"Wild" cherries from a tree on the side of the road.

Out the window of the train.

Berlin

An amazing window display in a travel agent, with about 100 different sands.



Currywurst!











There was so much pollen in the air that it looked like snow.

England

Enjoying yogurt from a broken spork and the beautiful scenery from the train.



Hot chips with gravy, salt and vinegar in Manchester.

Cambridge, England

King's College. Sydney Uni eat your heart out.

Sweden

I didn't take many photos in Sweden- not that it wasn't amazing! But here is a photo of Mick in a Sauna looking particularly crazy and reading Jane Austin.

The Blue Lagoon

The spa and the geothermal power plant the water comes from.

West to about 300ks from Rejkjavik

Camping in the car. Quite cosy actually.



Looking for Puffins on bird cliffs, but sadly we were a few weeks too early.

The Glacier Lagoon

A bit of ice we'd found washed up. Then the tide started to pick up and lots of the "iceburgs" started to float out to the ocean, about 30m away at the end of the lagoon.



And we found this washed up on the beach!

East Iceland to Vatnajökull Glacier

A part of a bridge that was destroyed in a flood.











The largest glacier in Europe in the distance!

Iceland!!, Rejkjavik

We tried to cycle 50ks from the airport to the capital, Rejkjavik, after a few hours sleep on the plane from New York. Stupidest idea yet! Super-strong winds (with wind chill accompanying) and a hail storm, fortunately we found a local bus in the middle of the hail storm that took us to the hostel. We thawed in an amazing hot geothermal shower, and slept for almost 20 hours. Then rented a car.



Fortunately they are wearing rain coats, because it is going to start raining/hailing any second.

New York

My family got us a night in a really nice hotel for the night of my birthday. It was so beautiful, like The Shining but without the murders.

Washington, D.C.

Cherry Blossom Festival



The Museum of Natural History

Cleveland

The previous tenants left behind a huge pile of magazines...
For the connoisseur, note that it is the the carefully chosen Anna Nicole tribute issue.

Mick finally uses his physics degree to ride 10 miles with giant cardboard boxes! Basically, he has become a downtown cyclist/crazy.

Why aren't carpet shops in Australia that prophetically upbeat?? We also saw a church, and the Sunday sermon was titled "Is Obama the antichrist?"



We road across the state of South Carolina!



Thanks Republican Party!

Austrian cyclists we met, they were riding from Miami to New York.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Thank god for pedestrian lanes, out of Savannah we had to cycle over a big bridge in a traffic lane with a barrier that size, but to the right over the water. Pretty much gave me a fear of heights right there!

Cycling in low country, South Carolina