On Sunday morning we checked out of our hotel in Reykjavik and began the drive to the east to see more of the Icelandic coast. We drove out on Route…

Saturday morning we left Reykjavik for the first time to view the sights on the tourist loop known as the Golden Circle. About 200 miles long, the loop passes a…

For our spring trip this year we decided to visit Scandinavia, another part of the world where we haven’t spent much time. We started in chilly Iceland, arriving in the…

For the last day of our trip we took the train from Luxembourg back into Germany to visit Trier. Although a small town of only 110,000 people, Trier appeared in…

During our stay in Luxembourg, our friend Diana took us on a road trip to nearby Bernkastel-Kues in Germany. Divided by a river, the town is named similarly to Budapest,…

When planning the trip we wanted to take advantage of the fact that Cologne was near the border. Looking at the map we realized that Luxembourg was close and that…

One gray morning we took the train north to Dusseldorf. Only an hour away, the larger city didn’t have the same size of markets as Cologne, but instead had booths…

We visited three markets near our hotel in Cologne. While we did see other parts of the central part of town, our primary focus was the markets both day and…

We flew out of Seattle the day after Thanksgiving heading to Germany. We had always wanted to visit the Christmas markets and we finally got around to doing so. But…

Our final trip in Montenegro was a two-hour drive inland to the famous Ostrog Monastery. Built in the late 17th century, the monastery is dedicated to St. Basil of Ostrog,…