Murmansk: Dinner Time

Our private tour wrapped up with dinner @ Tsarskaya Okhota, a restaurant whose name translates as “the Czar’s Hunting Lodge.” The decor certainly fit the name!

The restaurant was hopping — mostly with other private tour groups. With everyone arriving at about the same time, service was adversely impacted. Luckily, we were amongst the first to arrive and had few problems with the service of our three-course meal. It also helped that we’d pre-ordered our dinner choices — beef-based or fish-based — well ahead of time.

We were back at the port by 8:00p. Although we would be remaining in Russian waters for the next few days, we still had to go through immigration before embarking the ship. Bureaucracy at its best!

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