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Stockholm, travel fashion girls and Rick Steves
I hope you don’t mind a few more tales of our Scandi trip from this summer. I’d like to share the last bits with you before I head off to eastern Europe next month.. We spent a lovely day in Stockholm, buying a bus/tram pass for the first time on this trip. First stop was the Gamla Stan, or Old Town. Not many tourists around, mostly locals on their morning commutes. We had a wander to ourselves, then found ourselves by the residence of the royal family. We enjoyed an afternoon pizza snack, and explored an incredible food hall. The legendary “kanelbullar”, Swedish cinnamon buns, were every bit as good…
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Tell Me About….My Hometown
Our bloggers group prompt this month is to write about our hometowns (or home towns, depending on where you live…) I’m delighted to write about my town, as I’m so proud of it! My hometown is Versailles, Kentucky. And no, not like the Palace of Versailles in France – we pronounce it VER-sales. Yup. Before you snicker, I ask you, do you call the French capital PAIR-iss, or pear-EE?!?!? Do you say “Vee-EH-nah”, or “VEEN” like the locals would? My point is – you don’t pronounce places like the people who live there do, either! The “dad joke” here is “Our town was founded in 1792, and the French have…
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Bourbon, sunshine and rock n’ roll
The 3 Musketeers go to an outdoor music and bourbon festival
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Tallinn, toiletries and duffel bags
A day spent in Tallinn, and packing talk
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Riga, packing cubes, and is it an airport or a shopping mall?
I never dreamed I’d visit any of the Baltic countries, but the capital of Latvia was the next stop on our cruise. Riga was full of old-world charm, and we made a short walk from where our ship docked into the Old Town. Our first stop was at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, which documents the 55 years of the 20th c. when Latvia was occupied twice by the Soviet Union, and by the Nazis in between. Much like the House of Terror in Budapest that I visited in 2021, this recently-renovated and now state-of-the-art museum makes sure no visitor will have any doubts as to the brutality…
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Tell me about…Imagination!
What creatures of summer stir the imagination?
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A fairytale island, life on board ship, and packing talk
Notes from our Baltic cruise
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What’s keeping me entertained these days
End of month roundup on what I've been watching, reading and listening to.
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Copenhagen
A whirlwind tour of Copenhagen and the start of our summer trip to Scandinavia and the Baltics
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Tell me about….TRAVEL!
My blogger writing group prompt this month is Travel, which is a) one of my favorite things b) one of the main subjects of this blog and c) particularly timely, as I just got back from a 2-week trip to Europe. I have several blog posts on that trip already planned, but I’ll include a few tidbits from that trip in this post. I’ve been a travel addict from a young age. My family and I took a trip to the beach every other year. It took us 2 years to save up for that week. Growing up in a land-locked state (Kentucky), the ocean was utterly magical, and I…
