After parking we head to Kauppatori Market Square where you can buy fresh strawberries, all types of fish, shrimps, and crabs. At the market you find stands cooking up Finnish meatballs and lots of fresh fish. We stop at one of the stands and we get a meat plate full of meatballs, sausages, chicken, and garlic potatoes. We also get 2…
We arrive in Turku the oldest city in Finland. The city lies on the border of the Aura River. After parking the car, we walk down the dock enjoying the river and all the cool boats. We find a local cafe and get some coke (yum yum). Then we hike to Turin Linna castle. Founded in 1280, the castle has been…
Happy birthday Julian! We start the birthday celebration by going into Warsaw for a special stop at Mc Donald’s to get Julian’s special Birthday McMuffin. After Julian finishes his McMuffin we focus on Warsaw. In the heart of Warsaw, we find a parking space in front of the Warsaw Theater. We walked to the Royal Castle Square to…
We start the day doing laundry. First, we find a laundry mart in the center of the new part of Dresden, surrounded by Soviet era apartment buildings. After finishing our laundry, we walk over to an underground shopping mall and find a “wurst place.” We ordered some wurst and wiener schnitzel. The food is great …. nothing like wurst in Germany. Full…
We wake up to an amazingly cloudy and rainy sky. Dang….we planned on taking a scenic drive from Salzburg to Vienna. All hope is not lost, we all jump out the door and sing “rain, rain go a way come again some other day” and we look up and it just gets worse. Guess the…
In the morning we used a vagabonds trick in order to get a view of the Roman theater in Orange without paying eight euros per person 🙂 We climbed up to a park that’s overlooks the town and got an incredible view for nothing! That was pretty sweet, and smart! After our eagle eye view,…
We couldn’t quite tear ourselves away from Cataques, so we gave in and decided to spend half the day there. We went to the beach, drank coffee at local cafe’s, walked the beautiful streets and shopped!! Dad even bought a shirt with his dream car (VW camper van) painted across the front. We feasted…
It’s a longer drive then we expected but we end up in Barcelona. After parking the car close to the harbor we start walking “La Ramba”! I immediately insisted on stopping at all the jewelry. nick nack, and flower stands. Since it is Sunday we are looking for a cathedral to attend mass. Luckily Barcelona’s…
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