On Saturday morning, Sarah and I took a regional train (my favourite kind, really) from Madrid to Segovia and checked into the Pension Ferri, a guesthouse in a tiny alleyway off the town’s central plaza. Being an old stone building, the guesthouse was surprisingly cool, despite the heat outside. The owner gave us a price [...]
I arrived in Barcelona well fed, well rested and ready to take on Spain – or should I say, Catalonia. One of the first things I noticed on the metro ride from the port to my hostel is that all of the public announcements are in three languages – Catalan first, Castilian second, and then [...]
After four nights in Rome I decided that I should perhaps move on before my rail pass is entirely spent. Barcelona is my destination, although my plan involved crossing the south of France by rail in order to get there. Unfortunately, however, the rail routes between northern Italy and Barcelona are entirely booked for [...]
On Thursday, Jen and I took the train to Rome. I’ve been waiting my entire life to get here.
It’s time for me to give up this life of crime and settle down. I’m going to find some legal way to finance an apartment above some boutique on the Via della Corso, and spend my days [...]
Today Jen and I drove first to Montefalco, the town that produces Umbria’s finest wine, and then to Bavagna, a little medieval town with a monastery wherein Jen spent a few days earlier in the week. Lunch was at a wine bar in Montefalco’s central piazza: primi, a rustic polenta with Gorgonzola and sausage, and [...]
Travelling some three thousand kilometres south has brought, rather expectedly, a change in weather. It’s mostly sunny, with brief, warm storms.
Also, I have a replacement camera! Yay!
Good food, friendly locals speaking a language that I almost understand, sunshine, vistas over patchwork fields, cobbled streets filled with nuns. This is Assisi, Umbria. It’s hot. I love it. I’ve spent the afternoon wandering up and down the hill gathering picnic ingredients for tonight’s dinner with Jen and Jo. I have baby tomatoes, fresh [...]
Finally got the chance for a shower, sunshine and free wifi. Uploaded some of Stefan’s Kebnekaise photos:
The entire Kebnekaise set is here. Before that, there is a Kluntana set, the last taken with my camera before it broke.
I’m in Oslo for a few hours. Flying [...]
From Kiruna, we took one of Scandinavia’s prettiest train routes across northern Sweden and into Narvik, Norway. Narvik would actually be a cute town, bounded on one side by a fjord and on the others by snow-capped mountains, were it not for the fact that it has an industrial estate instead of a centre. We [...]
In which our heroes conquer Sweden’s highest peak and get rather cold.
After a shortish train ride to Kiruna, and a damp night of camping in the rain, we wandered into the tourist information centre to see what there was to actually do in the Arctic. Turns out we were only about 100km from the base [...]