Summer of Slow Travel

We walked to Schlinder’s Factory today.   They have turned the factory into a multi-media museum about the Polish experience during WW2..with an emphasis on the Jewish tragedy, but keeping it in context.   It was amazing — they did not allow photography…which didn’t let me step away from my…

i love these two pictures from inside churches       Nap tim.

We had a cold but fun day today. In and out of several churches .  The layers of history and spirituality make churches my favorite part of Europe.     Kraków was a walled city..when they tore down the wall and moat they made a walking park that rings the entire old…

  We left  our house at 1030 on Thursday.   Got to Hotel Grodek at 3pm on Friday.    And Kraków is beautiful..  Here is a quick overview of what we will be seeing tomorrow.        Whoops, Max just feel asleep with his iPad on his chest…guess it is lights…

Maxandbarb are off to Kraków then Prague next week.  This time we are going with besties Matt and Maria.   Stay tuned for pictures of the journey.

Our last day in Iceland. We splurged last night and stayed in a magnificent hotel. The original owner collected are which is hanging all over the hotel. It was such a pleasure to be there, though interestingly enough on a trip where we have met very few Americans, that is…

Stykkisholmur was just beautiful. Again you can feel geology happening. Surrounding it they say there are 2500 little islands–about–depending on if the tide is in or out. Here you can see some of them. Oh—this is a small town–someone told the owner of the hotel that we had taken a…

We woke up to a beautiful day here. Decided to go to Helgafell, which was a sacred mount in the pagan days, and now they say if you walk up it without saying word you can get 3 wishes…you also get a ton of great photos. We are both amazed…

Ok. I have to be honest. I am currently drunk blogging. I will do the best I can, but probably no Icelandic names as those are hard sober. We are on this adorable fishing town And we stopped at this lovely cafe for a drink and mussles. And the lovely…

We drove out to the end of the fjord (I just love the sound of that) And in memory of Mom, and all the pictures of our relatives with their feet in the Pacific Ocean– here I am on the Artic Ocean!! We explored more of Akureyi. This church was…