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pixoplanet · 1 year

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It's November 13th, 💃🏿 the final day of the Interfolk Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Today’s events will showcase over 70 folk song and dance ensembles from all regions of Russia and many nations all over the globe, performing in front of a large audience in the cultural capital of Russia. The festival's mission is to educate, entertain, and facilitate mutual understanding and dialog between ethnic, cultural, religious, and language communities.

The Interfolk Festival helps communities from all over the world preserve and promote their cultural and national identity through expression of their music, dances, and traditions. Through the years, the festival has welcomed participants from Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, and more. Of course, Ukraine hasn’t participated since 2013.

The festival also hosts an international competition – the Grand Prix Interfolk. Vocal groups and instrumental ensembles perform folk music; dance troupes perform traditional folk dances; historical theater groups reenact traditional rituals; and much more.

If you attend the festival, in addition to watching the performances, you can participate in games, parties, excursions, workshops, discussions, and lectures. Please join in. Admission to everything is free. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

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padalinskie · 2 years

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NCL Prima Cruise Ship

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#baltic cruise #ncl new cruise ship #ncl prima #norwegian prima

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kaarijaisbest · 1 month

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Sweet Jeresus! 💚🔥 30.12.2023 Baltic Princess

#käärijä #jere pöyhönen #paidaton riehuja #kaarija #kaarijaisbest #baltic princess #käärijä cruise #huhhahhei #jeresus

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rbf451 · 1 year

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At Baltic Princess cruise 27.- 28.12.2022

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#t-t-thighs 🥴#blind channel #tommi lalli #baltic princess cruise 27.-28.12.2022 #december shows 2022

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awesome-casuallyfamouscollector · 1 year

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MS Rotterdam, a Pinnacle-class cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL) in Riga, Latvia, May 11, 2023. Photo by D.P.

#Latvia #Riga #street photography #daily life #free world #MS Rotterdam #cruise ship #Baltic Sea #tourism #business #russian defeat #original photography on tumblr #Baltic States #Northern Europe #Holland America Line

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legacysat · 2 years

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Island Princess is a Coral-class cruise ship for the Princess Cruises. Latvia, Riga, 4 July 2022

#island princess #riga 2022 #2022 #latvia #latvija #riga #cruise ship #daugava #baltic sea

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simplicius-simplicissimus · 5 months

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Cruises - a compromise when traveling (Kreuzfahrten - ein Kompromiss beim Reisen)

My wife has suffered from multiple sclerosis (MS) for over 15 years. Thanks to good medication management, a mindful lifestyle, a lot of sports and a fantastic physiotherapist, she was able to not only stabilize the course of the disease, but even improve it. She was also lucky that her illness didn't take the serious course it usually does for others. However, this illness still affects the way we travel. You have to plan trips with lots of opportunities for breaks. Traveling by ship is ideal: you are taken from A to B while sleeping - quite stress-free. Over the years we have also gone through a learning process in which the general boundaries have been constantly expanded. We now know that a 2-weeks, well-planned tour will push her body to the limit of stress, but she can definitely „survive“ such a trip.

Our first cruise was deliberately on a smaller ship because we are not big fans of crowds. We didn't want any rigid etiquette when it came to dining, but wanted to take a more „relaxed approach“ - so we chose an organizer who offered buffet restaurants on the ship. Most cruise lines celebrate abundance when it comes to food. An Asian service worker once shouted the following to the crowd streaming in as the restaurant opened: “Attack!” One wonders what kind of human image these people take with them from us when they return to their home countries. Wherever large crowds gather, the different patterns of human behavior can be observed quite well. This is often not particularly flattering for our species when egoism and vanity come to the fore. We have now gone on 5 cruises and are realizing more and more that this way of traveling is not necessarily the right thing for us. It‘s over for now.

