When you walk into the Vasa Museet in Stockholm, you’re immediately in awe of the massive wooden ship that stands before you. The whole building of the museum is built around the enormous vessel, and the lighting is dim and dramatic to perserve this delicate giant. Right after we played around at the Junibacken, the […]

Copenhagen’s most famous statue, The Little Mermaid, turns 100 today. Happy birthday, Little Mermaid! Or should I say: Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Den Lille Havfrue! This symbol of Copenhagen – the famous character from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale –  doesn’t look a day over 25. I must confess, I only saw the back of her […]

When you visit a city as cool as Copenhagen, it’s only natural that you fantasize about living there. And when you rent an apartment for a few days in a cool residential area like we did, you can come as close to that fantasy as possible without making a big life change. We really enjoyed […]

Athletes train for years to get into the Olympics, and travelers plan for years to attend the Olympics. But frequent guest blogger Jill Martin Wrenn decided to make a trip from Atlanta to London to see the Olympics when they were already in progress! This is an even more impressive feat than braving Disney World […]

I’ve taken a cruise around New York City a couple of times, but never with a group of clad in dirndls and lederhosen. I’ve been helping with the Austria Tourist Office’s #dirndlNYC campaign, and they invited me to accompany the Dirndl Ambassadors on a Circle Line Cruise. It was a fun-filled summer evening. To see […]

The downsides to traveling with a toddler are numerous (beginning with waking up too early in the morning and ending with not being able to explore the nightlife) but there are plenty of upsides too. If we didn’t have a toddler in tow, we would have totally missed out on what turned out to be […]

A funny thing happened on my way to Fotografiska in Stockholm. The funny thing is that I never made it to the famous photography museum, but I was OK with that — unusual for a Type A traveler such as myself. Not that I always make it to every attraction I want to see (far from […]

When you board an international flight, it’s so disappointing to see those little screens hanging from the ceiling. The fantasy of watching two or three great movies on the plane is quickly shattered because even if they were showing something good, you could barely see it. Even if you see those back-of-the-seat screen, you still […]

Blame it on those Molson commercials, but I think of beer whenever I think of Canada and alcohol. And blame it on Canada’s long cold, winters, but I also think of ice wine, a sweet wine that is made from grapes frozen on the vine. Well, Canada is also cocktail country, and the Consulate General […]

Canada Day may not be the most popular holiday in New York City, but some prominent Canadians are looking to change that — or at the very least make sure that New Yorkers understand why the Empire State Building will be lit up in red and white for three nights. Last Tuesday, the Consulate General […]