Hello faithful readers, Our latest adventure brought us to the old world, into a city in Estonia named Tallinn. Tallinn sits on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and we reached our destination via a large cruise ship named Baltic Queen. This thing is a huge, Love […]
Ready for some more Stockholm adventures? Too bad, because we day-tripped to Uppsala today. It’s the fourth largest city in Sweden, and is about an hour’s train ride away. America, Europe has this really cool conveyance called trains, and these trains let people easily and cost effectively move […]
Greetings once again from sunny, chilly Stockholm. Today’s big event was a trip to the Vasa Museum, identified as an attraction by Bex and highly recommended also by my friend John Heer. The Vasa Museum contains what is undoubtedly the largest 17th century warship still in existence. This […]
Greetings dear readers, from Stockholm. We arrived here two days ago by train from Oslo. The Swedes are winning the train competition…we rode in luxury in a quiet, wood-paneled car that left on time and arrived early at our destination. Along the way we drank decent coffee and […]
Hello Dear Readers Our first full day in Aalborg began underground, as we checked out the ruins of an 800-year-old Franciscan monastery which was paved over several hundred years ago, only to be re-discovered during a construction project in the 90’s. This discovery led to the builders doing […]
Dear Diary We are now in Copenhagen, Denmark, having left the friendly confines of Scotland for adventures on the continent. Slight turbulence has provided “texture” to the smooth ride that we experienced for the first two weeks of the trip. It would have been so boring to have […]
These are Merrell Continuum boots. They have Vibram soles and some type of wicking material as part of their upper surface. They are warm in the winter and comfortable in warm weather. They have kept my feet comfortable and dry for two weeks of “mixed” weather in England […]
Howdy folks, this is John. I gave Bex the morning off and decided to scribe today’s entry meself. ‘ope it ‘olds up. Today we decided to throw caution to the wind and attempt driving on this beautiful isle.Ominously, it was windy as hell. But, as you are observing, […]
…it is, however, quite thrilling to be in one. Although you wouldn’t want a bee in one. As it happens, Bex’ sister Louise, and her husband Chris, and Chris’ father Jim, are all avid operators of apiaries. Years ago…in the British equivalent of the Boy Scouts, Chris’ and […]
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