More than 10,000 years ago, all of Norway was covered by a giant glacier whose edges marched out to sea, freezing the ocean itself. When the ice retreated, it shoved boulders, gravel and sand together into a beautiful island now called Jomfruland, the largest mound of rock and earth in a vast, mostly underwater park. This “geo park” sits far out in the Kragerø archipelago, pushing into the powerful Skagerrak sea of Viking lore. “You have to see Jomfruland,” several Norwegian

Steaming Danish pastries, knockout architecture, and endless bike paths are hallmarks of this buzzing capital — Copenhagen, Denmark — our...

We radioed ahead to the Marstal marina, as has been our custom in England, France, Belgium and Germany. But no one answered our call....

Texel looked like a ghost town by the time we returned from a few landlubbing days in Haarlem and Hilden. On this quaint island with as...