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I recently did two “firsts” related to my travel…first was a cruise and second was to visit Alaska.  I am going to start by talking about my first cruise experience and next week I will talk about Alaska.  I truly think that some locations may be best seen by taking a cruise, and I think Alaska is one of them (and if you didn’t read my blog on Mykonos, I talked about this as well as probably the best way to see the Greek Islands).When the opportunity came up with a friend to do an Alaska cruise, I said yes [...]

Roma!  It’s absolutely one of my favorite big cities!  Like Athens, the traffic is definitely crazy but much like every big city it is just part of the experience.  We flew from Greece (Mykonos to Athens to Rome) and found our driver waiting for us in the airport with the little sign for Theresa Conti. This was our usual prearranged transportation to our hotel (I know broken record for sure – but we never have to worry about getting where we need to.) Our glorious stay this time would be at Hotel Indigo St. George in the Centro Storico area [...]

As I told you last week, we traveled to Greece in late May.   After spending a few days in Athens, we wanted to visit one of the Greek islands, so we chose Mykonos.  To get from Athens to Mykonos we chose to use the SeaJet service, instead of flying.  Sea Jet is a high-speed ferry service that stops at many of the islands. The first tip about the SeaJet is to make sure to book your tickets in advance.  We had done that and seeing the line to purchase tickets made me very happy that we had.  That also allowed [...]

Last month, we took a 10-day trip to Greece and Italy (Rome.)  I love to travel internationally so I am going to share my experiences of this trip with you and break it up into posts about the three main locations we visited.  It was a great experience as I love learning about new cultures and the historical part of places we visit. Let’s start with our first stop in Athens.  I usually love to visit big cities as they have so many things to see and do, but Athens was different.  Athens was a city built for about a [...]

I think it’s important to get this out in front of this post – it’s expensive to go to Walt Disney World – I know this is “common knowledge” or at least internet fodder for sure. There are dozens of surveys that show how much it costs; how much debt some people incur to go there and certainly how much it costs once you get there. I understand both sides of the story when it comes to that cost. When my husband and I went to WDW on our honeymoon a thousand years ago – we couldn’t afford it [...]

In my last blog, I talked about planning for travel and when traveling internationally I always start with the air travel portion of the trip and work from there.  When I plan for Disney (particularly Walt Disney World), it is ALWAYS reversed in that I need to make sure of availability of rooms before I look at airline travel.  I need to have an idea of the dates that I am considering, and I always try to have a “window” of dates.  One other thing that you absolutely need to consider when you are talking about Walt Disney World [...]