Yesterday was another travel day, another day of schlepping our luggage on and off trains, up and down elevators, and through the London Underground, to travel from Cambridge to Worcester. It meant returning to Kings Cross train station, navigating our way through the Underground to Paddington Station where we could take a train to Worcester.… Read More Three Choirs Festival, here we come!
Yesterday was a travel day, always an ordeal no matter the distance. Our objective was to fly from Copenhagen to London Heathrow, then use the Elizabeth train line to reach Kings Cross, from where we could take a National Rail train to Cambridge. Once we reached the Cambridge rail station we could take a taxi… Read More A day in Cambridge
We are in Copenhagen for only two nights but the colorful city has made quite an impression. This is my third visit here and I’m thinking specifically about the colorful buildings along the waterfront which remind me of Bergen. Couple the building colors with the many summertime flowers and you have quite a picturesque city.… Read More Colorful Copenhagen
When Bill Potter and I decided to book the tour “Highlights of Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway and Denmark,” he said that he was going to write to Hope Jahren to see if we could meet sometime during or after our tour. If her name sounds familiar, perhaps you’ve read her bestselling books, Lab Girl or The… Read More Happy times with Hope and Clint
Today we toured Norway by train, bus, and boat … and all in one day, to boot! I believe some tours call this “Norway in a nutshell.” It’s a tour which I’ve taken two times before, and it’s still memorable and beautiful. We woke up early, only to walk across the street to the train… Read More Majestic Norwegian fjords
EDITOR’S NOTE: I realized that this post was sitting in my Drafts for several years (!), and now is a perfect opportunity to publish it. Sorry it took me so long! When is the last time you walked into a church and saw any sort of memorial tribute to an organist? Oh, I’ve walked into… Read More Tribute to an organist
It was just about 5 years ago that I visited Norway on a trip with Brekke Tours, and about 25 years before that I came to Norway with my husband Carl. So this trip with GoAhead Tours is my third visit to this beautiful country, and certainly, my third trip to Bergen. We started the… Read More Bergen, revisited
I had set my alarm for 4:45 am in order to put my bag outside my room for pickup at 5:30, and found myself wide awake at 12:04 am! Luckily I fell back to sleep again, and woke up at 4:00, with plenty of time to spare. We left the hotel at 6:00 am for… Read More Reindeer hot dogs in Bergen
Even though we had a more leisurely call time of 9:30 am today, I still woke up at 4:00 am, as I have done for the last three mornings we’ve been here in Stockholm. We took a ferry ride across Lake Mälaren to Drottningholm Palace, built in the 16th century and called Sweden’s Versaille. It… Read More If it hadn’t been for the bridge …
Today was Bill Potter’s birthday and our tour director, Sonia, called for everyone on the bus to sing “Happy Birthday,” which turned out to be more of a monotone rather than the typical multiple-tonal version performed by non-musicians. Our day started with a tour of City Hall, where the annual Nobel Prize banquet is held… Read More City Hall, Vikings and Uppsala