Before we were jubilados (Spanish for retirees) we holidayed in France, Greece, Italy and Great Britain so now we’re visiting other countries.
What they say about Iceland is true. Sheep outnumber people two-to-one. Iceland’s sheep, brought to the island by the Vikings late in the ninth century
Was being born in the Year of the Ox why I wanted to return to the velvet-brown mountains of Dovre, the only place in Norway
The upswing of our trip to Iceland last year (our first international trip after the Covid lockdown) was arriving in August on the first day
If you turn off the Golden Circle Road in southern Iceland a few hours east of Reykjavik, you will arrive at two waterfalls tucked into
It isn’t often we misjudge a hiking trail and give up on it. And we certainly didn’t expect that on Dronningruta, a hike Queen Sonja of Norway
In my mind’s library of favourite places we’ve stayed, The Old Bookstore in Iceland is a classic, an original that sparks deeper appreciation every time I
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