After a relaxing time in Reykjavik where we visited multiple museums, we head out for the day with our guide Sola to see Iceland’s South Coast waterfalls, glacier, and puffins. Tourists can book with Sola via toursbylocals.com; one of our favorite private guide sources. We also like to use Get Your Guide at https://getyourguide.com The […]
Read MoreBack in Reykjavik We got off the gawd awful Norwegian Cruise ship a day early in Reykjavík, and didn’t waste any time getting ourselves back to having fun. After a quick ‘get ourselves together’ drink at Apotek, we wandered up Rainbow Street to go shopping and find some fish and chips! It’s time for more […]
Read MoreSearching for our Viking Heritage It’s a busy afternoon visiting Hjálparfoss, Commonwealth Farm, & Hella Caves! After our visit with Bishop Christian at Skalholt, we took a long scenic drive and stopped at Hjálparfoss, which means ‘Help’ in Icelandic. Hjalparfoss Iceland is chock full of waterfalls, big and small, thin and wide, powerful and trickling. […]
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Our private guide picked us up bright and early to head to the Borgarfjordur valley. Our guide was off on his timing so when we arrived at Borgarnes village, nothing was open, including the Saga museum that I hoped Edna would see. The museum offers a re-creation of the Icelandic saga Egill. Time was an […]
Read MoreIn 2021, when Cathy and I made our first ‘Pandemic Escape’ back to Iceland, I sent pictures to my then 82-year-old aunt, Edna. Her mother is our grandmother, so she too is Icelandic. I wanted to share with Edna some of our favorite places in Iceland and give her the feeling of ‘home’ like Cathy […]
Read More2023 is my 4th trip to Iceland. This time my son Barrett is my travel partner. We were lucky that we found a Delta flight which had a layover at JFK and instead of taking the usual 3 days, it only took two. We landed at Reykjavik airport at 9 am and had a private […]
Read MoreWhile we may have worn some tread off of our shoes the day before as we trekked around Prague, today was another busy day and more trekking. We decided to do a walking food tour with our guide Lucie. I’ve done food tours in other countries and always find it to be fun as you […]
Read MoreIt was going to be hard to beat our dinner at Essencia in Budapest, but our dinner at Babel was another 10 out of 10. We walked from our hotel using our gps to navigate and ended up on the wrong street in front of a dive bar. From there we stopped using google maps […]
Read MoreThe biggest decision about Prague was how will we fit in all the things I wanted to do in only 4 days! No grass growing under our feet, each day we took private tours, visited museums, ate at Michelin restaurants and enjoyed Charles Bridge once the weekend was over and all the visitors, apparently from […]
Read MoreThe walk from our hotel, The Augustine, to the restaurant was pretty easy except for the immense crowds that we did not expect! The Charles bridge was so packed with people that we didn’t really want to spend time on it before dinner. We opted to eat outside with a view of the Vitava River […]
Read MorePeople all over the world go to a lot of trouble to write guidebooks to help the rest of us with information on a location, hotels, restaurants and general information. However, guidebooks are also limited by several factors. First of all, what one person thinks is a ‘must stop’ might not be meaningful to you […]
Read MoreI’m a sucker for Roman history and will take any and every opportunity to see Roman ruins when I’m travelling. Today, we visit Aquincum. The area of Aquincum was originally settled, sometime between the third and forth centuries BC, by the ancient Celtic tribe called the Eravisci. Little is known about the tribe, but it […]
Read MoreWe’ve visited Iceland in March and Canadian Northwest territories in February. What compels two California gals to travel to places that are not only cold, but damn cold? Well for one thing, we don’t like crowds, so we often travel ‘on the shoulder’ season when weather can be less than ideal. For another, in the […]
Read MoreI learned long ago that there are certain items that are essential when travelling, especially backup chargers, cords, and converters. The last thing you need on a trip is to not have power for your phones, laptops, cameras, and ipads. In today’s electronic world, there are multiple types of connectors – USB, C, D, flash […]
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Hungary has been on my list of places to visit for a very long time. I don’t know exactly why other than my grandma used to make goulash and I always thought it was a Hungarian dish. What I didn’t know is that Grandma’s goulash was her own invention and nothing like Hungarian food! Then […]
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