Featuring Everything Swedish! (Have you heard of the band ABBA?) Day 35. Thursday 6/25/26 Copenhagen —> Göteborg —> Stockholm World of Volvo Museum. Newly opened in 2024 after moving locations. Forget all the cars for a second (Volvo is a car brand), the building, even if completely empty, was absolutely gorgeous. Designed by Henning Larsen, who designed the Danish Royal Opera House. Can see more photos from the Henning Larsen Website: https://henninglarsen.com/projects/worl

Featuring meeting two marvelous maestros in two days. And one of the coolest tours I've ever been on. Day 31. Sunday 6/21/26 Morning casually getting coffee, trying to figure out what the heck we're doing today. I realized that the only remaining tour for the Copenhagen Opera House starts in 34 minutes — on the complete other side of town. We decided to go for it. While walking, navigating, and boarding public transit, buying tickets in a mixed-language app, loading my credi

Featuring canceling 3 weeks of carefully designed plans and making it up as we go. (There are way more pictures below after you hear me rant about the heat wave.) Today is our scheduled change to the next leg of our trip. Mom flies home from Geneva. Dad and I should train to southeast France to start our tour. Well, I don’t know if you watch the international weather forecast for France — or the entirety of Western Europe — but it was dangerously hot. Two days before this sc