Sunday June 1: Macchiato & croissant at Saraghina just around the corner on Halsey at Lewis. Then, the A train into NoLiTa Manhattan, met...

H&J took us to the airport for our 10:45 flight to Oslo. Flight was uneventful… Eight hours in Oslo. Crammed the bags in 2 lockers & took...

Still more around town. Covered it pretty well: The coastal steamer consists of two boats: northbound & southbound. They meet in the...

A week bumming around Trondheim & environs… Jazz every Sunday PM at Ila Brainstasjon, a pub a short walk from Heidi & Jan’s: Ila...

17-Mai, as it is known, is the biggest holiday of the year in Norway. It’s the anniversary of the ratification of their constitution in...

5-day road trip to Ålesund & environs. Jan grew up there; Kai-Erik, Solveig & Sigve live there now. Day 1, stopped for lunch @ friend of...

Kicked around town over the weekend: A few of my favorite things..geitost is brown sweet goat cheese: Also, of course, although he’s nowhere near here, son #1 August, who turned 28 today. Happy Birthday August! Here he is in Río Iguazú Argentina: Xxx

As we know, little sister Heidi lives in Trondheim with her husband Jan. It’s been a while (8 years), it was time for an extended visit....

Full day on the island May 6. Morning on the Airbnb terrace: Macchiati & croissants @ the bar (substantial savings if you don’t sit...

Mon 5th: Up early, bus to Naples, dropped big bags off at a bag storage shop at the airport, pizza in town, ferry to Capri! Naples:...

Took a longer scoot, 2nd trip to Sorrento - on the north side of the peninsula - maybe 2 hours to get there. The route: down to the...

Decided to take a relatively short, morning hike. Halfway in, extended to a longer loop. Turned out to be very long, to the top of Monte...

A word on getting around on the Amalfi coast: Scooter. The road to anywhere from Agerola is down the 2000’ cliff with lots of...

There’s a town on the coast on the way to Positano, we’ve stopped there a couple times. From there there’s a trail up to the path of the...

Today we did a relatively short exploration of roads off of the Agerola road, on the cliff headed down to Amalfi. So this is, from above,...

Scooted to Pogerola, haggled a parking place with the locals, hiked to lunch in Amalfi & back. 6 miles horizontal, 1200’ vertical:...

I’m way behind - doing this post on may 3 - wi-fi was out for days grrr…so text’ll be a bit sparse… Sunrise on the terrace: The town of...

Long hike, maybe as much vertical as horizontal. Minori (on the coast) to Ravello (1200 ft up) for lunch, & back. The way up: Ravello:...

2 hour scoot over the mountain and through Castellammare to Herculaneum - a Roman city buried in the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79ad....