After a train ride to Southampton we started the next stage of our adventure, a 12 day cruise around Norway. We boarded the ship and met up with our regular travel buddies, Ed and Shelly! It was so nice to get to our room and completely unpack after almost 5 weeks of living out of … Continue reading Cruising Norway, Bruges to Flam

We left the lovely Stockholm and the EU and flew to London. For me it was a very exciting day because I was going to get my hair done. So we had to find a pub for Steve to amuse himself while I went to the hairdresser. I was a bit worried he might become … Continue reading London

The next stop on our journey north was Stockholm, Sweden. It was a two stage train trip with the first a crossing of the Oresund bridge, that is both a bridge and underwater tunnel, joining Sweden with Denmark. Very cool engineering! Oresund bridge We then changed trains in Malmo for the trek to Stockholm. The … Continue reading Stockholm

New country! Denmark and hoping to run into Queen Mary and catch up for a coffee or wine. We caught the train from Hamburg and it was roughly 5 hours. Trains in Europe are pretty comfy but our carriage had a problem with its aircon and it was like a sauna. Luckily it wasn’t fully … Continue reading Copenhagen

Today we had a long drive to Hamburg, so it was an early start and it was a much easier exit than Brussels. Part of the drive was along a sea wall or basically a big dam or a dyke. It is 32 kms long and was constructed to protect the low lying areas of … Continue reading Hamburg