Translation lost in Oslo

The cruise overnight passed quietly. I’d planned to do some writing but the WiFi access was, for all practical purposes, non-existent. Sadly, this situation would periodically recur throughout the trip. Instead, after dinner, I wandered around the ship and met …

A melancholy visit to Helsingor

At the end of the previous entry, I asked you, dear reader, to think about why I might visit Helsingør which is about 40-minutes by train from Copenhagen. Have you made the connection? If you have, congratulations. If not, the …

A Ginger (Jinja) day in Copenhagen

Needless to say, my timely arrival at our tour bus in Copenhagen (correctly pronounced “Keu-bn-houn” where the first vowel is close to the French ‘peu’ and in American English fall somewhere between the sounds in ‘look’ and ‘lick’) was not …