Dublin South Coast

My Award Ticket to Dublin, Ireland on Aer Lingus using Avios

Chances are you dream of using your airline or credit card miles to travel to Europe.   Chances are also good that you’ve more than once played with the airline redemption calculator to see what it would cost you to realize that dream trip.  And sadly, chances are that after […]

Amsterdam Canal Tour – Relaxing on “The Tourist” boat

For my quick weekend in Amsterdam, the first thing I wanted to do was get a lay of the land as they say, in this case, similar to Venice best to go by boat.  So I started searching for an Amsterdam canal tour.  Staying at the Hotel Pulitzer  which is located along […]

Snow in Paris from the Louvre

Snow in Paris & Stranded in London Heathrow

With the snow on the East Coast this weekend which thankfully was a non-event in Philly for a change (although I did stock up on essentials – not milk, eggs, bread but wine, chocolate and potato chips to reward me for any shoveling I may need to do) it reminded me […]