While on the cruise, I went to two shore tours on our ports of call, Cozumel and Progresso. From Cozumel we went on a tour…
S and I went on a Caribbean cruise by Carnival Cruises. Our ship was named Ecstasy. The ship sailed from Galveston TX, to Cozumel and…
After walking around in Boston old town, my friend D and I took the subway to Cambridge, and roamed around the Harvard campus. The Matthews…
Walking around Boston, I finally felt like I was in a proper Old Town, or even in a proper city — a feeling that I…
In July 2006 I visited my old friends D and her husband R, who live in a suburb of Boston in Massachusets. I did a…
This post contains pictures of random details of Swedish everyday life that were, if not unusual, then at least different than what you see in…
In 2006, magenta hair was pretty rare in the United States. It took another 5-10 years for everybody to start dyeing their hair in “fashion…
While visiting my friend in Stockholm, we went to see the Gripsholm castle, which is in a town of Mariefred, a relatively short train ride…
These are signs I saw in Stockholm that make multilingual puns, with the exception of one at the bottom that’s memorable for other reasons. They…
The Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm is kind of like a historic theme park that shows how life in Sweden looked before the historical era.…