Our final stop was in Hawaii where we hired a car and spent 8 days travelling around Oahu.
Close
9 weeks travelling through Scandinavia, England, France, and the USA.
Our final stop was in Hawaii where we hired a car and spent 8 days travelling around Oahu.
Another visit to the Happiest Place on Earth : )
In LA we stayed at Santa Monica and watched the LA Lakers basketball game.
Our drive from Morro Bay to Santa Monica took us through Cambria, San Luis Obispo, Los Olivos, and Santa Barbara.
Another stay at Morro Bay to see the amazing Sea Otters, and to collect some sand dollars.
We rented a car in San Francisco and headed off down the Californian coast and along the Big Sur highway.
Flew from New York to San Francisco to take in the New Years Eve fireworks display along the Embarcadero near Fishermans Wharf.
We flew out of Paris and arrived in New York late on Christmas Eve.
We crossed under the English Channel on the Eurostar Train and arrived in Paris, where we stayed in the Latin Quarter.
The Scandinavian part of our trip was now over and we headed to England, where we spent most of the time in London, but also ventured off to see Bath and Stonehenge. The temperatures were a bit warmer but unfortunately the snow was replaced with rain.
We arrived by train into Oslo, our final stop in Scandinavia.
We left Bergen and headed to Flåm. We did a cruise on the Aulandsfjordsome, took a plunge in the freezing waters outside our floating sauna, stayed in the Fretheim Hotel in Flåm, then took the Flåm Railway and headed to Oslo.
We returned the rental car to Leknes and then flew down to Bergen where we walked around the Bryggen; the old historic harbour area.
We flew from Tromso down to the Lofoten Islands where we stayed for a few days and hired a car to explore the islands.
After a 10 hour bus trip from Rovaniemi we crossed into Norway and arrived in Tromso. At 69 degrees north, it’s the furthest North we have ever been. Sunrise was at 11:45am, followed by sunset at 12:15pm.
We caught the early morning bus from Levi down to Rovaniemi where we visited Santa Claus Village and wandered around the city.
Kyra and Mickey went skiing at Levi, the largest ski field in Finland.
The amazing Lapland and the Aurora Borealis. We stayed at the Northern Lights Village in Sirkka and got to experience all the winter outdoor activities, and to see the northern lights.
We took a ferry ride from Helsinki across the Baltic Sea to Estonia, where we spent the day wandering around the old town of Tallinn.
Hopping on and off planes and walking across snow covered tarmacs was a new experience.
Stockholm was beautiful waking up to snow falling on the city. And the ABBA Museum was great to experience.
A quick stop to Copenhagen in Denmark to visit Princess Mary.
The first stop on our Scandinavian trip was to Reykjavik in Iceland, and from there we travelled around the southern part of the island past Vik and as far East as Suðursveit.