The Road Goes Ever On

...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Vasa Museet

Port side; the scale defies depiction, at least on my camera Richly carved fantail Carved gunports Large scale model, depicting how t...

Stockholm City Hall

City Hall from "our" island, Langholmen Ceiling of city council chambers, Viking ship upside-down theme... The gold room Strindber...

Friday, June 26, 2009

Older Stockholm

A shopping street on Gamla Stan Said to be one of Stockholm's oldest buildings Parliament On Knights' Holmen, buildings once belongi...

Changing of the Guard

Palace entrance, main guard station Vicki stood right next to the main guard guy The band arrives; every other day, we were told, they arriv...

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Gamla Stan, Royal Palace, City Hall, and Vasa

Sunday, after careful calculation, we bought a Stockholm Card, good for 24 hours of transportation, museum and other admissions, and headed ...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Helsinki in (Less Than) a Day

We arrived in Helsinki about 10AM Friday, in more rain. We decided to forego the bus tours, etc., and just did it ourselves, buying a day-pa...

Cruisin' the Baltic

Our ship, the Viking Lines' Gabriella, left Stockholm in rain about 5PM. Our stateroom, on deck 2, was actually fairly nice, for the pri...

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