Monthly Archives: August 2015

Ruminations, reflections and lessons from Ulvik to Bergen

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In case you haven’t noticed, unlike last year’s trip on the Great River Road, this journal is being neither written nor published contemporaneously. Instead, I’m making nightly diary entries and reviewing my photos. I’ve decided I’m on holiday. By now, …

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Vikings and trolls and a bear, oh my!

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The first stop of the morning came, appropriately enough, at the Viking ship museum in Oslo. The Vikings played an important part in the history of the British Isles and hence in America’s history as well so let’s start with …

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