by ronmitchelladventure | Jun 15, 2024 | Estonia, Europe
All aboard! A Finlandia ferry from Helsinki shoots across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Estonia in only two and one-half hours. Feels more like a cruise ship than a ferry. Bars and restaurants galore, multi-gambling machines everywhere, live clown entertainment for the...
by ronmitchelladventure | Jun 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
While Marilynn buses west to hike in the Albanian Alps, I take a train north to get stoned in Amsterdam. The photos below depict potential dangers of marijuana and hash. Bicycles. More bicycles than people in Amsterdam. Over two-thirds of the population pedal to work...
by ronmitchelladventure | May 31, 2024 | Belgium, Brussels, Europe, North Macedonia
I sit on the train from Clermont-Ferrand to Paris trying not to touch my knees against the young woman’s sitting directly across from me. We shall try not to look at each other for the next five hours. Squeals of an infant, also across from me, screech through my...
by ronmitchelladventure | May 25, 2024 | Bulgaria, Europe, France
After one week together in Barcelona, Marilynn and I ventured out into solo travel. We will meet-up in Helsinki, Finland three weeks from now. She leaves our hotel room for an early morning flight to Sofia, Bulgaria. I taxi to the train station for a long ride to...
by ronmitchelladventure | May 13, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
After one week in Barcelona, Marilynn and I look forward to separate, solo international travel adventures. She will fly to Bulgaria, while I take a train to one of France’s oldest cities, Clermont Ferrand. We will find out where the travel gods guide us from there,...
