After we dropped off our rental car at the Leonardo DiVinci Airport, we hopped on a train to reach our lodging in Rome. Because my hubby was the one booking the accommodation, I wasn’t the one responsible for getting us from the train station to the front door. So naturally, we ended up walking in a massive circle dragging our… Read more »
We landed in Florence around 1:30pm local time. The Florence airport is really small which makes life easier for people who’ve just flown for 15 hours. We grabbed our suitcases and wheeled them over to the tram stop outside of the terminal. The tram system is new and although most blogs and guidebooks to Florence still say to take the… Read more »
After cruising along the Inside Passage, I was really looking forward to exploring more of the incredible state of Alaska. We were fortunate to make the drive from Seward to Anchorage in clear weather and had amazing scenery the entire way. You’d think I would have gotten jaded by snowcapped mountains at this point; but you’d be wrong! My Instagram… Read more »
Our Malaysia Airlines flight from KLIA to Singapore was on-time and uneventful. While the 737 had a very new interior, the seat pitch was really tight. I’m not often grateful that I’m short; but on this flight, I was glad my legs weren’t supermodel-length or my knees would have been bruised being smashed up against the seat in front of… Read more »
Our Malaysia Airlines flight from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur was delayed, so we had an extra hour to loiter around the Phuket International Airport before we boarded the older vintage 737. The seats were not the newest but had a semi-decent amount of legroom. The short hour-ish flight featured a small snack and juice service, a bonus meal I was… Read more »
Our train from Tarragona to Barcelona was on a RENFE Regional train, meaning it was a one-class train with no assigned seating. The leg room was tight and there was no dedicated luggage racks in the cars other than the ones overhead. But the price was cheap – less than 8 Euros each for the roughly hour and a half… Read more »
I’m in San Francisco all this week for work. Yes, I realize how fortunate I am to be able to come here as often as I do and have someone else pay for it. Even when work is crazy, I remind myself how cool it is that I get to regularly travel here and suck it up when I want… Read more »
Our bus pulled into Glasgow and we decided to take a cab to our last hotel, rather than walk. Good thing too, because Glasgow is way more hilly than I anticipated and I’m fairly certain we would have needed to walk uphill most of the way. Once we checked into the hotel, Natasha announced that she wasn’t feeling all that… Read more »
I woke up in my London hotel, sad I was leaving my new favorite city in the world, but looking forward to the next phase of my U.K. adventure. Despite re-rolling all of my clothes, I could not get my suitcase to zip shut without having to expand it. This still mystifies me because I actually threw away an article… Read more »
My final day in London dawned somewhat sunny, which was a surprise to me since the Weather.com app claimed it was going to be full-on raining all day (I also learned on this trip that the app is less than reliable in England). I scrambled out of bed so I wouldn’t waste a minute more of the day. I jumped… Read more »