Chris and I spent a month in Northern Europe this fall (Finland, Sweden, and Russia). It was a fantastic trip all around, but obtaining a Russian Visa was a bit harrowing. We wanted to share our experience here so other Americans can learn what to expect, and what steps to take to get a visa [...]
This is a test of a service I recently heard of called bluewalk.com that lets you create walks or walking tours in various places, not unlike what I was doing with Google Maps for our recent Northern European trip.
This map is of a walk Chris and I took on our first day back from said [...]
Chris and I were in Stockholm, Sweden, for 5 days last week. Several days were consumed with travel and workshop prep (for the upcoming Toronto workshop and talk). But 2 full days were spent wandering around the city of Stockholm, and on Saturday we took the train to Uppsala for the day.
While walking around [...]
This is just a single entry on our last day in Russia:
On Monday Oct 12 — still in St. Petersburg — Chris was signed up to give his talk (Identity is the Platform) at Vitaly’s University. I believe this article is advertising his speaking gig [it's all in Russian!]. The talk went well, but [...]
Chris and I were in both Helsinki and St. Peterburg last week. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Chris and Jyri were giving workshops to various clients in Helsinki. I was ensuring that our Russian Visas would be ready, and re-visiting folks from the FinnFacts tour from the week before
On Thursday morning, we took the Sibelius [...]
