The last stop on Jessica’s work-tour of Europe was Oslo, Norway. It was far less busy for her than Stockholm, but just busy enough that we didn’t have time to do too much there. We also were spending some time prepping for our last hurrah–three weeks of mostly-hiking in the fjord-lands of Norway. (More on that in the next few […]
Oslo Wanderings
Re-energizing in Stockholm
In my last post, I raved about Copenhagen. Stockholm is better. We spent longer here than any other place we’ve been other than New York and London (which were measured on the scale of months, not days). Other than a three day weekend (Monday was the National Day), Jessica had interviews or archival research every day. It turns out, we […]
More Friends! More Buildings! More Treats! (Quick stops in Köln, Bonn, and Copenhagen)
After leaving Switzerland, our next week and a half was a bit different. Jessica had less scheduled work, my job-seeking madness was over, the mountains were behind us. Instead, we had three pleasant, but completely different low key stops. But, first we had to brave the drunk football fans on our train. They were in the next car, but through […]
Highs and Lows in Switzerland
If you’re following along, you may have noticed we went from Paris to Tours to the Dordogne (pretty far south in France) all the way up to Amsterdam…and now all the way back down to Switzerland, nearly as far south as we had been before. So much for efficiency. But, it was the timing that worked best for our families […]
Bikes, Flowers, Canals, and a Naked Boy: Adventures in the Netherlands and Belgium
Apologies in advance…the last couple of weeks were kinda epic! After getting dropped at the train station in Sarlat, Jessica and I had a long trip up to Amsterdam. Not only did we have three trains, but we had to take the Metro across Paris to change from one station to another. Regardless, we arrived to three interesting things in […]
France is Pretty
You read the title, right? That’s it. I got nothing else to say. No. Of course I have more to say, but I will warn you that this will be a photo-heavy post because there was just so much beauty during our week and a half there. Before I get into it, a COVID update. Jessica and I only traveled […]
A tale of Cardiff, Cliffs, and COVID
When Jessica and I left London a few weeks ago, we didn’t leave the UK, but instead went to Wales. Jessica was under a loose obligation to attend a gathering of Fulbright Scholars there, even though most of the rest of them were on UK-specific programs, whereas Jessica is being funded through a “Global” program. Regardless, they asked her to […]
London 10: Life in London
The last week we were in London was fairly cold and had some bouts of raininess. Fairly typical for our time there. But our second to last week there was glorious. It was bright and sunny. People were walking around in t-shirts. The parks were overflowing. So, I want to finish my memories of London with some of the most […]
London 9: Art and more…out and about
Much as I said there was history around every corner in London, not just in museums, the same is absolutely true for art. You may have noticed that the canals have a fair amount of graffiti along the walls, and the same is true in many more places. There’s a huge range from more simple tags to formal street art […]
London 8: Art…from the traditional to the exceptional
There are about a million art museums and galleries in London. We didn’t get to that many of them, but hit a few of the big ones during our couple of months there. Like the British Museum, and really most of the major museums in London, all the major art galleries have free entry, with some more substantial fee for […]