Lycamobile SIM for European Travel
I have a long history of securing SIM cards for travel: if you have friends in Europe and want to interact with them socially, it’s a necessity.Fortunately, this is something that has only gotten...
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Currency Crisis
The day started well.When we returned from a morning out, I investigated Sweden’s replacement of its paper currency a little more, to see what my options were for exchanging my old for some new; I...
View ArticleKao's, What Kao's?
On the last episode of “Peter and Oliver Try to Eat at Kao’s” we were dogged by payment challenges, and ended up abandoning the effort and reconciling ourselves to never eating there.Tonight, however,...
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Test Riding a Cargobike Electric Classic
Malmö, like its Danish cousin across the sound Copenhagen, is a bicycling city, and the number and diversity of bicycles inspires awe, especially when compared to Charlottetown, where cycling remains...
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Oliver in Red
We had the pleasure of visiting the Siri Aurdal exhibition at the Malmö Konsthall this afternoon, and while wandering through a forest of tinted plexiglass, I spotted this view of Oliver.Malmö | Art |...
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The Climate Cannot Wait
It is high election season here in Sweden, and election advertising is on every street corner (and consumed almost all of the pre-show at the movie we went to yesterday).This ad for the Green Party is...
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Weekend in Malmö Among Friends
As usual, we spent too little time in Malmö, didn’t get to do all the visiting we wanted to do, didn’t get to have all the conversations we wanted to have. But we made a valiant effort to squeeze in as...
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48 Hours in Berlin
When we last left the trail of our summer’s-end trip to Europe we were in Malmö, Sweden, preparing to head to Berlin.On Monday morning we woke up to a dreary day in Malmö, with the threat of rain just...
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Saturday Morning in Amersfoort
Amersfoort | Bagels & Beans | Breakfast | Saturday Morning
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Playground Rules
There is a small playground across from our flat in Amersfoort with this sign posted in front. I love the rules and how they’re communicated in words and stick figures.Design | Signage | Amersfoort |...
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all the friends I've not yet met
It is a sunny Sunday in Amersfoort, and I am sitting on the tiny third floor balcony of our rented flat, looking out over the back yards of our erstwhile neighbours. Across the way and several back...
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Randomness Leads to Paradiso
I had a chat with Pedro yesterday about the utility of opening yourself up to “randomness” when traveling (or, for that matter, when moving through life). Randomness, put another way, is simply not...
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Amsterdam Sample Platter
If there was a travel planning bug when I put this trip together, it was only leaving 48 hours for Amsterdam. But we had a hard start for public school on Thursday on one end, and TonElmineCon on the...
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The Peter and Oliver Podcast: Schiphol Massage Edition
peterandoliverpodcast-massage.mp3We are heading home, and recorded a quick podcast here in Schiphol Airport after going through security.Security passage, as you will hear, was greatly aided by advance...
View ArticleJim Munves
Sitting here in the airport in Amsterdam I received the sad news that Jim Munves, a neighbour and great Islander, has died.Jim and his wife Barbara were fixtures of our neighbourhood; I saw them just a...
View ArticleAlmost Home (Frankfurt, Halifax, Sleep)
After this morning’s very positive experience at Schiphol Airport, I had high hopes for the balance of the day. As usually happens, we had good times and challenging ones. But we survived, and as I...
View ArticleTom Rath
I have often described the PEI Cancer Treatment Centre as simultaneously one of the saddest and happiest places on earth: when the sound of the “my treatment’s done and I’m cancer-free” bell rings out,...
View ArticleThe One Where the Bluetooth Toothbrush Buys It
This closing video of Smart Stuff That Matters 2018 captures the spirit of the weekend well.I came surprisingly close to offering up my phone for Elmine’s wrecking hammer; in the end, though, I...
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smart fortwo electric
We had an hour to kill before IKEA opened this morning, so we stopped in at O’Regan’s Mercedes to test drive a smart fortwo electric drive (and learned, in the process, that smart no longer makes...
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