The Tallink Silja ferry trip from Helsinki to Tallinn was 2 hours. The ferry was more like a cruise ship than a “ferry”. It had restaurants, casino, premier lounges, and room for over 2800 people and many cars and trucks. It is a busy port with 3 different ferry companies, and 5 Baltic routes to …
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Helsinki
It was a short afternoon flight to reach Helsinki. One of the things we’re constantly amazed by is not having to show a passport when flying between EU countries. Just show your boarding pass and on you go. And then you’re there wherever it is you’re heading to- in a few short hours. It seemed …
Copenhagen- beautiful and intriguing
It was a little hard to leave the beauty of north Denmark, and it seemed that most of Denmark was traveling south to Copenhagen with us on the train. Just before our train change in Aalborg, the conductor told us that our connecting train was cancelled. Instead we would wait an hour and hope for …
Walking the north coast of Denmark : pt 3 Skagen
Hotel Inger gave us a hearty Danish breakfast to fuel our 8-9 mile day. The town of Hulsig (pronounced Hulsee) is very small so it was easy to find the trail near the train stop. The trail followed a bike path and then left the forest to wind through the dunes again. Our legs were …
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Walking the north coast of Denmark pt 2
The second day of our North Coast Trail walking was warmer with varied terrain at every turn. We had about 17 miles to walk, so we planned to have a swim somewhere along the way. Eventually this stairway appeared, leading the way to the long flat beach. It was cooler with every step. Will and …
Walking the north coast of Denmark
After an amazing week on Texel, Will and I headed to Denmark. I’d found a self-guided walk through Wild Rover Travel along the north Denmark coast from Hirtshals to Skagen over 3 days. We had an afternoon in Aalborg, Denmark’s 4th largest city, after a short flight from Amsterdam. Will went off the explore the …
Camino Week 2
This week was as scenic as the first and much hillier overall. My legs weren’t so tired at the end of the day, so I could do some exploring after I reached my hotel(s).I had a couple more mornings of beautiful seascapes before the route left the coast and turns inland. Galicia is the green …
The Portuguese Coastal Camino: week 1
The arrow and the shell are the route signs to look for when walking the Camino. There are quite a few Camino routes to walk to arrive at Santiago de Compostela in Spain. After reading about some of them, I chose to walk the Portuguese Coastal Camino. I liked the idea of a relatively flat …
Porto, Portugal
I had 2 days in Porto before beginning the Portuguese Coastal Camino. Besides sightseeing, there were 2 things I needed to do: get my Pilgrim “passport” for the Camino at the Catedral do Porto and figure out my bus route out to the coastal edge of the city to start my walk. There wasn’t really …
Workaway in Germany
When I started looking at Workaway listings, I stumbled on listings for helping in monasteries or convents for nuns. I wrote to a few, and was happy to be invited to go to help at one a few hours’ train ride from Berlin in the countryside. The community of sisters are from several different countries, …
Birdgirl’s travels 