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🍷 🇳🇴 What to Drink in Norway: A Sip-by-Sip Guide to Norwegian Drinks Culture
Norway has the highest alcohol taxes in Europe, a state monopoly on anything stronger than 4.7% beer, and roughly four hours of usable daylight in January. And yet — somehow — Norwegians have built one of the most quietly obsessive drinking cultures on the continent. How did a country that makes you show ID to…
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Kirkenes, Norway 🇳🇴
After surviving our night in the ice hotel, I was up by 0700, and heading toward a hot shower. Breakfast and then a king crab adventure await! Our crab guide, Dirk, is a German by birth, but has lived here, at the top of the world, for the last 15 years. He speaks German, English,…
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Dunkeld, Scotland 🏴
The hunters were out at Lindores Estate today. Excellent day for them – Ken sent a couple of pics. I had the day all to myself . . . walked all over Scotland. Shared my yogurt this morning with a beautiful black lab pup named Poppy. I told Ken a few days ago I want…
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Getting Our Bearings in Dunkeld, Scotland 🏴
Wee bit of rain this morning. Logistics today. Caravaned north from Edinburgh to the village of Dunkeld, in the Scottish Highlands, which will be home base for the next few days. Dunkeld was first settled by Culdee monks (yeah, I don’t know who that is, either (I’m going with super religious dudes) in 730AD. Dunkeld…
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🏴 A Wee Day in Edinburgh: Gin, Watches, and My First Bite of Haggis
Slept for 12 blissful hours! Well, minus the two hours I was awake and starving at 4am, raiding the hotel mini bar for snacks. Scottish potato chips are delicious. Hotel breakfast buffet: Learned that a full Scottish breakfast includes haggis. Did not have full Scottish breakfast. Couldn’t bring myself to lift the lid and have…