We arrived late at the Brisbane airport. There is usually a train that will take you to the city, but the last one was at 10 and we got there at 10:30. We took an Uber to our hotel, which was the same price of the train. One noticeable difference with Australian airports is how quick you receive your bags from baggage claim. I think we waited five … Continue reading Brisbane, Australia
We drove to a spot under the Harbor Bridge to take some pictures of it and the Opera House when we arrived. Then we had to return the car to the airport. We needed to top off the gas tank and while we were waiting for a truck to move, three cars jumped a curb to pull in front of us. A taxi tore off part of … Continue reading Sydney, Australia
We arrived in Sydney and rented a car to drive straight to Canberra. We visited the Australian War Memorial first. It is a very impressive museum. There are a ton of different artifacts from every war. They honor the soldiers with their portraits and medals and around the reflection pool they have lists of all the names of the soldiers from different wars and spaces for you … Continue reading Canberra and the Highlands, Australia
We took the high speed train to Venice. It didn’t feel like we were on a high speed train and it took two and a half hours to travel from Milan to Venice. There were seven stops along the way. We had assigned seats and our bags easily fit above us. The tickets were about 49 euros each for coach class. The seats were fine, but there was … Continue reading Venice, Italy
We wanted to get out of Milan on Saturday, so we took a train to Bergamo, which only cost around 12 euros round trip each person. It was less than an hour to get there and when we arrived, we took the 1 bus up to Citta Alta (Upper Town), which is the old called city area. You can take a funicular, but the line was quite … Continue reading Bergamo, Italy
We decided to take the train to Lake Como on Thursday since it’s only about an hour from Milan. We took the train around 9:30 into Varenna. The train was packed. Many people were standing in the aisles. It takes about ten minutes to walk down to the lake and most people immediately got in line for the ferry. We took a left turn to walk along the water … Continue reading Lake Como
We arrived in Milan early on a Wednesday morning. We couldn’t get into our hotel room until much later, so with little to no sleep the night before, we stored our luggage and headed out into the city. The hotel was very close to the Duomo di MIlano (Cathedral of Milan) so we thought we should check it out. My husband bought tickets online for us to go … Continue reading Milan, Italy
I have been on several battleships, but this one was the coolest. Why? You can go almost everywhere inside. It housed 2500 people and you can see that it is its own city on a ship. The other cool thing about the park is that you not only get to explore the U.S.S. Alabama, but you can go inside a submarine, wander outside and look … Continue reading U.S.S. Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
This is the fourth all inclusive resort that we have stayed in. It is the first in the Dominican Republic. Two of them were in Mexico, in the Yucatán area, and the other was in Costa Rica. We have only paid for one of the resorts out of pocket. The other three we used our points. All the resorts were considered five star resorts, but this is the first one … Continue reading Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana: all inclusive resort review
This was the first day of our trip that we had no obligations (besides leaving for our flight at 3:30pm from the hotel). We could do whatever we wanted. We had said good bye to our group leader and group members the night before. We woke up around 8:30am and wandered down to the breakfast buffet. It was the best one we had seen all trip. There was a guy … Continue reading Prince Mohamed Ali Palace, Cairo, Egypt
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