After a week of island hopping along the Finnish coast, we arrived at the Russian custom service in St. Petersburg. It was a strange get together in our ship saloon when the customs entered our ‘territory.’ It suddenly made me aware of the state we were in. The men all wearing uniforms and shiny [...]

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Probably the main impression from this trip is the reminiscene of so called ‘stroy otriadu’ (*building team), existed during the soviet time and represented one of the most rememberable type of spending time for soviet students and youth. Well-known by the parents’ retellings, not by own experience this segment of soviet mythology still presents in [...]

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You can basically feel the tension on board when the wind is getting stronger the waves become meaner and the Lovis turns from a well behaving holiday-cruiser to a real all-weather sailing vessel. 70 tons of railwaytracks and concrete under the floor will keep our floating home upstraight no matter what kind of stomachtwisting storm [...]

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Collected wisdoms between Riga and Narva-Jõesuu

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Friday morning at the lovis. The day seemed to be nice, lovely breakfast: fresh bread, out of the oven this morning, scrumble eggs and tasty warm chocolate. Everything looks perfect, exept the missing newspaper…. o no is it rain again? During the night the rain falls like a neverending shower. Wet clothes still reminding what [...]

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A big thanks to all the people involved in the project for the chance to stir up my mind with thoughts about the Baltic Sea and its problems and our individual responsibility for it.
Thanks also to the LOVIS team for the kind attitude on board of the ship, where I learned many new things including [...]

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