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20th International Surgical Pathology Symposium

List of Tours

May 6-9, 2014

Mayo Medical Laboratories

In conjunction with the 20th International Surgical Pathology Symposium, eleven guided tours have been arranged for our attendees before, during and after this year’s conference. The tour arrangements and expenses are in addition to the conference registration.

Tours include:

Pre-conference Helsinki – World Design Capital Tour

Pre-conference Lahemaa National Park and Manor Houses

Highlights of Tallinn

Walking Tour of Tallinn Old Town

Royal and Modern Tallinn

The Soviet Legacy Tour

Seaside Stories of Tallinn

Cruise on Kajsamoor Schooner on Tallinn Bay

Rocca al Mare Open Air Museum

Post-conference Tour to St. Petersburg

Post-conference Bicycle Trip Estonia 2014

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Pre-conferemce Helsinki – World Design Capital Tour

Duration: 09:30 – 18:30Minimum number of people: 35 paxMaximum number of people: 70 paxPrice per person: 184 EURPrice includes: Transfer to the port of Tallinn and back; return ferry tickets; bus transfer during the day in Helsinki; guide service; lunch in a local restaurant (incl coffee/tea, water).

09:30: Arrival of TallinkSilja ferry to the West Harbour.

09:50: Start your tour including Helsinki’s highlights with an added em-phasis on Finnish Design. Your tour includes a visit to the famous “Rock Church” built into solid rock, a visit to the new Music House, and to the Senate Square with Helsinki Cathedral. The group will also stroll around the bustling Market Square and the harbour area.

12:00: Lunch will be enjoyed during the tour at a lovely local restaurant.

13:00: After lunch the tour concludes with a visit to Helsinki’s Design District where you can either walk with the guide or follow your own path. Guide can take you to meet some local designers in their shops.

15:00: Transfer back to the harbour.

16:30: Departure of TallinkSilja ferry back to Tallinn.

18:30: Arrival to Tallinn.

Monday (May 5, 2014)

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Pre-conference Lahemaa National Park and Manor Houses

Duration: 10:00 – 19:30Minimum number of people: 15 paxMaximum number of people: 45 paxPrice per person: 100 EURPrice includes: Bus transfer during the day, guide service, entrance fees, various tours, tastings lunch and dinner.

In Lahemaa (Land of Bays), located on the northern coast of Estonia, you will find stony and sandy seashores, picturesque bogs, pine forests, old-growth forests, cliff forests, alvars and rivers that have cut into the limestone cliff. You will also find many geological, historical and architec-tural monuments. There are many erratic boulders, which were brought over from Finland by continental ice. Plenty of legends and stories are connected to these boulders.

First stop will be in Viru bog (Viru raba), where participants will have a wonderful opportunity to stretch their legs after an hour’s drive from Tal-linn, and walk in a bog. The bog is a perfect example of this very typical Estonian land formation and its flora, which is quite unique elsewhere. The trail through the bog is 3.5 km long, and in the middle there is a spectacular viewing tower, where participants can enjoy the bird’s eye view of the route they have just walked through. The bus will meet the participants at the other end of the trail.

10:00: Transfer to Lahemaa National Park

11:00 – 12:15: Viru bog study trail

Monday (May 5, 2014)

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Next stop on the tour is Palmse manor, the first manor in Estonia that was restored as a complex to give a full overview of a typical Baltic manorial estate. Palmse is first mentioned in a written document in 1287, and all the buildings are under state protection as an architectural monument. The main house that we see today originates from the rebuilding ac-complished in 1782-1785. There you can see the old grandeur of the land owning nobility, the Baltic Germans, who lived in Estonia close to 700 years, and owned most of the land and peasants, despite the ruling powers. Here, the participants have a wonderful opportunity to join in an Estonian wine guessing game, where each person can guess the base of 5 local wines. By base, we mean the raw material of which the wines are made, as in Estonia no grapes are grown.

After tour of Palmse the group will discover the centuries-old Altja fisher-man village, a great example of the lifestyle that local Estonian peasants had as to opposed to the nobility. The group will enjoy a traditional lunch in the local tavern, also a typically Estonian place. After all, it was said that there were only two buildings in every community that mattered to the peasants – the church and the tavern, usually placed right next to each other for the convenience.

12:35 – 14:00: Palmse manor and local wine tasting

14:10 – 15:30: Altja fisherman village and lunch in a traditional tavern

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After lunch in Altja the participants will continue to Vihula manor, where they will be taken on a tour full of experiences.

