• Heidi LaGrow
  • Heidi LaGrow

North Europe Feels

For our 45th birthdays we chose Northern Europe! Iceland, Norway and Sweden, aka, viking land! Read more
  • Trip start
    July 26, 2022

    The Golden Circle

    July 27, 2022 in Iceland ⋅ 🌧 52 °F

    We arrived to Reykjavik bright and early and took off to Reykjavik for coffee and toast then off to the Thingvellir NP. We ended the evening having dinner with Matt, Erica and the boys! We soaked in a geo thermal bath at a local joint recommended by Andrea. Our hotel was super sweet next to the Great Geysir. Definitely an Icelandic style.Read more

  • Black Sand Beaches and Baby Blue Water

    July 28, 2022 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

    Our second day was all about water! Waterfalls, Glaciers, Ocean views and geo thermal blue lagoon baths. Iceland is so magical and the color contrast is insane! Can’t wait to go back.

  • Oslo

    July 29, 2022 in Norway ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    This was a crazy day of travel! Two flights and a stressful moment of thinking we couldn’t get train tickets to Flam for the next day. We were in Oslo for less than 10 hours but here is what we saw. Seems like a cool city.Read more

  • Flåm! Wow. This is officially North

    July 30, 2022 in Norway ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F

    The Flambana train is just as amazing as reviewed. Wow. What a view. We arrived, found our Airbnb right in town and took off for a beautiful hike. We ended the evening with dinner. It’s cool to see all the backpackers, mountain bikers, bus tour and cruise people all in one area for the same reason. The Fjords are more amazing then expected.Read more

  • Fjord Life!

    July 31, 2022 in Norway ⋅ 🌧 61 °F

    We spent most of the day hanging out on the Sognefjorden in Flåm then took an incredible boat ride to Leikanger to get to a piece of heaven at the Lurden Farm…this is the sweetest Airbnb I’ve ever stayed at. I think this may be heaven.Read more

  • A Day to CHILL!

    August 1, 2022 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F

    We didn’t have to drive/fly/ride a boat or take a train today and it was amazing. We spent most of the day soaking in the Sognefjorden at our Airbnb, walk around the owners fruit farm…then decided we needed to do something so took a bus to Sogndal (fun, bigger town 10 minutes away) and bought groceries for dinner and took in some of the downtown. It has a college feel.Read more

  • Boat and Bergen

    August 2, 2022 in Norway ⋅ 🌧 57 °F

    We said goodbye to heaven this morning and took an express boat to Bergen. The rainiest city in Europe”…says our car rental dude in Reykjavik. It rained all day! It was very Humboldty. Oh and Jeff ate WHALE!Read more

  • Stockholm, Pride and a Volcano landing!

    August 6, 2022 in Sweden ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

    Our last day was back to Gamla Stan for the Nobel museum then while walking on the water we realized it was the start of the Pride parade! We spent the early afternoon enjoying every moment then jumped non s plan to Iceland for our last connection to Chicago. The volcano erupted two days ago and it’s 15 Km from the airport. It took two landing try’s by the great pilots because of the zero visibility due to smoke!!! What a wacky end to one epic trip!Read more

    Trip end
    August 6, 2022