Save $100 a day with these ski day lunches
I broke one of my top skiing rules recently: I showed up at the mountain with NO food. No lunch, no snacks. And sure enough, …
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Oslo’s sauna boats let you swim in the fjord without the chill
Exhilaration zips through you when leave the hot sauna and plunge into the cold water of Oslofjord. To me, the first moment of immersion felt …
Your Norway travel guide: Fjords, cruises, saunas, trains
Norway tends to get overlooked when people make travel plans to Europe. This is wonderful! It means that while you’re jumping from a sauna into …
Flåm, Norway: Tourist trap or must-visit destination?
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Step-by-step guide to DIY your Norway in a Nutshell itinerary and save money
It happened as we were about to start the most iconic part of the Norway in a Nutshell itinerary. We were standing by the train …
We picked up garbage on Copenhagen’s canal — and loved it
After about 10 minutes of fruitlessly paddling Copenhagen’s pristine canal, my son and I finally spotted our first piece of trash. “Over there! An empty …
Take the overnight ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo!
I was journaling away on the overnight ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo, an aperol spritz sweating on my table, and the Danish coast gliding by …
How to go from Paris to Copenhagen by train
When I brought my senior citizen parents to Europe, they wanted to travel by train as much as possible. But when we needed to get …
How to take a multigenerational trip to Paris
Have you seen the meme with the elderly couple snoring, open mouthed, on a Venice gondola? One of the cruel ironies of life is that …
Is Disneyland Paris worth a day trip from Paris?
We sipped soup from an authentic tureen in a pretend Parisian bistrot. We heard “It’s a Small World” in French and in English. We compared …