With our approximately one-and-a-half free days before our return flight from Hannover, we decided to dive-bomb tourist Amsterdam.  We were “close” (in the sense that, say, Detroit is “close” to Chicago), so we decided to go for it.  We had heard a lot about how lovely the city is, and we wanted to be able to chalk up one more country while we were abroad.  And what the hey, it’s just more time on the train.  ;-)  Here’s part 3 of our Continental Whirlwind Tour: more…

Following our time in Wiesbaden, we headed on to DFDF for some relaxing music.  Here’s part 2 of our Continental Whirlwind Tour: more…

In our ongoing efforts to stay terribly behind on the travel blog, I started writing this on the train to Scotland and finished it in the Youth Hostel in Kirkwall on Orkney, about a trip that happened… Going on a month ago, now.  startled Woo — the slipperiness of time…

So this all ended up a bit long (because I’m uncontrollably verbose), so I’m cutting it into three parts.  Here’s part 1:
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One of the many “back blogs” that we’ve been queuing up to post…  Again, a bit of history, but mostly pix… more…