WELCOME TO FARNSNIENTE

We wake, still laughing at Ron’s corduroy joke from last night. We’re in a house with three levels and a very full kitchen and dining room,

We wake and flip switches to ensure the building’s three different water heaters are all on. We use the hot water to bathe and shave. The co

Well, after two lovely days in Trogir it’s time to move on. We started as just the two of us. Then Ron and Nancy joined us. And if all goes

Ah, we love these days where we wake up, and plan to go to sleep, in the same city. It’s a quiet, down day. Not much planned. We do have dir

As so often is the case, we have a full day planned. We get going early to get it all done. We’re at breakfast at 8 where the buffet is spre

We’re up early since we have to meet our ride to the airport at 8 am. We wash up, coffee up, and pack up. We message Ron and Nancy but get b

Last night I was thinking I need to drink less and maybe this morning, for our walk of the wall around the old city, we’d have our swim suit

We wake, have coffee, and decide to put off walking the wall surrounding the city until tomorrow. Today we’ll buy the tickets for that, thou

Rabbit, Rabbit. It’s the first of the month! Up early, breakfast and we tip (and say goodbye to) some of our regular servers. We do final pa

We wake up on the ship after “two days” in Amsterdam. Our next stop, Bruges, is our last before we disembark in Southampton. Looking out the

We wake up, still in Amsterdam. Such fun. We have tickets to the Rijks Museum today. It’s the number one most famous museums in the city an

Yesterday we did the Kiel Canal and were on the ship, motoring, pretty much the whole 24 hours. Today we get into Amsterdam and to do that w

I sleep great until I don’t, around 4:30 a.m. At 5:00 I get up and dressed (enough). I gather all my essentials (iPhone, computer, room key)

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