WELCOME TO FARNSNIENTE

Today we wake up in Germany. Warnemunde, to be exact. It’s early, 7:20 a.m. Our captain is making his daily announcement to the whole ship.

Yesterday we were in Poland. Today we’re in Denmark. Tomorrow we’ll be in Germany. Bing, bang, boom. Over here the countries are close enoug

Today we add another country to our list: Poland. We’re in Gdańsk. The land of Lech Wałęsa, solidarity and the shipyards. That’s about all w

Well you gain some, you lose some. Today we gain another country on our list of places we’ve visited: Lithuania. And we lose an hour. We’re

When we wake it’s not too bright outside. It’s 55º on our balcony and it feels wonderful. Yesterday we arrived in Stockholm, and today we ar

No time for messing around this morning. We’re in Stockholm today. The nation’s capital is at the heart/end of a huge archipelago. We’re doc

We awake right at 8:00. Well, Karen does anyway. She prods me to get up, reminding me we ordered breakfast be delivered to the room between

We wake. Karen didn’t sleep great. Out our window we see that they’ve made good progress at cleaning up the main city square where the Pride

Today we slept in til 8:30. We got to bed late last night due to the music from the Pride Festival venue across the street so it’s probably

We’re up at 6:30 per the plan. Scott’s fleece has not magically re-appeared overnight. We splash some water in our faces, scramble to finish

Today we sleep in, maybe due to our late night, or too much wine and song. We both feel that we somehow avoided any jet lag coming this way.

We’re up at 6:30, trying to convince ourselves that we're feeling no jet lag. There’s coffee in the room, thankfully. As is the custom on th

Woke up on the plane thirty minutes from landing in Paris. They thankfully let us sleep through breakfast. We’re flying in from Newark, so t

The first day of a Europe trip is typically the most boring and a little bit stressful. It’s essentially getting to the airport and getting

Some commotion in the airplane cabin wakes us from our less-than-ideal sleep. The flight attendants are moving about. It’s apparently time t

Today we fly back home, eventually. Our flight is scheduled to take off at 6:40 pm, so we have most of the day to see more of Singapore. The

In a long, sad, series of “lasts”, today is our last full day in Asia. Our goal today? Explore some of the many interesting neighborhoods in

By the time we're awake, groggy from last night’s excess, we are already docked in Singapore. We get ready and have our last meal (our last

Happy Star Wars Day! (May the fourth be with you and all that.) Our cruise director is a big Star Wars fan so we’re getting this joke from h

Today’s our last day in Ho Chi Minh City, and in Vietnam. Our flight home, in four days, looms large. We should be living in the moment but