I’ve started on album two of our Baltic Cruise adventure and this one will be all Russia. We did so much over the two days there that it’s going to fill a whole album!
First off is the intro page. The photo is of me standing by the River Neva. It was such a glorious day and I loved our tour so much. I’m getting all nostalgic just looking at it.
I had a couple of banknotes left so as they were only worth a couple of pounds, I included them on the layout.
I had a lot to say on the next layout. I wanted to describe the immigration process and why we were so early. I used a photo of our tour bus with it. I really want to get as many details of not just what we saw and did, but how we felt. I want to be able to look back on these albums in future years and be transported back to our brilliant holiday. 
The next two layouts are about our first stop in St. Petersburg. We had ten minutes to see the Sphinx by the Neva River. The first layout has journalling about travelling to the river and what we did there. 
The second one has details of the Sphinx. I lifted the text straight from the official St. Petersburg website and used a shaped journalling box to signify that it’s factual rather than descriptive. I’ll probably use the same format through the whole album. 
Can you believe those things are three and a half thousand years old?!
The next three layouts are at our second stop of the day. It’s the Neva River again, and this time it’s to see the Rostral columns.
First the obligatory tourist photo with Stephen posing with a column. 
Next is one with a bit of info about the columns. 
And finally one showing the view from that area. We could see a couple of the places on our itinerary, which was quite exciting. 
A slight obsession with books 