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On Monday, August 11th, my son and I launched my canoe on the Yukon River at Rotary Park in downtown Whitehorse, and on August 21st we reached Dawson. Just before 10:00 am we met Cathy, who had driven down from Whitehorse the previous day. This post covers the first...

This is 30th and final blog post from our 38-day tour of northern Europe (in the Post Archives, the tour posts start on June 24th, 2025). This post is for people who are passionate about travel, for people who are fascinated by airports, and in particular for window-seat junkies...

This is blog post #29 from our tour of northern Europe. We would take a tour/shuttle to Amsterdam with a 2-hour stop at Gouda, then fly to Iceland the next day, and on the third day, fly Reykjavik-Vancouver and Vancouver-Whitehorse. When I opened the curtains of our cabin on...

This is blog post #28 from our tour of northern Europe. On Friday, July 25th, we spent the day at sea, and on Saturday the 26th we docked at Dover with big plans for our final port day of the 28-cruise on the Nieuw Statendam. My sea day began...

This is blog post #27 from our tour of northern Europe. On Thursday, July 24th, we anchored off Lerwick, the main town on the Shetland archipelago, and tendered into town. We began by looking around the town, then went on an excellent bus tour from there to the southernmost...

This is blog post #26 from our tour of northern Europe. On Wednesday, July 23rd, after spending the previous day at sea, sailing from Iceland, we docked at Runavik. We had no plans and as it turned out, didn’t do much, though I walked 5.6 km. Sea days are...

This is blog post #25 from our tour of northern Europe. On Monday, July 21st, after spending the night docked at Reyjavik on our ship, we took an 8-hour bus tour of the Reykjanes Peninsula, always a great area to tour for volcanic features, but with an eruption currently...

This is blog post #24 from our tour of northern Europe. On Sunday, July 20th, we spent over 11 hours on a bus touring the top sites of the South Coast, including two waterfalls (Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss), a black sand beach (Reynisfjara), a puffin-viewing spot with basalt arches (Dyrhólaey),...

This is blog post #23 from our tour of northern Europe. On Saturday, July 19th, we visited Grundarfjörður, a community of about 880. While we had lots of time to explore, being there from 08:00 until 7:30 pm, visibility was very poor. My hadn’t booked an excursion, though, and...

This is blog post #22 from our tour of northern Europe. On Wednesday, July 16th, we arrived at our second Greenland port stop, Qaqortoq (formerly known as Julianehåb), and started tendering ashore at 08:00. We didn’t have any plans, but the ports where that’s been the case have worked...