Meine Frau ist seit über 15 Jahren an Multipler Sklerose (MS) erkrankt. Aufgrund guter medikamentöser Einstellung, eines achtsamen Lebensstils, viel Sport und eines fantastischen Physiotherapeuten gelang es ihr, nicht nur den Verlauf der Krankheit zu stabilisieren, sondern sogar zu verbessern. Dabei hatte sie auch Glück, dass die Krankheit bei ihr nicht den gravierenden Verlauf nimmt, wie bei manchem anderen. Diese Krankheit beeinflusst trotzdem die Art und Weise unserer Reisen. Man muss Reisen mit viel Möglichkeiten der Pausen planen. Dabei ist das Reisen mit dem Schiff ideal: man wird schlafend von A nach B gebracht - recht stressfrei. Wir haben über die Jahre dabei auch einen Lernprozess durchlaufen, bei dem vermeintliche Grenzen stetig erweitert wurden. Inzwischen wissen wir, dass eine 2wöchige, durchgeplante Rundreise ihren Körper zwar an die Stressgrenze bringt, aber sie eine solche Reise durchaus „durchstehen“ kann.

Unsere erste Kreuzfahrt war bewusst mit einem kleineren Schiff, weil wir keine grossen Freunde von Menschenmassen sind. Wir wollten auch keine steife Etikette beim Essen, sondern eher „ungezwungener“ unterwegs sein - so fiel die Wahl auf einem entsprechenden Veranstalter, der Büffet-Restaurants auf dem Schiff anbietet. Die meisten Kreuzfahrt-Unternehmen zelebrieren beim Essen den Überfluss. Eine asiatische Service-Kraft hat einmal beim Öffnen des Restaurants der reinströmenden Menschenmasse folgendes zugerufen: „Attacke!“ Man fragt sich dabei schon, mit welchem Menschenbild von uns diese Leute in ihre Heimatländer zurückkehren. Überall wo grosse Menschenmassen zusammenkommen, kann man die unterschiedlichen Muster menschlichen Verhaltens recht gut beobachten. Oft ist das nicht gerade schmeichelhaft für unsere Spezies, wenn Egoismen und Eitelkeiten zum Vorschein kommen. Wir haben nun 5 Kreuzfahrten gemacht und stellten dabei immer mehr fest, dass diese Art des Reisen nicht unbedingt das Richtige für uns ist. Jetzt ist erst einmal damit Schluss.

-Simplicius Simplicissimus

Itineraries (Reisrouten):

Cruise 1 - Norway: Kiel - Bergen - Sognefjord (Flam/Laerdal) - Stavanger - Oslo - Kiel

Cruise 2 - Baltic Sea: Warnemunde - Tallinn - St. Petersburg - Helsinki - Stockholm - Warnemunde

Cruise 3 - Canada: Montreal - Quebec - Saguenay - Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown) - Nova Scotia (Fort Louisbourg/Halifax) - Newfoundland (St. John‘s) - Havre St. Pierre - Montreal

Cruise 4 - Ionian/Aegean Sea: Corfu - Crete - Santorini - Kusadasi (Ephesus) - Athens - Corfu

Cruise 5 - Mediterranean Islands: Mallorca - Corsica (Ajaccio) - Civitavecchia/Rome - Naples/Capri - Sicily (Messina/Aetna) - Malta (Valetta) - Sicily (Palermo/Cefalu) - Sardinia (Cagliari) - Ibiza - Mallorca

#traveling #reisen #norway #baltic sea #canada #ionic sea #aegean sea #mediterranean sea #norwegen #ostsee #kanada #ionisches meer #ägäisches meer #mittelmeer #cruise #cruises #kreuzfahrt #kreuzfahrten #simplicius simplicissimus

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anakaterina · 5 months

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#baltic sea #cruise ship #cafe

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rabbitcruiser · 2 years

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National Maritime Day

Learn about the contributions of maritime workers such as transporters, and the regulations, safety rules, and security that goes into those crucial jobs.

Some people might have begun to notice a theme about May and its holidays–and that is that many of them are centered on getting back out and into the world. With the warming sun and halting rains, should anyone be the least bit surprised?

Even so, while National Maritime Day is not necessarily about the ocean at large, it is more about those men and women who spend their lives working on and around it. This day specifically focuses on the safety, security, and all the little elements that make up the lives of those on the sea, as well as a little bit of remembrance for how much people have to thank them for.

