Helsinki Is In Love With the Letter K!
Ever notice just how many letter K’s are used in many Finnish words? LOTS. And let’s not even count the umlauts and other circly things over Finnish letters. It’s mainly…
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On Our Way to Stockholm!
After squeezing all we could from Copenhagen, we headed to our next stop in Stockholm – capital of the Swedish realm. The train to Stockholm is around 5 hours which…
Last Day in Munich
As this is a super quick trip through Bavaria and Switzerland we had only one last day to see a couple more sights. The museum scene in Munich is fairly…
Duomo Firenze
This must be one of the most beautiful buildings on earth from the outside. It is simply stunning. Just look. It didn’t matter from which direction you looked at it…
St. Mark’s Basilica
This is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture. It lies at the eastern end of the Piazza San Marco,…
Basilica Santa Maria del Mar
This cathedral was built between 1329 and 1383 at the height of Catalonia’s maritime and mercantile preeminence, but a church has been on this site since 998 – over 1,000…
La Sagrada Familia
What an incredible place this is. From the outside it is a construction zone as work began on La Sagrada Familia in 1882 and only reached the midpoint in 2010,…
Montmartre
After our zip up the Eiffel Tower we went back into the Metro to go across Paris to Montmartre. This used to be the mythical Paris that everyone imagined when…
St. Sulpice
Not in any guideboks but St. Sulpice is one of the most beautiful squares in all of Paris. It’s also the place I used to call home when I was…
Notre Dame
Second day in a row of a venue that had stair climbing. This one Jeff did on his own because the rest of us had feet that would no longer…