Vihula manor, an elegant and secluded estate, which dates from the 16th century, is a perfect escape from the bustling life of the city and a su-premely comfortable and luxurious place to stay. It is the first full-service manor resort in the Baltic countries. Vihula Manor is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in Estonia, with its painstakingly renovated ensemble of historical buildings located in a picture-perfect balance with each other and with the surrounding nature.

The tour of the manor complex will give the participants an overview of the manor history, but it is also combined with additional treats. They will have several stops along the way, tasting and doing various things. For example, peppermint tea tasting, made from the herbs grown in manor’s herb garden, and tasting traditional freshly baked Estonian rye bread (or black bread) in the old watermill.

After the tour they will have a delicious dinner in the manor restaurant La Boheme, during which they can relax and think back on all the things ex-perienced that day. After the dinner the bus will take them back to Tallinn.

15:45 – 19:30: Vihula manor and tour of experiences (back in Tallinn around 19:30 o’clock)

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Highlights of TallinnDuration: 14:00 – 18:30Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 45 paxPrice per person: 41 EURPrice includes: Bus transfer, guide service, entrance to Kadriorg palace and TV tower.

This tour begins with a short scenic drive through some residential areas to Kadriorg Baroque Park and Palace Ensemble. You will visit Kadriorg Palace (entrance), built in 1723 by the Russian czar Peter the Great in honour of his empress, wife Catherine I. Kadriorg means “Catherine’s valley” in Estonian. Since the Russian revolution, the ornate palace rooms have been used as an art museum. After viewing highlights of the Euro-pean art on display, stroll through the Lower Garden back to your coach for short drive to the next stop, the Song Festival Grounds.

Lauluväljak, or Song Festival Grounds, is a historic place where the Signing Revolution took place in the late 1980s, during which Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet regime. The stage, now a symbol of independence, unity, and the power of singing, was built in 1959, but the tradition of nationwide song festivals, that take place in every 5 years, dates back to 1869. The year 2014 is the year that sees another of those magnificent celebrations, this time themed “Touched by Time. The Time to Touch”.

The tour continues with a drive through Pirita Olympic harbour where in 1980 the sailing competitions took place during the Moscow Summer Olympic Games. Next stop will be at the Tallinn TV tower (entrance) - a historic landmark with an extraordinary view of Tallinn and the Baltic Sea.

After TV tower the bus will take participants back to the city centre for an hour long walk in the medieval Old Town. Participants will have a won-derful opportunity to enjoy splendid views from the upper town, and by the end of the tour will find themselves in the heart of the town, the Town Hall Square.

Tuesday (May 6, 2014)

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Tuesday (May 6, 2014)

Walking Tour of Tallinn Old TownDuration: 14:00 – 17:00Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 35 paxPrice per person: 20 EURPrice includes: Guide service; entrance to Toomkirik, Niguliste and Pühavaimu churches.

The guide will meet the group in hotel lobby and take them on a 3-hour walking tour through the medieval Old Town of Tallinn. Vanalinn, the Old Town of Tallinn, is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe. The guide will introduce the interesting mixture of Ger-man, Scandinavian and Russian influences that have shaped the face of Tallinn over the centuries. In Upper Town, participants will walk along cobblestone streets, and enjoy a view of Toompea Castle, the house of Estonian Parliament, which was built in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 18th century. The Russian Ortho-dox Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky (entrance f.o.c.) with its interesting collection of icons has dominated Lossi Plats (Palace Square) since its construction in 1900. From here the tour continues along Tallinn’s medi-eval cobblestone streets past the Gothic Dome Church (entrance), also known as St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Enjoy a panoramic view of the towers and steeples rising above the red-tiled roofs of the Lower Town; there is a chance to browse through the local shops before walking into the Lower Town. Continue onwards along Lühike Street to the Lower Town and to St. Nicholas Church & Museum (entrance), which has on display Bernt Notke’s original painting “Dance of Death” (Danse Macabre). At Town Hall Square participants have a chance to admire the Gothic Town Hall. Completed in 1404, it is Tallinn’s oldest civic building. Further you will have a stop at Old Pharmacy house and Church of Holy Ghost (entrance), a structure that retains much of its 14th-century appearance. The tour continues to a famous Katariina Gild street with open studios and shops of artisans who daily practice their craft. You will have some time to browse in nearby shops.

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Royal and Modern TallinnDuration: 14:00 – 18:00Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 45 paxPrice per person: 52 EURPrice includes: Bus transfers, guide service, entrance to Kadriorg Pal-ace, entrance to TV tower and edge walk.

