect that the celebration was for Russia Day. In a brief ceremony, various anthems were played, the marines snapped to attention, a group of assembled dignitataries advanded to the memorial carrying flowers and then the marines and the banded smartly marched off. Everybody then dispersed.
We called in on the Black Sea Fleet Museum. Russian-only captions made this difficult, be we got some sense of the fleet history that was being being described. There were many Russian sailors about - there seemed to be some sort of concert or assembly near the Fleet Museum, presumably for Russia Day.
Sunday is clearly the day for family strolling in spite of the rising heat and humidity. We found a flea market and an art market - both of similar quality.
Lunch was Japanese and wasn't bad, particularly if you prefer very lukewarm miso. Of course, it was the weekend, so it wasn't possible to put sushi nto a square bento box. Fortunately, it was possible to put it into a round container.
We had a rest for a while and then headed out for a harbour tour in the somewhat cooler late afternoon. We spent 45 minutes in a small boat cruising the harbour, mainly seeing the dark grey ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the lighter grey Ukrainain Navy ships.
Our hotel has a restaurant with a large marble balcony overlooking part of the harbour. We had dinner there, which gave us the opportunity to sample a local Inkerman dry red, which wasn't bad.
We are maintaining our record as "sun gods" - the day was cloudless and warm. We took a stroll in the morning. We looked in on two churches - but were full, with everybody standing. At one, street sellers sold bunches of flowers or green leaves to churchgoers who carried them into the church, but from our brief look inside, it wasn,t clear what the purpose was.
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| Sailors & marines at the war memorial |
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| Everyone strolls in the park on Sunday morning |
Sunday is clearly the day for family strolling in spite of the rising heat and humidity. We found a flea market and an art market - both of similar quality.
Lunch was Japanese and wasn't bad, particularly if you prefer very lukewarm miso. Of course, it was the weekend, so it wasn't possible to put sushi nto a square bento box. Fortunately, it was possible to put it into a round container.
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| Cruiser Moskova - Russian flagship |
Our hotel has a restaurant with a large marble balcony overlooking part of the harbour. We had dinner there, which gave us the opportunity to sample a local Inkerman dry red, which wasn't bad.
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