The end is near friends and family, but dispaire not! We have some beautiful pictures from the last few places we've visited and we will be making at least one more post, possibly from London.
After enjoying our time in Amsterdam, which included the city and the outskirts, we barely caught our 4:20 Ryan Air flight [which we originally thought was at 6:30] from Eidhoven to some place an hour and a half outside of Stockholm.
Stockholm is a georgeous city, and is similar to many other sea fairing cities in that it had a rich past that included a lot of sailing back and forth. We learned that Sweden and Norway both still have Royal families, though neither are in direct ruling status. We also went to this dank, but really impressive museum where we got to see one of the world's oldest wooden battle ships. This particular boat never made it more than a few miles from shore, but it probably the best preserved specimin from before the 1600's due to the cold waters near Stockholm. The museum is called the Vasa Museum, and if any of you come to Stockholm it is worth a visit.
We stayed near the Nobel museum, where the Nobel family has displayed some relics from its famous past, and we also saw the impressive city hall where they hold the Nobel Prize ceremonies every year.
After a quick day and half in Stockholm we caught a train to Oslo and then a few transfers on our way to Flam. Pay close attention to time on the watch in the picture below, yes that is PM not AM.
The effects of the 24 hour sun [which scandanavia is famous for around this time of the year] were wierd enough without the help of our sleepless night train, and subsequent 5 hour layover in some town called Myrdal [which looked to have nothing but trains going through it .. not a road in site], all of this culminating in a goofy but beautiful train ride from Myrdal to Flam that included beautiful waterfalls, valleys and a Nymph which will we have to save the video of for later.
Once we finally arrived in the touristy, but awe inspiring landscape [see picture at the top of the post] of Flam we snuggled into our cabin. We eventually came out to enjoy the scenery and a 4 hour boatride that took us through parts of the world's longest Fjord the "Songefjord" where we took some great pictures and generally just took in the scenery.
After a few days in Flam, living as cheaply as possible because Norway is ungodly expensive, we made our way back up to Oslo. Hopefully we'll find some good pictures to share with everyone from Norway's capitol.
Anyway, we will see you all soon!
- CC & JW
They call it a fairytale castle because the crazy King Ludwig spent a tonne of his royal inheritance on building it, though it was never completed due to his mysterious death at age 40. It was medeavil style on the inside, decorated in impressive detail, and even after 17 years of work was only 2/3rds completed. 
Both villages are right on the ocean, but are inside the sets of dykes (dams) that protect massive portions of land that has been reclaimed from the sea. The shoes made the visit worthwhile :)
