Last of the three Baltic republics and home to one of Michele’s ancestors, Lithuania was high on my must-see list, and it didn’t...

Greetings from Gotland, a large but lightly populated island off the Swedish coast. Only 61,000 people live here year round (there are...

A rare second day in the same port, and we decided not to book an excursion. Rather, we chose to make the 45 minute walk from the pier...

Let’s start today with a cool factoid. Did you know that Stockholm is located in an archipelago of more than 34,000 islands? Yep, and...

If it’s Saturday this must be Finland. We’re on a string of seventeen straight port days without a sea day to catch our breath, quite a...

Greetings from Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, the second of the three tiny Baltic republics we’ve visited so far. 461,000 people...

Greetings from Riga, the capital of Latvia, one of the three Baltic republics that regained their independence when the Soviet Union...

Greetings from country number 53 on our world odyssey. This morning we docked in Warnemünde, the closest Baltic port to Berlin, and...

And just like that, 65,000 miles later, we’re in Scandinavia. We still have 10,000 miles and six weeks left to go, but somehow arriving...

Greetings from Flanders, the Flemish (basically Dutch) speaking region of Belgium. French and German are also official languages in this...

What fun, and what an opportunity. Yesterday we toured the French royal palace at Versailles, and just a day later here we were in merry...

Today we bid adieu to France with a visit to the Palace of Versailles, the residence of the last French kings and their seat of power...

As a history buff I’ve read many accounts of the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings, and of the battles that took place over the days and weeks...

Greetings from Cherbourg. Earlier we visited Nice and Cannes in the Mediterranean, and now we’re exploring France’s Atlantic coast, and...

Ireland! The Emerald Isle is the fiftieth country on our once in a lifetime adventure, and we’re docked, of all places, at Cobh...

Today we said goodbye to the Iberian Peninsula with a stop in Vigo, a city of 300,000 in Spain’s extreme northwest corner. We spent the...

Today we wrapped up our two day visit to Portugal with a stop in Porto, the nation’s second largest city, where my goal was to find out...

I’ve always been intrigued by Portugal, don’t ask me why, but today I finally got to see a little bit of it in person. Lisbon, where we...

Today we said goodbye to Africa, and Africa delivered quite a sendoff. The port of call was Agadir, in southern Morocco, a city of half a...

After a month exploring European ports in the Mediterranean Sea we’re back out in the Atlantic Ocean and making a two-day encore visit to...