We selected Monday to visit Keukenhof, the world’s largest bulb garden, because its website says Monday is usually the least…
Google maps is now our sworn enemy: and normally on vacation overseas, we don’t use it because it sucks. For…
Winter descendeth upon western Europe again: overnight, there will be 10cm of snow in areas of the Netherlands north of…
Bicycles: they are everywhere. Bicyclists seem to be a good deal more tame than those at home, and by that…
Dawn of the second day of Europe trip: the night of the worst sleep. I was naturally up at 4:30…
After attempting (and failing) to go on this trip to the Netherlands and Belgium last December (stupid rona), the Nethergium…
Time for my favorite portion of any trip to a mountainous country: hauling my pitiful flatlander legs up a mountain…
When we were in Ireland, the seven person people mover van we drove had some amazing automatic wipers. I never…
Nothing can keep us from whales, nothing! Unless the car breaks down again! And then I’ll give up! We set…
Our home base for the northern portion of our trip is in Akureryi – just an hour west of Myvatn…









