by Brian Crawford | Dec 23, 2019 | disney, travel
Tokyo DisneySea at Christmastime. Tokyo DisneySea is pretty impressive. The Nautilus at Mysterious Island. All theme parks should have hand-washing stations like these placed throughout the park. Not the best picture, but this is the lobby of our hotel, the Tokyo Bay...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 21, 2019 | travel
Amelia took several dance lessons with Lia Kim, a well-known choreographer, at 1MILLION Dance Studios in Gangnam. Gundam Base at Lotte Young Plaza near our hotel. As we were walking to Gyeonbokgung Palace, we happened upon a protest. Gyeonbokgung Palace. Amelia and I...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 14, 2019 | travel
Found R2-D2 on our walk this morning. He’s painted on an old Cold War nuclear bunker in Folimanka Park, not far from our flat. He looks a bit bedraggled, like he just got fished out of the swamp in Dagobah and tagged by some renegade bogwings. Incidentally, the term...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 27, 2019 | family, travel
One of my favorite things about living in Europe is the markets that spring up around many European towns around Christmastime. This evening Callum and I went to Náměstí Míru, a city square near where we live in Prague. The square is currently full of wooden Christmas...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 2, 2019 | travel
We’re in Helsinki in Finland, and it’s very cold and drizzly! Nonetheless, we’ve had a good visit, and toured some interesting places. We did a lot of walking of the city and stopped by most of the various must-see historic sites. None of the...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 2, 2019 | travel
After touring Riga for a few days we took a plane to Tallinn in Estonia. I was somewhat surprised by Tallinn – I wasn’t expecting it to be as large or as modern as it appears to be. The city has a really nice old town that we explored for a while before...
