Today I walked from our hotel down and and then up these 23 flights of stairs along the waterfall to walk around the little town and along the waterfront, a great way to start the morning knowing I could have dessert tonight due to all the walking and using a natural stair master. Before lunch we boarded the bus to drive up the mountain on a road that was just finished in 1948 along 11 hairpin turns to go to a goat farm that is on the UNESCO list, learned how to...

From Fjell to Fjord Today we traveled along the roof of Norway as we experience snow capped peaks, glaciers, emerald lakes, blue ice and the most spectacular scenery we've had yet. We stopped first in the city of Lom where we saw another Stave Church, visited a hand crafted store, an open air museum and walked along a wooden bridge to enjoy the scenery. Next we stopped at a Dutch couples inn for some good homemade soup, view of a waterfall, and delightful visi...

Today is our first official day in Norway. Leaving the ferry we boarded a coach bound for ski country. We all noted that the scenery seemed so pristine and all the rural building clean and painted, like an advertisement. The spring thaw has created many scenic waterfalls. We stopped in Lillehammer which hosted the 1994 Olympics. First we visited Maihaugen. This open air folk museum has over 200 original buildings to trace Norway's every day life from the Middle...

This is our last day in Copenhagen and we headed to Amager, an island where the soil was so good that farming flourished, however Copenhagen needed an airport so a great part of farm country is gone. We learned today that cars are highly taxed (luxury item) so you see many small cars here as the tax is only 1 1/2 times the price of the car as the larger cars pay 2-3 times more. Most cars get 45-60 mph and there is no tax on gas. Sales tax on other items is 25%. ...

Today we had many "I can see Sweden from my bus" moments as we traveled north of Copenhagen to Zealand. We visited the home of Karen Blixen (Out of Africa), saw the changing of the guard at Queen Margaret II summer home, ate open face egg and shrimp sandwiches on dark rye bread, sipped Gammel Dansk (a Danish liqueur favored with 29 herbs, spices, and flowers, which would make cough medicine taste good), walked the cobblestone streets in many small villages and sa...