Europe, Italy, Travel & Adventure

Italy – Rome (2)

Pizza, pasta, beer, pizza, wine, calzone and pizza.. what’s not to love 🙂 Nan & Pop arrived in time for lunch (pizza and beer) and so kept it simple and walked past the forum down to colosseum and back around to capitol hill.  Walked on set with Inspector Rex –…

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Europe, Italy, Travel & Adventure

Italy – Rome (1)

Going to spend a week in Italy.  Plan to start in Rome and move up north to end in Venice.  Grandparents have tagged along for the ride – should be interesting! We had an adventure just getting here.  Forgot to book the car (mini-cab in English terms..) to the airport…

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Europe, Sweden, Travel & Adventure

Weekend in Stockholm

High prices, ordinary weather, reasonable sights.. wouldn’t recommend anyone rush to Stockholm anytime soon.  Nice enough place but not really enough to keep you there too long.  Vasa museum was cool enough and the ice bar was a novelty.  The guys from H&M saved the day though!!!

Europe, Germany, Travel & Adventure

Oktoberfest!!!

The greatest festival ever!! (excepting Carnival perhaps..?) Non-stop beer, meat and silly folk music! We survived Munich relatively unscathed.  Met a bunch of friendly Austrians who kindly gave up two seats at their table – thinking Jess’s friend was another girl.  No matter – lot’s of dancing on tables, falling…

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Iceberg beach
Chile, South America, Travel & Adventure

W – Day 4

Another night spent listening to the groans and creaks of a glacier, although this time we also had the gentle lapping of the lakeside to mix in.  Sure beats listening to traffic driving past and construction workers in a battle with your alarm clock to see who can annoy you…

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