Where was Merlin in 2018? The owly annual review
Shortly before the year 2018 comes to an end, here is a brief owly annual review. If you are interested in articles or videos about the individual trips, please write it in the comments! Merlin and I wish you a happy new year 2019 and as always don’t panic!
We started in February with a short trip to Aarau (Switzerland):

Less than two weeks later, we took the train to visit Berlin for two days:

Luxembourg was so hectic that I forgot to photograph Merlin :-(, so the next picture is from Canada (Montreal):

After only a very short break I went to Valencia for three days. I was especially happy about that because I was often there as a child:

Another short trip in May took Merlin and me to Maastricht:

Hard to believe but true, here is Merlin at night shortly after 11:00pm at the sea in Jurmala to celebrate the summer solstice:

So far, Merlin and I have been on the road every month, so there was a little break in July before we went to Norway in August. Since it was only a short vacation, we were in Oslo:

And in Bergen:
I had to cancel my trip to Naples in September due to an injury, but I went with crutches to Tokyo:




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