We’ve been in Edinburgh for the last month. We came here for the month long Fringe Festival which has comedians and other acts perform all over the city. We spent the first two weeks taking it easy and seeing a couple of shows each night or some sightseeing. I even joined the local pool and […]
Nature
Fjords Galore in Western Norway
So after our trip to the High Arctic we headed back to mainland Norway, to the town of Tromso. From there we caught a Hurtigruten boat to take us down the coast to Bergen. The Hurtigruten ships started out as mail delivery ships a bit over 100 years ago, sailing up and down the Norwegian […]
Up in the High Arctic
It was a bit of a last minute decision that we decided to go to Norway but when we saw a trip advertised for Svalbard for what seemed like a reasonable price so we jumped on it. Svalbard is a group of islands way up north in the high Arctic, it’s about as far north […]
A Short Detour Through Montenegro and Bosnia & Hercegovina
Since we were down in Dubrovnik we thought we’d take a short trip to Montenegro and Bosnia & Hercegovina since there’s some cool stuff nearby. First stop was the town of Kotor in the Bay of Kotor. The naming’s not super-original but a bit more thought went into it than ‘Townsville’. The bay itself is […]
Cruising Along the Croatian Coastline
Since the last update we’ve been travelling along the Croatian coastline and checking out old towns like Split and Sibenik and attempting to get fitter by riding bikes up mountains on Hvar. Hvar is a lovely island in the Adriatic Sea with bright white limestone shores, lush green pine trees and beautiful blue water. But […]
