Velkommen til København! We’re in Copenhagen! It’s been a long day, but it’s great to be here. This city is very cool – we’re enjoying it already and we’ve only been here a few hours. Man was it an expedition to get here though! The plan originally was […]
Hitching a ride to Oslo on the Bergen Railway We’re in Oslo blog-fans! The only city in the world where you can pay $12 for a Big Mac (if you’re so inclined, which we are not), and yet pay nothing to see the original “Scream” painting by Impressionist […]
A trip through Hell on the way from Östersund (Sweden) to Trondheim (Norway) Hell is a small town in Northern Norway. Our train from Östersund stopped there briefly today on its way to Trondheim. It was very sunny wand warm when we were there, but for those of […]
Tracking North to Östersund We left Stockholm today (awww…), heading North for the lakeside town of Östersund (yaaay!). The train journey took us first from Stockholm to Sundsvall (on the East coast of Sweden) on an InterCity Express train (very schmick); in Sundsvall we then had to change to a […]
Farewell Finland – we’re off to Sweden! Our week in Finland is up already and tonight we’re sleeping aboard the Tallink Silja ship “Serenade”. The Serenade is one of a fleet of ferries that go between Stockholm and Helsinki, across the Northern Baltic Sea. It’s a huge ship […]