Stepping off the edge

Owlmother's adventures

Picking up where I left off… kinda

I started a blog called Stepping off the Edge when I left my comfortable middle class and middle age life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and headed to Adelaide, Australia to return to school in 2012.

For 8 years I blogged about events in my life…family weddings, birth of grandkids, travel. I no longer own the email address associated with that blog so couldn’t continue, hence starting over in this space.

So I picked up where I left off with our trip in fall 2024 to Europe and will continue with India and the Maldives .

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  • COLOGNE

    We took a fast train from Amsterdam to Cologne and stopped for lunch and a tour of the Cologne Cathedral, the tallest two spire cathedral in the world. I’d been here before and to other cathedrals in Europe. Keith and I visited the Cathedral in Seville, Spain which is the world’s largest Gothic cathedral. They Read more

  • THE ROMANTIC RHINE

    From Cologne we took the train to Koblenz and south. Out the train window we watched the river traffic along the Rhine, lots of barges transporting goods north and south and cruise boats (not large ships). Along the way we passed about 25 castles up on the banks of the river and as many vineyards Read more