June 2024
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June 30th, 2024. Stockholm.
Tuesday morning George got up REALLY early with us and got us to the airport to fly Ryanair, an Irish airline, to Sweden. Really cheap flights, slightly smaller baggage allowance but slightly more legroom than the absurdly tight Play airline we took to get to Brussels via Iceland. T’was a short flight, but the airport…
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June 30th, 2024. Sigtuna & Sala.
Day 11: Sigtuna & Sala in Sigtuna, Sweden. Lawnmower roomba in its house! We left Stockholm to start a multi-day road trip northwest to the Dalarna region. It was gray, cool and drizzly – a change from yesterday’s perfect weather, but not unpleasant. First we stopped in the cute lakeside village of Sigtuna, one of Sweden’s…
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June 29th, 2024. Stockholm.
Day 10: Stockholm This day was achingly beautiful. I’m in danger of falling in love with Stockholm, but have been warned about the winters here. The weather was about 68°, sunny and breezy. Outside-all-day weather, I wish we could import it to you folks back home. We indulged in the Swedish breakfast buffet at the…
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June 28th, 2024. Stockholm.
Day 9: Stockholm at Brussels South Charleroi Airport. I’m grateful to have found $75 flights to Sweden, but otherwise… Up at 5am for a Ryanair flight out of Charleroi, south of Brussels…sort of a stressful drop off, the biggest crowds I’ve seen in an airport (or maybe just crammed into a smaller space), and tricky navigation,…
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June 27th, 2024. Day 8.
Day 8: Max is in the green shorts on the right. We took another rest day at the house and did laundry (which maybe we should have started yesterday as it’s still not dry after almost 5 hours in the dryer and we have to pack )… but the big thing of the day was…
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June 27th, 2024. Bathrooms and More.
Brussels as seen from a giant elevator in front of the (temporarily closed) Palais de Bruxelles. Ah, Bruxelles. We’ve spent much of the week promenading all over Belgique and it’s come close to killing me, and in all fairness, still has time to do so. The first several days were rainy and grey and cool…
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June 26th, 2024. Day 7: More Brussels.
Day 7: more Brussels! It’s apparently pretty common for people in the neighborhood to leave things out on the street for the taking. Walking to the tram, we came across a bunch of swimming flippers, which Del snapped up a couple of! Del took us on a slightly more leisurely (it was even hotter than…
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June 25th, 2024. Day 6, pt 2: the Musical Instruments Museum
Again, here’s the beautiful exterior of the museum building.— at Musical Instrument Museum. Day 6, pt 2: the Musical Instruments Museum Brussels has a ton of museums, but we decided this was the only one we NEEDED to go to (I enjoy museums, but with limited time in a city I’d rather walk around and see more…
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June 25th, 2024. Day 6, pt 1: Brussels.
Day 6, pt 1: Brussels — at Galléries St-Hubert. We made our way (by ourselves!) into downtown Brussels, walking and gawking! It was a gorgeous sunny cloudless day – got up to about 83° which is pretty hot for here, but low humidity so it was fine. I know people back home would kill for this weather……
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June 24th, 2024. Day 5. Woluwe.
We were fascinated that grass grows on the tram tracks! We wondered how they mow it… Day 5: We decided we needed a recuperation day. Stuck close to home in Woluwe – took a short walk around one of their neighborhood parks, got lunch at a cafe and rather embarrassed ourselves trying to order &…