Our desitination in summer 2005 is the Kaliningrad Region with its two sailing ports: Kaliningrad, in former German times named Königsberg, and the spa Pionerski, the former Neukuhren. You can travel broader on the Baltic Sea but you won't find a region which seems more strange to an European from the EC: Until some years ago the entire Russian exclave was a prohibited military zone. And still an almighty bureaucracy is ruling the country - and visitors need a visa.