Murphy World Trip

A tourist 'must' is a dinner at Gold while in Cape Town. The African menu, all 14 items, is served family style and love it or leave it....

Exchange rates can bite you in the 'behind' or make your day. For R485 we enjoyed a 7 version wine tasting AND cheese pairing for two and...

Cape Town, South Africa is sinply amazing. The history, the landscape and the people. We have followed some of the trail of Nelson...

Its unlikely many will visit here in the near term but if you find yourself in Qatar the Souk marketplace, several football fields in...

As the site is public I'll be making sine adjustmenrs on posting dates so we aren't exactly trackable! Doha is an experience. Visiting...

We ended our time in Helsinki with a lovely haircut for Scarlett and some retail therapy before heading to Africa. We liked Helsinki but...

So, the shoe biz post a pandemic but largely developed in a country now further challenged by ongoing and varied global crises is a slog....

"There are no better or worse invaders, there is only power and violence." This museum showed the two occupations of Estonia, first by...

The two hour ferry from Estonia to Finland was so quick and easy. We are shifting to flights after this which is too bad; the ferrys are...

Of course you all know that! Seriously, though, I figured that 'past' would have had more of an impact. Tallinn is just lovely. Sinilar...

We took the overnight ferry, the second of our trip so far. These are like cruise ships with a bit less pizazz. The port window views are...

We spent an amazing day touring Norway from Bergen. The fjords are a must see. Large mountains on either sude if you with water down the...

We arrived in Bergen from the overnight ferry from Aalborg. Bergen is a quaint little town on the coast and the location from which we...

We loved Stockholm. It is a vibrant city and feels expansive but manageable. It is an incredible mix of old world eueopean and modern...

Perhaps because Henry spent a summer working and living here in Stockholm, we were excited to see it. Mom loves Stockholm. We expected...

Trondheim was a 1 hour flight from Bergen heading North and a bit west. From there we would make our way down the coast. To reiterate our...

We had so much fun looking at art in Copenhagen we thought we would share a few more of our favorite images. Apologies that they uploaded...

Well, Oslo will forever be the place my computer died and I spent a fulll 48 hours trying to get a new one. We leave Oslo and Norway...

We arrived in Oslo last night after a beautiful ans scenic train ride series from Andalsnes through the mountains. You can see Scarlett's...

We finally stepped foot in an automobile for 24 blissful hours. Never so happy to see a Subaru!! Lovely ride from Kristiansund to Alesund...