Trip: Back Again
There are [22] stories from my trip: Back Again
CROATIA | Saturday, 17 Nov 2018 | Photo Gallery
Dubrovnik, Split, & Zagreb
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Perhaps what I will remember most of visiting these places with my Colorado friend is talking at cafes and restaurants down narrow cobblestone streets while waiting for better weather, and alternately being soaked by the rain. Out of about 7 days we ... Read more >
Tags: cats, churches, city walls, concerts, diocletians palace, dubrovnik, museum of broken relationships, split, zagreb
CROATIA | Thursday, 8 Nov 2018 | Photo Gallery
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Over my first week in Croatia I endeavored to learn words in the local language such as “Thank you,” “Excuse me, do you speak English?” and “Good day”. In Croatian “hv” is pronounced somewhere between a ... Read more >
Tags: biking, food, fortress, hvar, off season croatia, stari grad, stari grad plains, swimming
CROATIA | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018 | Photo Gallery
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It was this place that first captured my interest. It is the reason I know where Croatia is. The highlight of this place is simply, or incredibly the lakes. It’s hard to put into words what a photo can say, and even then it’s hard to truly ... Read more >
Tags: croatia, hiking, plitvice
CROATIA | Friday, 26 Oct 2018 | Photo Gallery
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Rovinj is the perfect location for an unplanned day of simply wandering up and down the beautiful streets, which are spotlessly clean. The pale stones also shine from the thousands of feet that have passed over it.
Perhaps because I live so far from ... Read more >
Tags: forest park, istria, lone bay, market, rovinj, seafood, st. euphemia, swimming
NORWAY | Sunday, 21 Oct 2018 | Photo Gallery
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As my train pulled into Bergen I realized my phone, which I was relying on for a map to where I was staying, was dangerously low on battery. I started off, and before long, though not without ascending one of Bergen’s steep hills, realized that ... Read more >
Tags: bergen, bryggen, bryggens museum, hanseatic league, hanseatic museum, seafood market
NORWAY | Friday, 19 Oct 2018 | Photo Gallery
Fjords of Norway
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After trying and failing to stay entirely awake on the 6:25 am train out of Oslo my friend and I revived for the most impressive scenery passing the train windows as we climbed higher into the mountains. As we approached approximately 4,000 feet above ... Read more >
Tags: balestrand, fjords, hiking, naeroyfjord, norway in a nutshell
NORWAY | Saturday, 13 Oct 2018 | Photo Gallery
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Such a short time for a city with so much to do, namely so many museums! After taking an hour to relax at our airbnb and getting to know the friendly kitten sized cat that came with it we headed out to explore a piece of Oslo. Perhaps the best moments ... Read more >
Tags: fram museum, norsk folkemuseum, open air museum, oslo, transportation, vigeland park
SWEDEN | Thursday, 20 Sep 2018 | Photo Gallery
Stockholm, Sweden
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SWEDEN | Thursday, 20 Sep 2018 | Views [399]
One benefit to catching up with yourself a few weeks on is perhaps that it’s easier to pick the most memorable pieces of each stop to share rather than every detail as it still shines clearly in your mind. Then again what could be said in a few ... Read more >
Tags: food, grinda, nobel museum, old town, stockholm, stockholm archipelago, vasa museum
SWEDEN | Saturday, 8 Sep 2018 | Photo Gallery
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Back in the day, as in the 16th Century, capitals weren’t stationary cities where the business of the country happened, but rather wherever the monarch happened to be. In those days Sweden’s kings spent considerable time in Kalmar, which ... Read more >
Tags: food, kalmar, kalmar castle, kalmar county museum, kronan, scandinavian prices
DENMARK | Saturday, 25 Aug 2018 | Photo Gallery
Aeroskobing
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DENMARK | Saturday, 25 Aug 2018 | Views [311]
A couple train rides and a ferry away from Copenhagen is the Danish village of Aeroskobing on the island of Aero. Fires seem to have been common in the 17th century (and earlier). Aeroskobing was no an exception; all of the village but two houses burned ... Read more >
Tags: aeroskobing, beach, bicycling
DENMARK | Monday, 20 Aug 2018 | Photo Gallery
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Like all cities there are certain similarities wherever they are; the hustle and bustle of daily life as thousands of people go about their business, even as you set out to explore the place with new eyes. In Copenhagen I learned to look left and right ... Read more >
Tags: botanical gardens, christansborg, church of our savior, city walking tour, food, national museum, reffen, rosenborg