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Mauthausen, Austria 🇦🇹
Travel date: May 1, 2024 Today is May Day in Europe. Basically, Europe is closed. I think we are celebrating summer equinox and worker’s rights. All the towns put up a huge maypole, and then there is dancing and day drinking. We had a different May Day experience – spent the day at the Mauthausen…
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Tromsø & Kirkenes, Norway 🇳🇴
Had a free day in Tromsø today. Walked around town, did some shopping, and searched out the grocery and liquor stores, two places I always try to visit when we travel. I could browse them for hours. Ken is … less enthusiastic. At the market, there was an entire row dedicated to canned fish/fishy things.…
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Lyngsfjord, Norway 🇳🇴
Arctic Adventure Day! Drove 75km south of Tromsø to the Lyngsfjord Wilderness Camp. Took a guided snowmobile trip. Our Finnish guide: “If you drank a bottle of vodka for breakfast, you cannot do this activity.” Apparently, this is an issue they have to deal with frequently. Did not fall on the ice today, but can…
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Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
Unending Travel. [No pics yet because we haven’t seen the anything outside of an airport /airport hotel in 42 hours. But here’s a map of Norway, for reference.] However far away you think the Arctic Circle is, add 2 billion miles. It’s really fucken far. And the city of Tromsø (our home base for the…
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🏴 First Impressions of Edinburgh: Rain, Castles, Gin, and George the Pigeon
Ken and I are in Scotland to celebrate our 30th anniversary — Edinburgh for a couple days, then into the Scottish Highlands, where Ken will be hunting. I will be not hunting. First: I am not sweating. It’s glorious. However, the brochure did not lie about Scotland weather. It’s cool/cold, gray, and rains every 90…