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Norway

Riding the rails through Norway’s most scenic vistas

Unlike air travel, which lifts you above the world, or car journeys, which demand your attention on the road, travelling by train lets you truly see and feel the landscape. Now of course, one could be snoring away but that would be grave injustice to the rolling hills, dense forests, quaint villages, and sprawling cities, […]

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Netherlands

Scheveningen – A Winter Beach Retreat in The Hague

It was Christmas day of 2024. We were done with a very good week in Norway and were in Amsterdam for the last leg of our Dec ’24 trip. But the crowd of the so called Sin City had gotten to us, and we were craving for some silent solitude. I’ve never been the kind […]

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Norway

Queen of the North – Aurora Borealis

Wild and free It was quite a moment when we stepped out of the airport limits, into Tromso. At half past 10 in the morning, it was seemingly dark and temperatures as low as -12 degrees celsius (feels like -14). We had been in Norway for a while already, a land where the sun barely […]