Hi all,Rather annoying, but my fully formed last email disappeared before I could send it out. So this is a rewrite.On our last day in Stockholm (we were only in Stockholm for 4 nights), we took a ferry ride on a beautiful day

Hi all,Random pics, drawing to a close:This bronze statue is heated and not far from our hotel. It's a public service; we figured it has probably saved people's lives. It is friggin cold. I am wearing about 5 layers, just about everything I

Hi everyone,I should add that one reason spirits were so high at The Nobel Museum was that all that week the Nobel Committee had been announcing the winners of the various Nobel prize winners for 2010, one a day. The day of the

Hi everyone,What a beautiful city Stockholm is. Located over a series of islands, it reminds us a little of a cross between Vancouver and Amsterdam, with some Seattle thrown in. We came here to attend the opening of The Missing Peace at the

Dear all,We never planned to go to the Frankfurt International Book Fair. It just happened that way. We were flying in and out of Frankfurt on Singapore Air (which is a great flight, by the way). While trying to book accommodations, I noticed

Dear all,Awoke to what sounded like heavy chains being dragged up an endless flight of stone stairs - maybe the Duomo? It turned out to be some of those food and souvenir carts rattling their way across the stone-paved passageway in front of

Dear friends and family,Let's see, yesterday (Saturday) we changed apartments. This apartment changing is the result of making such last minute changes to the trip, but the new apartment might be even better than the last. Both were great, but this one has