A hop and a skip across the Baltic Sea

16th February.
Thursday.
1730

Baltic Airlines, Flight 652, Boeing 737 descending over the Baltic Sea approaching Riga International, Latvia.

What an unusual and strange landscape.

It's dusk and not entirely clear but I see these long and straight boulevards.

Except, this is not a city. There are no lights or buildings and there are no cars driving along these boulevards.

They are definitely man made and as I look along one of them I see others from different points converging together as if at some distant Arc De Triomphe.

Hang on. These are not boulevards. Canals perhaps, cut into the landscape. But wait...

What's that?

That... that is a... a reflection. It's a huge ship. Oh, I see.. Shit! That's an icebreaker and these boulevards are the huge cracks it's cut into the frozen sea.

Wow.

Well, that's a first.