The heat wave continues in Stockholm, making our many walks around the city enjoyable indeed for us sun seekers. It’s immediately evident that the population is greater than any city so far on our Scandinavian journey, tallying nearly a million. The lengthy pedestrian street is a shopping mecca thick with people. The Old Town’s labyrinthine…
Norway Oslo is having a heat wave! We slather on sunscreen and forge forth in the wonderful +30 degrees Celsius weather daily. Olso’s lengthy pedestrian street, Karl Johan gate, is high octane with its flood of people and street performers (of which my winning choice is battery boy). Tantalizing odours wafting out of eateries, shopping…
Chill’in in the trendy capital of Iceland is for us an oxymoron, below normal temperatures and steaming hot springs in this country of mega geothermal activity. Reykjavik shops have plenty of Icelandic wool in every form, enticing souvenirs, restaurants serving world cuisines and local favourites, such as traditional “meat soup”. We find truth in the…
Rounding the Riveting Rings of Kerry and Skellig Ireland – After reveling in high-spirited Dublin, Rick and I aim “Peacock” (our startling turquoise Peugeot rental car) southward toward the famed ring roads promising spectacular scenery, with a planned stop at Blarney. Or, rather two stops…as Rick insists we visit Kilkenny Castle. “Perhaps I’m a long…
Newgrange Passage Tomb just north of Dublin – Anthropological sites draw me in with magnetic force. En route from Derry, Rick and I stop at Drogheda, the city closest to the ancient burial mounds of Brú na Bóinne. The three massive tombs in this Neolithic necropolis date back from about 3,200 BC – making them…
