July 23 Edinburgh and York We left Edinburgh around 10:30 this morning on a train bound for York, England. The ride was relaxing with some beautiful views of the English and Scottish North Sea coast. We arrived in York about 1:30 and got to our hotel about 2:00. Our room wasn't ready yet, so we put our luggage in a locker and headed into the city. We grabbed a quick lunch from Tesco Express and went straight to the York Minster. The York Minster is a big i...

July 22. Rainy and cold Edinburgh To make sure I had clean clothes until the end of the trip, I made an early run to the laundromat. One less thing to worry about! While I was at the laundromat, Ellie slept and (slowly) got ready. By the time I got back we were both ready to go. We have been traveling for over two weeks and we have had very little rain or cold. That changed today. There was a steady downpour all day long and it even got a little cold by...

July 21. Bergen to Edinburgh, Scotland. We got going early to the Bergen airport. We made sure we had time to stop at our favorite convienience store/ cafe, Deli Di Luca, and get some coffee and treats for breakfast. We also had to say goodbye to our favorite Deli Di Luca manager, Joaquim. He is a credit to his store. We had a 10:15 flight to Oslo. We then had to wait a couple of hours in Oslo for our respective planes to take off. Thankfully all of our l...

July 20th. Bergen We spent the day in Bergen. In planning for this trip we expected this leg to be the cold and rainy one. We brought warm clothes and rain jackets expecting terrible weather. It was in the mid-70s and sunny today. We were almost too hot?!!?? The weather did make for a good day to walk around this beautiful city. We booked a walking tour through the old German quarter of Bryggen. The tour included entrances to a three museums and a walk...

July 19th. Bergen Ellie pointed out that near one of the towns we passed through on our train to Bergen, Finse, the battle of Hoth was filmed in The Empire Strikes Back. Bergen has an average of 80 sunny days a year, the rest of the year there is some sort of precipitation. According to the weather app, we are going to experience two of those sunny days. (Yeah!) After the rush of the last two days, we all needed to sleep in a little this morning (Ellie reall...