Travel
Planning for five days in Paris with my eleven year old niece, Aubrey, was a bit challenging. While I’ve been to Paris many times over the past twenty years, most recently last November, I needed to view it through new eyes and become a tourist. Becoming a tourist, to me, […]
You always remember your first time and my Thai A380 first flight will not be forgotten anytime soon. The A380 is a massive, double decker plane and quite impressive from the outside. With my Australia RTW Star Alliance redemption, I purposely planned a long 18 hour layover in Bangkok from […]
The only “reality” show that I watch is the Amazing Race. It is fascinating to me as it shows the unpredictable nature of travel that we’ve all experienced at one point. The drama is much easier to watch from the comfy couch than to actually experience it for yourself. I’ve […]
I was on a twitter chat recently and the question of dream trips surfaced (as it always does). For me, my answer is usually Antartica as it is uber-expensive even for a couple and twice as much for me as a solo traveler with the single supplement. Generally if a […]
Over the years, I’ve stayed in a few different parts of London – Park Lane, Soho, Fitzrovia, Bond Street and the City of London. Wanting to try something new as the City hotel area is deserted on the weekend, I opted for a similarly priced hotel on Pall Mall, next […]
British Airways had two flights a day out of Philadelphia direct to London Heathrow, in April of 2017, sadly this changed to just one flight a day. The early flight has a four class cabin structure (First, Club World Business on two levels, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller Coach). […]
Preparing my niece for our trip to Paris and London, I had her complete her first week’s quiz on what she wanted to do and see. Week 2 was my attempt to influence her musical tastes leaning toward the music of the U.K. Full confession, I wanted to expel New […]
A special treat when I travel is to indulge in a day spa and the various treatments available such as facials, massage or mani/pedi. When I stayed at the Westin Capetown, I practically swooned in their spa and could have stayed for days in their relaxation room with the heated […]
Review – Hotel Palomar, a luxury boutique hotel in Philadelphia – Rittenhouse Square. The last thing you want to hear in any hotel is the fire alarm going off. In all of my travels, I’ve encountered about four alarms in the middle of the night and I quickly jumped out […]
This week’s FriFotos is “Wood” and I immediately thought of all the uses of wood on my safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. I stayed at Oddballs’ Camp, an eco-camp which used solar power and local materials. The various forms and importance that wood plays on safari is evident all day […]