Geoff Brock & Bruce Gamble
         
     

Day 15: Volga-Don Canal

  
 
 

Monday, 26th October 1998

 
Now we had another day of sailing, this time along the Volga-Don Canal, with over a dozen locks taking us up from the below-sea-level Caspian to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea beyond.
 
The entrance to the canal is marked by a huge triumphal arch and an even bigger statue of Lenin; he peered down on us with contempt as we passed.
 
After dinner that evening, it was performance time for the passengers!
 
 
 
Even Geoff was persuaded to participate!
Michael, who we met again, by coincidence,
five years later on our Danube Cruise!
   
 
 
©Geoff Brock and Bruce Gamble