ALASTAIR + LALEINIA

We kicked off our seven (yes, SEVEN) week vacation with an early flight to Copenhagen. Non-eventful, until we got on the train to take us into the city, where Emre turned into a monster! After doing so in Barcelona, he wanted to "drive" the automated train and ended up kicking daddy where it hurts in front of a trainful of people! Not a great way to start! Anyways, throughout the rest of the first leg of the trip Emre alternated from behaving really well to being really difficult! Kids! Laleinia and I both really loved Copenhagen. It is very calm, quite beautiful, and without anything super exciting it is just really nice. We really enjoyed Nyhavn and the Church of our Lady, which were the highlights, along with the national museum, but other than that we spent a lot of time wandering around as we usually do. We visited Church of our Lady twice. It is such a beautiful and simple church which contains the Christus and statues of the twelve apostles. Really beau...

We arrived in Oslo by an overnight ferry; great value for money since you get travel and a bed for the night for one price. We would be flying out of Oslo later that afternoon, so we decided to walk around semi-aimlessly and get a feel for the city. Oslo was wet and slippery! There was a fine rain coming down the whole time we were there. To be fair, nothing really stood out in Oslo, but it was a really nice place. I'd consider living there one day. It's another place I'd like to take Lain. We stopped by the Google office for lunch, which was really good, before heading up to the airport for our flight to Tromsø. I think that Tromsø was the part of the trip that I was looking forward to the most. It is over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, would be experiencing Polar Night while we were there (sun doesn't rise the whole time we are there), and it also happens to be one of the best places on earth to see the Northern Lights!  We were there for two...