A Large Wooden Warship, the Frigate Jylland in Ebeltoft, Denmark
My cousins listed a number of sights we had to see if we went to Aarhus and one of them was the Frigate Jylland in Ebeltoft. Built to fight maritime battles […]
Category Archives: Europe
Tracking Down the Past: Making Ice Cream (Denmark & Vancouver)
In 2018 Al & I headed to Denmark and Sweden with the idea of meeting up with my aunts and uncles and cousins, and also to track down some of […]
Conwy Castle and its Medieval Town Walls in Wales
Conwy Castle, where you can walk along some of the best-preserved medieval town walls in Europe and admire the views of the town and water. Our first view of Conwy […]
Best Food (and Drink) in Ireland
Google ‘best pubs in Ireland’ and you get a LOT of pubs – in fact, just in Dublin alone there are more than 800 of them. On the other hand, google ‘best […]
Nobody Does Orange like Denmark
In the April of 2018 I went to Mexico and posted a lot of photos featuring orange Mexican walls. In response to a comment on that post I wrote “Mexico […]
Tanum, a Bronze Age Petroglyph UNESCO Site in Sweden
Tanum, a UNESCO World Heritage Rock Art Centre, is famous for its petroglyphs put there 3500 years ago by the Bronze Age people who lived in this area of northern […]
A Collection of Reflections from Denmark
A collection of reflections from Denmark. Our first day in Denmark with a reflection of the long Nordic dusk of late May. A stream leading to an old church in […]
Art Unexpected: Driftwood
My dad used to take us kids wandering along the beaches of the Pacific West Coast where there was driftwood galore. Every often he’d find something the reminded him of […]
Canalboats in the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales
The landlady at our B&B told us we had to go to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and see the canal boats running through it. She was a teacher and had at […]
Leading Lines in Ireland
For some reason the only photos with leading lines that I could find were all from Ireland. Here, then, in order of appearance, are a group of leading lines from […]