This tour will start with a short drive to Kadriorg Palace. The group will be divided to smaller groups if needed, followed by a guided tour of the pal-ace, the main White Hall and galleries with art and porcelain collections. After enjoying the luxurious palace interior, a reflection of the lifestyle of Russian czars, the participants will have a lovely walk in the equally beautiful park surrounding the palace.

Next place to visit will be contrasting the feeling of old royalty, as the participants are taken to the ultramodern Tallinn TV tower. There they can enjoy the state-of-the-art gadgets which have become the trademark of the tower, and the bravest can try a daring edge walk.

Edge walk:• Up to 4 people can walk at a time on the ledge of the TV Tower’s 22nd floor, at a height of 175 metres.• Visitors walking the ledge are attached to the attraction with safety harnesses.

One walk may last up to 30 minutes and participants will have their photos taken, which they can request to be sent to them by email free of charge.

Wednesday (May 7, 2014)

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Wednesday (May 7, 2014)

The Soviet Legacy Tour

Duration: 14:00 – 18:00Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 35 paxPrice per person: 30 EURPrice includes: Bus transfers, guide service and entrance to Patarei prison.

The tour takes you to many places in Tallinn that still remind us of the Soviet past. These places include examples of Soviet architecture, land-marks and monuments, but equally important are the memories and sto-ries about how it felt to live in the Soviet Estonia, the human aspect. The tour guarantees much laughter, but also some sadness over the darkest moments in the life of a small nation. The bus will take participants to the Olympic Yacht.

Harbour that was built for the 1980s Summer Olympic Games held in Moscow. Tallinn had the honour of hosting the sailing competitions of those games. Next stop will be in the TV tower, opened the same year, 1980. This was at the time one of the most impressive and remarkable buildings in the Soviet Union. The journey continues through Lasnamäe suburb, built during the Soviet times, that stands today as a prime exam-ple of Soviet architecture and way of life.

Next stop is by the sea and Linnahall – an impressive concrete structure, opened in 1980 as a sports centre that has so far not found a proper purpose or owner and is turning into a ruin under the harsh Northern weather conditions. From there it gets even more dramatic, with a visit to Patarei prison. This imposing, seaside complex in the Kalamaja district is now one of the best places in the world to catch a glimpse of Soviet-era prison life in all its dreariness. Originally opened as a sea fortress in 1840, it housed inmates from 1919 until 2004, and has been left virtually untouched since. Visitors can explore the hallways to see cells, work areas, exercise yards and the like.

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Seaside Stories of TallinnDuration: 14:00 – 17:00Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 35 paxPrice per person: 30 EURPrice includes: Bus transfers, guide service and entrance to the Sea-plane Harbour.

The tour starts with a half an hour walk along the Cultural Kilometre up to the Seaplane Harbour. The Cultural Kilometre is a seaside promenade that starts next to the Linnahall building and got its name from Tallinn’s 2011 European Capital of Culture title. Walk-ing along the path the guide will give an overview of Tallinn’s sea-related past, which will be a good intro-duction before entering the Seaplanes Harbour, which is the newest and the most innovative maritime muse-um in Europe; its Grand Opening took place on May 11, 2012. The seaplane hangars used as the museum main building are a unique masterpiece in the whole world, a real archi-tectural wonder. Built in 1916 and now carefully renovated. Inside the visitors will find some more unique things in the whole world: an original submarine from 1936 that is the oldest functioning submarine that has been in water for 75 years - lifted into the museum in 2012; and the one and only seaplane Short 184. In addition visitors will find other life-size maritime things under the water, above the water and over the sea in the sky. The exhibition is not so much a museum display but a real expe-rience - truly innovative, surprising, full of good design solutions, and interesting interactive activities. The new museum excellently combines both past and present, land and sea.

Thursday (May 8, 2014)

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Thursday (May 8, 2014)

Cruise on Kajsamoor Schooner on Tallinn Bay

Duration: 14:00 – 18:00Minimum number of people: 40 paxMaximum number of people: 60 paxPrice per person: 54 EURPrice includes: Transfers to and from the port, guide service, 3-hour cruise on Kajsamoor schooner, selection of snacks and drinks.

Unforgettable sea voyage on Tallinn Bay awaits you on the Kajsamoor, a sailing boat that can accommodate up to 60 passengers. Constructed in Norway in 1939, the boat is typical of the North Sea goods vessels of the time. Today it is all about having fun and singing songs, enjoying the sun and the salty sea air, the smell of tar from the rigging, the beautiful sun-sets and old maritime traditions. And if that’s not enough, the on-board drinks made to old recipes are sure to add a bit more spice! The group will enjoy some food on the open water.