History of National Maritime Day

A great way to start with this day is by understanding exactly what maritime is. To begin with, maritime transport and work has been important since the human race first put something that floats in the water and decided to use it to get somewhere or do something.

National Maritime Day commemorates the sea, the people of the sea, and the incredible effect it has had on the lives and well-being of humankind. Just to start with the most basic point about it, sea trade has been the largest carrier of cargo in the history of the world. In fact, even the land-bound parts of the Silk Road didn’t see as much cargo and trade-goods moving along it as the oceans and seas have.

Of course, when it comes to the sea, the wind is an ever-present companion, the water buoyant and the siren-call of days at sea are strong in everyone nearby. But the one thing that may be a bit of a weakness for water-transport is the fact that items need to be delivered in a timely manner. While the system is and always has been fairly reliable, it certainly is not fast, at least not by today’s modern standards.

So for those who know someone who has worked in the sea trade or still does, National Maritime Day is the perfect day to take a moment to thank them for all they have done, and let them tell stories about their time on the salty black seas.

National Maritime Day Timeline

1300 BC Seafaring boats are used

The oldest discovered hulled boat that is for seafaring dates back to the Late Bronze Age. Evidence has been in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey.

200 BC Maritime Silk Road begins

Before trade on the open seas was common, the Maritime Silk Road used many back routes and channels to make trade possible between Asia, Africa and Europe.

1492 Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage

This maritime trip into the new world is the first crossing of the Atlantic that does not use Arctic routes.

1912 The Titanic sinks

This most infamous of luxury cruise ships sinks on her maiden voyage between Southampton, England and New York City, USA.

1955 USS Nautilus is launched

The world’s first nuclear powered sailing vessel, named after the fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

How to Celebrate National Maritime Day

Make a Visit to the Coast

One perfect way to celebrate and honor this day is to get out to the oceans or seas by gaining access through the bays and the ports. Take a look at the ships coming and going, watch the boats going through the harbor, and perhaps even get up close to take a tour of one, if possible!

Take the time to go out and marvel at the ships and the huge dinosaur like cranes that hulk over the docks transporting cargo containers from shore to ship and ship to shore as they help make the world’s economy turn.

Check Out a Maritime Museum

While visiting a harbor or port, check to see if there is a Maritime museum nearby that can be easily accessed. These museums can offer a wealth of information that allows for learning about the sea and maritime issues. See what has been wrought and how things have changed over the years.

Learn about the regulations that people and boats have to follow and how maritime safety has been a constant and evolving concern–and still remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

Some of the world’s most popular Maritime museums include:

National Maritime Museum, London, United Kingdom. Also called the Greenwich Maritime Museum, this one has been open since the 1930s.

Sydney Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia. This fairly modern museum has been working for more than 20 years.

San Diego Maritime Museum, California, USA. In addition to visiting, people can participate in recreational and educational courses throughout the year.

Kobe Maritime Museum, Kobe, Japan. Built on one of Japan’s most important ports, this museum integrates Japanese maritime history with the influence of modern technology.

Read Some Books About Sea Life

National Maritime Day is the perfect time to get started on learning more about the lives of sailors and people of the sea. Traditionally, in the past the people living on the sea were mostly men, although some ships did allow women on board (or, in some cases, they snuck on board dressed as boys).

Try reading some of these fictional stories of the men (and a few women) who have had sea-faring adventures:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. This classic piece of fiction was published in London in 1851 and hails the famous first line “Call me Ishmael”, one of the most recognizable lines in classic Western literature.

Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors’ Wives by David Cordingly. Chronicling the various numbers of women who went to sea, this non-fiction historical narrative is surprising and delightful.

The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Telling the battle of a Cuban fisherman against a marlin, this fictional short story was published in the US in 1952 and is well loved as it echoes the struggles of the human condition.

Shōgun by James Clavell. The first of novels in this series, Shōgun is based on actual events encountered by and English Sailor whose ship was blown ashore in Japan around 1600, giving a unique Western perspective on life in the Orient at the time.

National Maritime Day isn’t a day for being inside, it’s a day for going out and exploring this important part of the world’s past, present, and future. National Maritime Day – To The Docks!

