Going Out The Door

As we start this post, we’re in Baiona, Spain, and it’s our first rest day on the journey. We’re looking out over the harbor on a Saturday, with the nearby beach well populated with folks swimming and wading into the calm waters, and a marina chock full of boats in the background. We’ll see where..

Please note the quotation marks--this is a quote overheard in a hotel lobby early one morning. We have no idea what she is talking about. She surely cannot be referring to the 9, 10, 11, miles of walking each day. Day after day after day. Or the heat -- it has been in the 80s..

Just finished day 4. We'll start chronologically, but the highlight (so far) comes at the end day 3. The company we used to help book hotels, etc, provided a very helpful "roadbook" detailing each leg of our journey. We quickly discovered the distances were a little misleading and referred to the time spent on the..

Last day in Porto, overlooking the Duoro River. Mid-afternoon and it won't be a surprise to anyone that we are sitting in a plaza having a cerveja. This will likely be a longer post as we want to catch up on the last few days. Tomorrow, we're starting the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, beginning in..

After Trondheim we headed back to Oslo with the plan to spend 2 nights and one more day there before heading home. We had seen a lot of what we wanted in Oslo in the first few days of the trip, but one thing left on the agenda was the Munch Museum—one of, if not..

So the journey south on the Havila Castor ended in Trondheim, where we docked at the ungodly early hour (for Tom) of 6:30 am. Fortunately, it was a longer port call and, while we had to check out, we didn’t actually have to leave the ship until about 9:30 am. Yum - one more delicious..

This is going to be short one to describe the Havila Castor—the ship we took from Tromso to Trondheim. We boarded at around midnight so our goal after a long day was just to get to our cabin and get some sleep. As budget travelers, we booked a small interior room with the thought that..

Cold, windy and rainy Tromso was our next stop. We had scheduled a Northern Lights boat tour for the night of our arrival, but as mentioned in our last post, it was cancelled due to poor conditions and cloud cover - a bit of a bummer, but glad they canceled it instead of sending us..

Today is another travel day—Bergen to Tromso this time. Looking out of the plane’s window, much of the highlands are already quite snowy with the dark channels of the fjords cutting their way back into the interior. Since we left Oslo, we’ve taken a train (two, in fact) to Flam, a boat to Gudvangen, a..

It’s all the rage here apparently, Well, not real “rage” actually, just the facts on the ground as we’ve wandered the streets of Norway. Like many urban environments, there are scooters e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. In and of itself, not really a problem. But the drivers? Yeah, that’s a problem. If they would pick a “lane” and stick..