We were recommended to check out Vigeland Park in Oslo. So we did. It is an impressive place, filled with tourists, primarily, it seemed, from Asia. Little did we know, as we walked through the place, that Vigeland himself was something of a Nazi sympathiser and that his works are sometimes considered to “reek of […]
We took a daytrip up to visit Ove’s farm, about an hour north of Kristiansand. On the way up we stopped at the duvet outlet to pick up some dual duvets. We have become enamored with the two duvet for one bed system, and wanted to bring some home as a final souvenir. Ove’s farm is […]
One of the joys of travel is meeting people on the road that you otherwise would not normally meet. Ove and Bodil fall into this category. We were seated with them at a table for lunch one day, and a friendship bloomed. We, and others, had dinner together after debarking in Barcelona. Now we were […]
When we were studying Spanish in Cuenca,Ecuador, we met Regina, a woman from Sweden who was also studying Spanish. Last New Year’s Eve we met up with Regina and several friends. One of the friends, Natasha, was from Finland. When we went to the beach several days later, Natasha shared a car with us. Eating […]
Johan, Kristina, Ellen and I went to visit the Vasa Museum. It is a testament to royal hubris. The king of Sweden ordered the building of a new flagship. He wanted it bigger and scarier than anything that had come before. Against the advice of his builders, he made it taller and taller. When launched, […]
Our first stop on the Johan and Kristina city tour was the city hall. It was built in the early 1900’s and was quite refreshing as it was not gothic, romanesque, or baroque. The lines are clean and project nobility and stability. As it is where the banquets for Nobel prizes are held, it was […]
We took the train from Copenhagen to Stockholm. We were impressed with the similarities between the landscape we were going through and the landscape in northern Minnesota. Granite, lakes, pine, and bogs were common along the route. It is very flat, and we have since found out that they have quite a few moose. Johan […]
We returned from our Hamlet adventure to Casper and Gasia’s place for a delicious dinner, cooked by Grasia. The next day we had Casper to ourselves to see Copenhagen. We headed downtown where we grabbed a canal tour. We were able to see many of the standard touristic sites (i.e. the “forever disappointing” little mermaid). […]
We took the train to Copenhagen from Hamburg. This was our first experience of combining the train with a ferry, as they put the train cars on the ferry, and sailed across from Germany to Denmark. This was also our first experience with a hybrid ferry, that captures excess power from the engines and uses […]
For our first full day in Copenhagen, Casper decided to take us all, (Grasia, her mother and brother, Ellen, and me), to Hamlet’s castle in Kronborg. We hopped on a train and headed north. The castle is located at the narrowest part of the channel between Denmark and Sweden. This so that the king could […]
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