This travel blog is going to be a bit different in that there is not cruise ship involved! We fly on Iberia again from Mexico City to Madrid, Spain to begin our adventure of exploring the central areas of Spain by car all around Madrid. This will involved several nights here and there with our … More Central Spain by Car 2024
Often people ask me how am able to cruise so much? After 20 cruises in the last couple years I do have some experience in taking advantage of the budget deals that exist, most with NCL Cruise Lines because I am tied up with them with the Latitudes frequent cruise program. Now that I have … More My Cruising Budget Tips
Spain is all about their Plaza Mayor or in English Town Square, as every city seem to have a Main Plaza and they all use that same name. Since I traveled recently to several cities in the heart of Spain, I visited these Plazas Mayor in several cities along the way. Surprisingly, the biggest and … More Plaza Mayor/Town Square in Central Spain
As you well know from my many blog posts over the years, I am mainly a Cruise Vacation person versus Land Vacations. But as things turned out, I ended up back on the road this June 2024. A simple road trip around central Spain starting and ending in Madrid. My biggest concern was how would … More Cruise versus Land Vacations
Another last minute opportunity came about for me for a very reasonable price of $1400 cruise for 12 days going from Southampton, England to Miami, Florida. A little bit of research to find reasonable airfares to London and back from Miami and I am in! The ship was the NCL Joy which had gone to … More Transatlantic Cruise #5 NCL Joy
With continuous efforts to find the best Business Class fares among the airlines, I discovered a very good deal with Avianca from Mexico city to London Heathrow via Bogotá, Colombia. For only $1475 usd, so I booked it! Using aeromexico miles, I was able to get to Mexico City a few hours before, but … More Avianca Airlines Business Class Yes or No?
As I sit in front of the computer and start to look around again for my secret for Booking Business Class airfare that I feel within my budget. So, I decided to write this new blog discussing some of my strategies. I start out by using a general travel search site such as Kayak.com to … More My Secret for Booking Business Class Airfares
A last-minute surprise extraordinary cruise from Norway to Iceland on NCL Jewel that was too cheap to pass up became my next cruise costing me only $323 USD ($823 less $500 in Cruise Next Coupons) for 14 days! It was cheaper to cruise than to stay home I told myself. Then there is always the … More Tromso, Norway to Reykjavik, Iceland Cruise 2023
After cruising for the last 21 days from Miami, Florida it was time to take a break and wait for the next cruise in about 6 days from now. I had booked a nice little 1 bedroom apartment via Airbnb in the convenient neighborhood of Cais de Sodre below Barrio Alto in Lisbon, Portugal It … More Lisbon Portugal-My Top 10 Things to Do!
Looking forward to this Baltic Cruise since last year when I booked the brand new Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Prima! Due to delays at the shipyard, the ship was delayed and canceled cruises in August of 2022, but luckily we ended up being on the inaugural paid cruise from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Copenhagen, Denmark. After … More Baltic Cruise on the new NCL Prima- 2022