Category Europe
Copenhagen, Part Six
10/5-10/14 Our final day in Copenhagen would be a busy one. We’d watched the weather forecasts carefully and aware that rain was on its way scheduled outdoor activities for Sunday (Boat Tour) and Monday (Cemetery and Christiania) leaving a couple of indoor options for a rainy Tuesday. Once again, Bev and I made our way […]
Copenhagen, Part Five
10/5-10/14 Monday would be another day in Copenhagen with a Simone and Dillon as our tour guides. We took our usual train into Norreport Station, then the number 5 bus into Norrebro to a stop almost directly across from our first visit of the day, Copenhagen’s Assistens Cemetery. We’d intended to look for a […]
Copenhagen, Part Four
10/5-10/14 We arrived back in Copenhagen by early afternoon and bade Simone and Dillon farewell until later that day when we would meet them for dinner back in town. Bev and I took the train back out to Vedbaek and settled in for a relaxing afternoon by ourselves as Maria and Gorm had accompanied the […]
Copenhagen, Part Three
10/5-10/14 Our plans for an early start were sidetracked as we all slept in pretty late, given our post midnight bedtime the night before and the long tiring day that preceded it. Bev’s knock on or door roused Francois and I around 9am and within a short time, we’d showered, dressed and prepared for another […]
Copenhagen, Part Two
10/5-10/14 Maria gave Bev and I a ride to the Vedbaek train station making our trip to the Copenhagen airport simpler than if we’d walked down to the take the bus. Simone and Dillon were to meet us at the airport and while we waited for them there, we each got a bite to eat, […]
Copenhagen, Part One
10/5-10/14 This trip all started during a phone call with my sister Bev one-day last spring. She mentioned that she planned to travel to Copenhagen in the fall to spend time with her son Dillon. He has been living there since the middle of last year, and she had flown there for a night during […]
How English took over the world – From The Week
This brief article from the current issue of The Week bolsters my contention that we found English to be much more prevalent last year in Europe than in prior trips. John McWhorter The Wall Street Journal The future belongs to the English language, said John McWhorter. English is rapidly becoming what the creators of Esperanto […]
2014 in review – Thanks to All of You Who Helped to Make My Blog a Success
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
Europe 2014 – A Summary – Part Three
The bottom line is that this wasn’t a low cost endeavor, even though we camped and from time to time stayed with folks we know. I maintained a daily log of our expenses broken down into seven categories; Lodging, Food, Culture (museums, entrance fees, concerts, etc.), Miscellaneous, Public Transportation and Parking, Tolls, and Gas. Cash […]
Europe 2014 – A Summary – Part Two
So what exactly does it take on the expense side to travel for nearly six months in Europe? A big chunk of the cost is getting there and back and providing for transportation, a bit of which I’ve examined an earlier post. What follows in the next two posts is the complete breakdown. Pre-Trip Expenses […]
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