In depth recounting of my global wandering
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …