Svendborg, Denmark – July 29 to 31, 2013 Svendborg is a little town out on a Southwestern peninsula of the country that juts out into the Baltic Sea. It is a bit of an old industrial port and still has some commercial activity going on down by the docks. It also has its very own, …
Sweden – Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden – July 27 & 28, 2013 Believe it or not, we took our first train trip on July 25, almost three months into our journey. In general, we are fond of train travel, but it actually gets pretty expensive in Northern Europe and given our itinerary and the costs, it just seemed …
Norway – Oslo and the Road to Oslo (trying a new naming format)
Oslo, Norway – July 23&24, 2013 From the fjordlands, we had a simply beautiful long drive to Oslo. Again, the scenery and amazing feats of road engineering were spectacular. It was a longish, but very enjoyable drive. You have probably already seen the pictures so you know how beautiful it is. When we arrived …
Norway, Voss & the Fjords
Voss, Norway – July 19-21, 2013 We rented a car from Bergen and headed to Voss. The drive was absolutely stunning. We rented a little apartment at a ski slope in a beautiful valley close to Voss and were able to tour the fjordlands from there. This certainly is a land of stunning natural beauty …
Bergen, Norway
Bergen, Norway, July 15, 2013 We left sunny skies in Aberdeen to arrive in the Bergen rain. This is not very surprising since Bergen acheives close to 90 inches of rain on average each year. Bergen is another city supposedly built on 7 hills (I have lost track of how many of these we have …
Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen, Scotland, July 13 & 14, 2013 We arrived in Aberdeen on a gray afternoon that promised showers. This was Joan’s last day and she had packing and preparing to do for her international flight the next morning. One thing we definately noted on the way in and again going out to procure dinner was …
Lossiemouth and Elgin, Scotland
Lossiemouth and Elgin, July 12, 2013 Now we come to a Scottish experience which was pretty much completely unexpected by me….the BEACH! Not really something that I associate with Scotland given its northerly location, but we spent one night outside of Elgin in this lovely town fabulously named Lossiemouth (it was at the mouth of …
Fort Augustus, Scotland, July 9-11, 2013
Fort Augustus, Scotland – July 9-11, 2013 Sad to leave the beauty of Skye, but forgetting or not quite realizing yet that ALL of Scotland is stunning, we headed to Fort Augustus on Loch Ness. We had booked a couple of small apartments at a lovely place right on the loch which had been converted …
Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Isle of Skye, Scotland – July 6-8, 2013 On the drive to the Isle of Skye we went through a national park which was absolutely stunning before the weather made a turn for the worse and we basically arrived on the island in a storm, so we couldn’t see much of anything. It rained all …
Edinburgh, Scotland – July 2&3, 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland – 7/2&3/2013 Ah, Edinburgh….it is a stunning city. The hilly terrain makes it in some sense reminiscent of San Francisco, but the buildings are more gothic than any place we have ever been. Fabulous, curly spires poke out from every viewpoint and the view from Edinburgh Castle is inspiring. Of course, this is …