My football pub watching experience last night was a success. Manchester City won 1-0 and I chatted with the two other City fans in the pub (the rest where watching the Liverpool match on at the same time). When I mentioned that I was from MInneapolis, one of them immediately brought up Prince. He was a big Prince fan. I also put two bets on the match, one that City would tie and one that they would lose. I figured no matter what happened I would get someth...

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...