After Janmastami I had a direct flight from Copenhagen/Denmark to Tallinn/Estonia with Air Baltic - the first flight I had dared to book after the Corona crisis had started. And four days before the scheduled journey the flight was canceled due to lack of passengers. I re-booked with Finnair via Helsinki, which fortunately operated. The flight from Helsinki to Tallinn had only six passengers! We were requested to take our seats in the very back - to balance out the luggage, which was in the compartment towards the front of the plane....
After a comfortable 8-hour train journey I arrived in Copenhagen on the afternoon of the 6th of August. This was my first visit to the Copenhagen temple - a nice Danish house in a quiet suburb of Copenhagen.
On the 31st of July I travelled by train from Simhachalam to Bad Oeyenhausen in Germany - around a 7 hour's journey from the South Eastern to the North Western part of the country. A Russian grihastha couple had purchased a hotel - outside of the city, on a hill and surrounded by forest. They have transformed it into a temple, and at the same time they also run it as a hotel business. It offers a great facility for programs and retreats and has become Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu's base in Germany for the Russian preaching. He is a prominent diksa guru in Russia and Ukraine and also has Russian disciples in Germany and other parts of Europe.
After my visit at Goloka Dham I spent three days with my 90-year old mother in her nice village in the South of Germany. Now, during the second half of July, the weather was beautiful and sunny
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