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Rocca al Mare Open Air Museum

Duration: 14:00 – 18:00Minimum number of people: 25 paxMaximum number of people: 35 paxPrice per person: 95 EURPrice includes: Bus transfers, guide service, entrance to museum, folk dance and music performance, traditional snacks and drinks.

Transfer from the hotel to Rocca al Mare Open Air Museum (entrance) and a guided tour in the museum. Rocca al Mare Open Air Museum dis-plays a collection of nearly 100 farm buildings on scenic seaside area, featuring rural life in different parts of Estonia during the last 3 centuries. Real farmsteads, fishing and inland villages, churches, windmills and a functioning village inn Kolu Kõrts have all been moved here to create and preserve a beautiful collection of Estonian countryside scenery. Coffee/tea, national drink ”kama” and some snacks will be served at the inn. The folklore dance ensemble “Savijalakesed” will perform in the courtyard of one of the farmsteads, giving the participants opportunity to experience our living folklore traditions. The experience ends with a transfer back to hotel.

Friday (May 9, 2014)

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Post-conference Tour to St. Petersburg

Duration: 3 daysMinimum number or people: 26 paxMaximum number of people: 36 paxPrice per person: 602 EUR (single room supplement: 200 EUR/per person)Price includes: Accommodation for 2 overnights at Radisson Sonya Ho-tel in double occupancy, indicated program and entrance fees (Peterhof and Hermitage), 1 x 3-course lunch and 2 x 3-course dinners at indicat-ed restaurants with tour-escort (guide) services throughout the program and 1st class coach services for transfers and sightseeing as per stated itinerary. Guided transfer from Tallinn to St. Petersburg. NB! The price does not include airport transfers in St. Petersburg, as these have to be organised separately for participants flying to various destinations.

Day 1

13:00: Departure from Tallinn

16:30 – 17:30: Early dinner in Narva

23:00: Arrival in St.Petersburg. Transfer to the hotel Radisson Blu Sonya****, check-in at the hotel.

Saint-Petersburg is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Begin-ning from the 18 century the best achieve-ments were put in practice in Saint-Peters-burg. It is here there splendid palaces, cathedrals and monuments are built, museums with the richest collections such as the Hermitage and the Russian museum, the famous Mariinsky Theater are constructed. Saint-Petersburg is often called the Northern Capital of Russia. It is the fourth largest megapolis of Europe. Its geopolitical, intellectual, economi-cal, cultural and historical advantages are unique.

Friday - Sunday (May 9-11, 2014)

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Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel

09:00 – 12:30: You will take a 3-hours sightseeing tour along city’s main streets and prospects, enjoying splendid sights: numerous pal-aces and cathedrals, rivers and channels, bridges and parks… During this tour you will see all the most interesting and important sights of the city: Nevsky Prospect, the central avenue of St.Petersburg; Admiralty; Decembrists Square with the Monument to Peter the Great; «Aurora» cruiser; Smolny Cathedral; Spit of St. Basil Island with the beautiful view of the city and other sights. Also you will see famous St. Isaac’s Cathe-dral which is the largest cathedral in the city.

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch at the ‘Russkaya Ryumochnaya (Russian Vodka Room) #1

Russkaya Ryumochnaya (Vodka Room) #1 is a place where different historic epochs are in admirable proportion. The restaurant is designed as a city tavern national style of the 19th century. You would enjoy high arched ceilings and cozy atmosphere of the spacious light rooms. The chef offers such house favorites as smoked sturgeon under cream sauce, suckling pig stuffed with kasha and white mushrooms, reindeer’s tongue stewed in oven for 48 hours, etc. Russian Ryumochnaya features 2 halls with total capacity of 132 pax plus private banquet room for 14 pax. The restaurant is located in the very heart of the city close to the Hermitage, St.Isaac’s Cathedral and Nevsky Prospekt.

14:00 – 17:00: Tour of the HermitageGuide escorts group around highlights: Italian art, Rembrandt, Spanish art, French impressionists, State rooms

The State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world. It is located in 6 historical buildings of St. Petersburg, including the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian emperors, the Small Hermitage, The Old Hermitage, the New Hermitage, the Hermitage Theatre and the General Staff Building. The buildings of the museum, by themselves, are architec-tural chef-d’oeuvres. The Winter Palace, erected by F.-B. Rastrelli

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in 1754-1762 for Empress Elisabeth, Peter the Great’s daughter, is the biggest edifice executed in high Baroque style. The Small Hermitage, constructed by J.-B. Vallin de la Mothe between 1764 and 1767, and the Old Hermitage, built by Y. Velten between 1771 and 1787, were meant to be used by Empress Catherine the Great for her own apartments and for her collections of art, purchased in Europe. The New Hermitage, ordered by Nicholas I, was construct-ed by L. Von Klenze in 1839-1852 and became the first building in Russia, designed to contain and exhibit museum collections. The collections of the Hermitage number over 3 million items from prehistoric to modern times. Magnificent works of art embracing prehistoric culture, Egyptian art, the art of Antiquity, Scythian gold, and great collections of Western-European paintings (Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Poussain, Manet, Renoir and oth-ers) and sculptures are displayed in the 400 halls of the museum.

