Planning
Expatistan: Cost of Living Index
We think it’s pretty safe to assume our readers tend to be dreamers who are curious about the world. Maybe you, too, have dreamt of a day when you can leave your life in the US behind and immerse yourself for an extended period of time in another place. If you already have, lucky you. Those […]
Inferno, Starring the City of Florence
We know it’s more than evident, especially when reading this blog, we are obsessed with Florence, Italy. So when a major motion picture takes place in our beloved city we of course have to let our opinion be known. The film, Inferno, based on the book of the same name by Dan Brown, gave us […]
Connecting to the World
The World Wide Web is what we called the internet back 1991. At the time, it was a curious domain only frequented by scientists and certain young nerds named Amanda. A world of interconnecting computers sharing information that could be traced on a map made of paper. You could receive and send information at what […]
With Disappointment Often Comes Opportunity
I’m sure we’ve mentioned our love affair with Florence, Italy before. We’ve mentioned how we began our romance there, honeymooned there, and spent our five-year anniversary there, each time staying in the exact same hotel room “our room” at the Pendini Hotel on Piazza della Repubblica. We were deeply saddened when we went to book […]
Making Time for the City Frozen in It
We are only four months from our anniversary trip to Italy and we thought we’d share one of the pieces from our itinerary. We’ve tried to incorporate a visit to Pompeii on our previous visits to satisfy our love of history. The time and distance of Naples (Pompeii) from our beloved Tuscany has always become an […]
An Ocean-Going Viking is Nothing to Fear
Viking Cruises are best known for their leisurely river cruises that cater to a more leisurely crowd (and not necessarily the target audience of this blog). But the small river boat company is making some big waves in the cruise business with some much bigger boats. The Viking Sea, the second in a new class […]
We’re Just Window Shopping, Right?
We know it hasn’t been that long since we’ve written about sailing, but it is one of the things we love so it gets a lot of column inches. The best part of a town like Annapolis, MD is that it has more than one boat show per year. The shows aren’t small filler shows, […]
The Old History of an Old America
I love history and warm places, hence my love of Greece, Italy and Egypt. But did you know we have a 450 year old city in the United States? A city founded as the renaissance in Europe was only 60 years old. Amazing, right? The city of St. Augustine, Florida is just south of Jacksonville […]
It Takes Time
When it comes to travel, sometimes getting where you want to go is half the battle. Six years ago when we took our first trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, it was easy to find a direct flight (to Cancun, at least, which is about a 45 minute drive from Playa). This year we struggled […]
Flying Rights
I know we touched on this topic a bit last year in our post A Flying First as we described some of the pitfalls of air travel in the winter months. This weekend’s blizzard on the east coast of the U.S. led to the cancellation of thousands of flights and the complete closure of some airports, […]
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