Travel to Norway and Sweden With Two Books
Let’s leave Ontario’s frosty weather and go…to equally cold climates? This month, I am traveling to Norway and Sweden, taking a bit of a Scandinavia tour to countries that may be as cold as our own, but their beauty makes it...
Stockholm on Midsommer Sunday
It is the Sunday of the long Midsommer weekend and the streets of Stockholm are teeming with mostly tourists enjoying the sunny weather and their first ice cream of the summer. We are told that many of the locals are out of town...
An Entire Year of Following Summer.
A day of travel and time for contemplation. The beginning of a year of living in the moment, following an intense period of planning, when it often seemed that we spent all our time living in the future as we laid the groundwork...
Europe Greetings: Which Cheek is Offered First?
N 55 E 012 Hamburg to Køpenhavn: 485 Kilometers Today we will cross a major bridge, 24 kilometres long, connecting 2 regions of Denmark, Fyn and Sjælland, over the Storebælt. This bridge opened 4 or 5 years ago, at about the same...
The Tunnel Bridge to Malmö, Sweden
Saturday, June 26th, 2004: Stockholm, Sweden N 59°, E 018° to Stockholm: 656 kilometres The day starts grey and dreary. We take our leave of Pedro and Bjarne and the cats, and head off for Sweden. The 15 kilometre-long...
Change of Plans: ‘Turn West at Umea’
Saturday, July 10th, 2004: Dorotea, Sweden N 64 E 016 Kemi to Dorotea: 631 kilometres The weather is at least with us today as we spend another big day of driving. The sun is out and is a steady beacon as we head south and west....
The Border Between Sweden and Norway
Sunday, July 11th, 2004: Trøndheim, Norway N 63 E 010 Dorotea to Trøndheim: 438 kilometres The road gently rises until we are in the mountains, and driving through ski areas – including Ånn, the site of the 2007 world downhill...