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malbecmusings · 4 months

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The Baltic 68 Café Racer sisters, Open Season and Pink Gin Verde cruising in Soller.

#baltic yachts #sailing #let's GO

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cuteoutlaw · 4 months

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Käärijä at Silja Baltic Princess -cruise | 30. December 2023 | Photos by me (instagram)

#My photos #Please don't repost #käärijä #Jukka sorsa #Kaarija #Käärijä crew #Häärijä

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ammg-old2 · 1 year

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Imagine that someone—perhaps a man from Florida, or maybe even a governor of Florida—criticized American support for Ukraine. Imagine that this person dismissed the war between Russia and Ukraine as a purely local matter, of no broader significance. Imagine that this person even told a far-right television personality that “while the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.” How would a Ukrainian respond? More to the point, how would the leader of Ukraine respond?

As it happens, an opportunity to ask that hypothetical question recently availed itself. The chair of the board of directors of The Atlantic, Laurene Powell Jobs; The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg; and I interviewed President Volodymyr Zelensky several days ago in the presidential palace in Kyiv. In the course of an hour-long conversation, Goldberg asked Zelensky what he would say to someone, perhaps a governor of Florida, who wonders why Americans should help Ukraine.

Zelensky, answering in English, told us that he would respond pragmatically. He didn’t want to appeal to the hearts of Americans, in other words, but to their heads. Were Americans to cut off Ukraine from ammunition and weapons, after all, there would be clear consequences in the real world, first for Ukraine’s neighbors but then for others:

If we will not have enough weapons, that means we will be weak. If we will be weak, they will occupy us. If they occupy us, they will be on the borders of Moldova and they will occupy Moldova. When they have occupied Moldova, they will [travel through] Belarus and they will occupy Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. That’s three Baltic countries which are members of NATO. They will occupy them. Of course, [the Balts] are brave people, and they will fight. But they are small. And they don’t have nuclear weapons. So they will be attacked by Russians because that is the policy of Russia, to take back all the countries which have been previously part of the Soviet Union.

And after that, if there were still no further response? Then, he explained, the struggle would continue:

When they will occupy NATO countries, and also be on the borders of Poland and maybe fight with Poland, the question is: Will you send all your soldiers with weapons, all your pilots, all your ships? Will you send tanks and armored vehicles with your young people? Will you do it? Because if you will not do it, you will have no NATO.

At that point, he said, Americans will face a different choice: not politicians deciding whether “to give weapons or not to give weapons” to Ukrainians, but instead, “fathers and mothers” deciding whether to send their children to fight to keep a large part of the planet, filled with America’s allies and most important trading partners, from Russian occupation.

But there would be other consequences too. One of the most horrifying weapons that Russia has used against Ukraine is the Iranian-manufactured Shahed drone, which has no purpose other than to kill civilians. After these drones are used to subdue Ukraine, Zelensky asked, how long would it be before they are used against Israel? If Russia can attack a smaller neighbor with impunity, regimes such as Iran’s are sure to take note. So then the question arises again: “When they will try to occupy Israel, will the United States help Israel? That is the question. Very pragmatic.”

Finally, Zelensky posed a third question. During the war, Ukraine has been attacked by rockets, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles—“not hundreds, but thousands”:

So what will you do when Russia will use rockets to attack your allies, to [attack] civilian people? And what will you do when Russia, after that, if they do not see [opposition] from big countries like the United States? What will you do if they will use rockets on your territory?

And this was his answer: Help us fight them here, help us defeat them here, and you won’t have to fight them anywhere else. Help us preserve some kind of open, normal society, using our soldiers and not your soldiers. That will help you preserve your open, normal society, and that of others too. Help Ukraine fight Russia now so that no one else has to fight Russia later, and so that harder and more painful choices don’t have to be made down the line.

“It’s about nature. It’s about life,” he said. “That’s it.”

#current events #warfare #politics #russian politics #american politics #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #russia #ukraine #usa #volodymyr zelenskyy #ron desantis #nato

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kaarijaisbest · 2 months

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Everybody's missing Käärijä and gigs so why not share some more pics from Baltic Princess. 🫶🏻💚