Overheard on the Stockholm subway
“I fly to Toronto next week. It is maybe not best for the climate but I won’t drive while I’m there so maybe that evens out?”
#swedishproblems
Back from Budapest
My husband and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in Budapest! We had a great time. Surprisingly, no virus-related problems. Flights were on time (and full), every place we wanted to go was open excluding one ruin bar because of a 100 person capacity restriction. I’ll write my observations and thoughts on Budapest later. …
Bad omen or very tired bird?
A strange thing happened to us this weekend. We left our apartment building and came back an hour later to find a very large, dead bird in the middle of our street. It was an unusual bird – a water type – that should have migrated weeks ago. It was very strange to find it …
Discount Airlines
Let me tell you a little story about a trip we took on one of these discount airlines. To protect the airlines identity, I’ll call them Lyin Air. We chose Lyin Air because we found a price to our destination that was incredibly low and because it was hard to believe anything could be that …
Volcano!!!!!
I really never thought I’d be living somewhere where a volcano could disrupt my activities. A volcano in Iceland has been spreading volcanic ash in a cloud over part of northern Europe and they have stopped all flights since Thursday. People are stranded. No one can get home. Many cancelled flights. Luckily I wasn’t travelling …