May Day in Turku is quite a big deal, they celebrate workers rights of course but also the students. On the night before thousands of people assemble near the square and all put their university caps on at exactly 6pm. To quote the students web page: MAY DAY IS COMING (or did it ever leave..?)…

We had to get the bus from Stockholm central at 6:30 am which would have been no problem if we hadn’t slept through Paulines alarm at 5:45. Luckily I woke up at 6:07 and we just made it. The Viking Lines ferry “Grace” is absolutely enormous, we had a nice cabin and the cost was…

The e-ferrys Aurora and Tycho Brahe are huge, they plug in automatically at each end and charge while disembarking passengers and vehicles. We stayed on board for a few crossings and had our lunch there, very pleasant, a lot of people do the same as there’s a large duty free shop on board. Next day,…

Today we took the train to Roskilde, which is about twenty minutes away from Copenhagen, to the Viking Ship Museum where they are building Viking ships using experimental archeology. They have five wrecks that were sunk a thousand years ago to be used as a blockade of the port, and they are building replicas using…

Today was a bit experimental as Pauline wasn’t sure about all the links, for example according to google there was no bus on the island of ærø so we thought we might have to hitch a ride. Anyway we took the bus from Flensburg to Fynshav in Denmark as that’s where Ellen the E-ferry leaves…

Flensburg turned out to be a delightful place to stay, there’s a historic walk called the “captains walk” which takes you around some of the older houses some of which were possibly built for actual captains back in the day. There’s also a museum for classic sailing merchant vessels, and classic yachts, as well as…

The train to Brussels took a few hours, but it seemed longer because a lady across the aisle from us was talking loudly to all her friends on her cell phone until finally someone told her off. Noise canceling headphones to the rescue! Thursday we had a nice day in Brussels, wandering about the Grand-Place…