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Fine dining
in La Saleletta
Bruce turned a drizzly sailing into a
fascinating exploration of locks, military
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is one of the ports of call on Silver Wind’s Baltic itineraries history and European trading.
During sea days, team trivia, bridge, French
head. Each course from Relais & Chateaux cruisers without a visa could go ashore and lessons, golf putting and a bridge tour enter-
Master chef Jacques Thorel’s menu was those with visas could only gain entry to tained guests. Evening entertainment was
paired with wines from a specific country. some palaces if they were in a group. fairly lacklustre apart from violin virtuoso
Slow-roasted pear stuffed with gorgonzola My excursion highlights were a perform- Beverley, Silversea’s answer to Vanessa Mae.
and Gianduja chocolate fondue with white ance of Swan Lake at the beautiful Palace But that was a small quibble. The Baltic
truffle ice cream were fitting finales to our Theatre, with a talk afterwards by prima and luxury cruising clearly go hand in hand.
Italian meal. ballerina Ana Alexandrova, and tours of
Most guests worked off calories with a Catherine’s and Pavlovsk palaces in leafy
stroll around the deck or in the high-tech Pushkin. A musical evening at the Hermitage
gym or twice-daily exercise sessions. For Museum also received rave reviews.
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spa, observation lounge, eight suites and tair Bruce’s four inspirational lectures on the
the Baltic offering seven, 10 and 14-day voyages.
refurbished interiors. areas we visited. Navigating us through the
Prices start from £2,756 for a Stockholm to Copenhagen
Excursions in St Petersburg were some- Kiel canal’s history from the ship’s bridge,
cruise visiting Helsinki, St Petersburg and Tallinn.
thing of a catch-22. It was the only way that this descendant of Scotland’s Robert the
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