Murray meets the queen

Some days murray winds up standing next to the queen. I don't know how these things happen. 

Latest Itinerary

This is what Murray and I are planning going forward.  I haven't got things booked past Berlin though to preserve the illusion of flexibility in our travels.  I can't imagine being in a city without having a place to stay booked in the next one though.

Travel from-to	Travel on Day
Denver - Reykjavik	Thursday, November 06, 2014
Reykjavik - Stockholm	Saturday, November 08, 2014
Stockholm - Copenhagen	Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Copenhagen - Färjestaden	Friday, November 14, 2014
Färjestaden - Amsterdam	Sunday, November 16, 2014
Amsterdam - Berlin	Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Berlin - Munich	Sunday, November 23, 2014
Munich - Prague	Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Prague - Budapest	Friday, November 28, 2014
Budapest - Vienna	Monday, December 01, 2014
Vienna - Paris	Thursday, December 04, 2014
Paris - Mallorca	Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Mallorca - Athens	Friday, January 09, 2015
Athens - Chania Crete	Sunday, January 11, 2015
Crete - Denver	Friday, January 30, 2015

The Roar of the MurMonster

You wouldn't think that such a small person could make such a big noise.  And stay asleep during it all to boot!  Since I am not sleeping now myself, I can take care of some emails at least.

La Sylphide at the royal Danish theater

After the main ballet they did one called Etudes. It was all the stuff from our ballet 1 class including the bar on the wall with a bit of lighting choreography and music added. It was interesting to me to see what I am supposed to look like but it begged the question of why any non-dancer would want to see it. But looking around it appeared there were a lot of dancers in the audience. Scandanavians are attractive but most of the young people are not so twiggy and cut as the ones around me. I could imagine the older folks having sat through the forth grade version of bar warm ups even if they had never taken a lesson themselves. 

Denmark land of danishes

Guess who is happy

Pics from around Stockholm

Vasa Ship Museum

The Vasa museum comes up on Tripadvisor at the top for good reason.  The huge ship from the 1620s has been amazingly preserved.  Plus the additional section on life around the world in that era was really well done and informative.  The ship looks like a haunted pirate ship but it is not.  Not a pirate ship anyway, the thing sank 20 minutes into its service life.  It may be haunted though.  The skeletons they found inside were brought up and displayed with the rest of the wreckage.

http://www.vasamuseet.se/en/

"Vasa Top Deck" by OneHungLow.