17:30 – 19:30: Free time

19:30: Transfer to the restaurant ‘Feodor Dostoyevsky’

20:00 – 22:30: Dinner at the Feodor Dostoyevsky Restaurant with folk show

The restaurant received its name by a reason, its clients will be the “neighbors” of Fedor Dostoyevsky: in different periods of his life the writ-er rented apartments in the neighboring buildings # 11 and 13, at Vladi-mirsky Prospekt, and observed from his window the same roofs of these tenement-houses and gloomy courtyard, hidden by the glorious facades. Return to the hotel, overnight.

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Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel

09:30 – 13:30: Tour of Parks in Peterhof and Grand Palace

The world-famous palace, fountain and park ensemble of Peterhof is an outstanding landmark of Russian artistic culture of the 18-19th centuries. Founded in the very beginning of the eighteenth century by Emperor Peter the Great not far from his new northern capital St Petersburg, Peterhof was intended to become the most splendid official royal summer residence. Credit for its creation should go to a great number of eminent architects, artists, and anonymous folk craftsmen. Its wonder-ful parks, 176 fountains of various forms and styles and four cascades, majestic palaces, numerous gilded statues of an-cient gods and heroes, remarkable collections of sculpture, painting and works of the minor arts make Peterhof a veritable gem of art, often called “Capital of Fountains”, unique in the world. Back to St. Petersburg.

TBA: Transfers to the St Petersburg airport, departure.

Hotel Descriptions

Radisson Sonya Hotel****5/19, Liteyny pr.191187 St. Petersburg - Russia Phone: + 7 812 406 00 00http://www.radisson.ru/en/sonyahotel-stpetersburg

Radisson Hotel Sonya is inspired by the Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s legendary novel “Crime and Punishment”. This contemporary and very personal ho-tel offers 173 cozy and well-equipped rooms, lively “Metamorfos” restau-rant and bar, four hi-tech fully equipped meeting rooms and a spacious courtyard for private functionaries. Radisson Hotel Sonya, St.Petersburg is ideally located in the city center with an overview on Liteyny bridge and Neva River and easy access to the Hermitage Museum and Peter and Paul fortress. The otel is approximately 17 km from Pulkovo airport and 3 km away from the Moskovsky Railway Station.

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Post-conference Bicycle Trip Estonia 2014

Hindriks Global Bicycle Tours is organizing a 10-day post conference bicycle tour in Estonia, in the western part of the country close to the Baltic Sea. The ride takes you through a gorgeous landscape with deep forests, sandy beaches, and picturesque lakes combining wonderful bike riding with great nature, small villages, interesting spa towns and fascinating history. You’ll stay in towns like Pärnu, the most famous Estonian resort town in the southwest, Kuressaare on the largest island of Saarema and in the gorgeous Padaste Manor on Muhu island. High-lights are charming fishing villages with wooden and thatched houses, medieval churches and castles, and the splendid natural surroundings close to the Baltic Sea. This trip combines great nature, small villages and towns, interesting history and culture with nice riding.

Accommodations are excellent, with 4 and 5 star ratings. Most hotels have massage, sauna and pool facilities and are located in an attractive small town or scenic setting. The riding is easy to moderate, mostly flat, hardly any rolling terrain and some gravel. Daily distances between 30 and 35 miles with two longer point to point riding days. Trip is 10 days/9 nights with 2 three-night stay, a two-night stay and the last night will be near Tallinn Airport to enable trip participants to fly back to USA on the last Sunday morning. Trip price $3,600, single supplement $550. Includ-ed are bus tranfers, luxury comfortable hotels, all breakfasts, 6 dinners, trekking bikes (Giant Aero RS1), entrance fees to selected sights, bicycle guides, and support van. Dates are from Friday May 9 till Sunday May 18, 2014.

For more information:Email Herman at herman@hindrikstours.com

Friday - Sunday (May 9-18, 2014)