Beautiful Iceland
From Finland it was only about a 4 hour flight to Iceland. We only had 5 days so we stayed in Reykjavik and took a few day trips to see as much as we could. This was a good way to do it on a first visit, but next time we would rent a car or mini-motor home, and do the whole island. The natural beaut...
Salmon, salmon, and more salmon
Flying into Helsinki, we could see hundreds (thousands) of small islands. Who knew? Anyway, Finland is the land of around 180,000 islands and maybe 130,000 lakes. Everyone has a “cabin” on a lake or an island somewhere (except me!). And generally, you can count on those places to have a sauna, since...
The Dancing Queen
It was a dark and stormy night…in Oslo, the night before we were to take the train to Stockholm. With a heavy rain, some parts of the rail route were washed out, so we took a bus for a couple hours and caught the train in the town of Arvika in Sweden. This added a few hours to our journey, but it wa...
Fjord Land
We had originally planned to spend four nights in Bergen, but after getting a taste of the fjords in Stavanger we decided to spend more time in the smaller towns on the water. We had to rearrange things a bit as we had already booked travel from Bergen to Oslo using “Norway in a Nutshell” for a trai...
Stavanger to Bergen
From Copenhagen we took about a one hour flight to Stavanger, Norway. About a 20 minute Uber to our hotel in the downtown area, where we stayed for 3 (make that 4) nights. This is a beautiful town on a fjord in south western Norway, where ships are built and maintained in dry dock - many having to d...
Fast and Furious
It’s time to take another trip! This time we’ll head to Scandinavia - an area neither of us have visited before. And this will be a bit of a whirlwind for us - only a little more than a month on this adventure. The costs to travel seem to have taken a significant increase in the past two years since...