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..
In the old capital
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..
It’s a ship, not a boat
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..
Disappointment, hope and success!
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..
Trains, boats and buses
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..
The Norway Scooter Death Challenge
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..
When in Oslo
This morning we are leaving Oslo and headed to Bergen via Flam on the “Norway in a Nutshell” ticket and it seems like the perfect time to catch up here. While we were waiting for Tim and Nan to arrive on Thursday, we visited the Oslo City Hall where they present the Nobel Peace Prize...
Out the door…again.
While we have taken some awesome trips in the last 5 years, it’s been nearly that long since we’ve done something significant enough to revive this blog. And even this trip started as something completely different. We’ve always wanted to do a river cruise and started talking about with our friends Tim & Nan Borer..
Sometimes, life’s a beach
This is a bit of catching up. Tonight, with one full day left in New Zealand, we realized that we have stayed in 18 places in less than 7 weeks That’s a lot of moving around, and we’re feeling it. So this post is about everything between Matamata (a little bit before, truth be told),..
North to Napier
Napier started out just being a stopping point between Wellington and Hobbiton…I mean Matamata. We talked about going up to Rotarua, famous for geothermal mud baths and a Maori village, but the more we read about it, it seemed a little too much like Queenstown in regards to crowds and craziness. So we made Napier..