Beyond the Arctic Circle

Traveling in Scandinavia is a bit like traveling to Alaska. When you start out in the Lower 48 you have lots of routes to choose from, but by the time you get into Canada heading north, the routes start to …

Stockholm

We arrived in Turku after an uneventful jaunt across Finland from Helsinki and found a parking lot near the terminal where we could spend the night. We had to be in line for the ferry at 7:20 a.m. for an …

Slowing down in Warsaw

I have said many times before with regard to our lifestyle, we are not on vacation. As such, we have down days, chore days, lazy days, personal days, sick days, Netflix and chill days and all kinds of other days …

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives there. That statement is on the homepage of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum website and there’s almost nothing further …

Poland

I have to admit that both Steven and I were disappointed when our plans to visit Iceland had to be shelved and Poland became our new destination. In my mind, Poland was, at best, a transit country, a grey, postwar, …

Enjoying Switzerland

As I mentioned in our previous post, I planned to write about our summer travels, but believe it or not, they’re all still up in the air. Two weeks ago things were looking promising, borders were opening and the vax …

Crossing a new border

I told Steven that as soon as I got that post about the Dordogne written I had lots of ideas for other posts I would write while we were in Sens. Because not long after we arrived back here, just …

The Dordogne

As promised, in this post we return to our travels in the Dordogne. I can’t say I knew much about this area before coming here, but as our week in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the foothills of the Pyrenees came to an …