Trips for Europe

As a crossroads of the financial world, Zurich sort of lived in my imagination as a glamorous setting for international intrigue and mystery. I pictured bankers, spies and various chic people all drinking red wine together and plotting... um …

Many people visit this Northern Italy region named Emilia-Romagna for many world-famed attractions. The genius of man and the mystery of nature gave birth to the Renaissance movement here. Legends such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarrot …

I started thinking about this trip over five years ago and invited my wife to go to Paris for our 25th Wedding Anniversary. She said 'No', believe it or not, becasue she was afraid to fly after the events of 9-11 and the aftermath in air travel …

May 4, 2007. Toronto, Canada. Finally, I set off to Athens for a 23 day trip, alone. Quite often, I had friends asking me the similar questions, "Backpacking? Greece? Turkey? Why?" And quite often, I felt hesitant to answer. "The freedom . …

Packing and Boston Logan Airport Today is the day my mom and I are leaving for Scotland for a nineteen day vacation! I took today off of work and I spent it running around like mad! I dislocated my elbow on August 1st in an ATV accident so this w …

Bonjour France ! We hop off the flight, still a bit disoriented after a wonderful but hectic visit to India, get our Paris pass & hop on the metro to get to the Hotel, grappling with signs in French.....a group of musicians entertain us with …

Steve (my bf at the time), Alice (Steve's sister) and I (Michelle) took a fabulous 25 day trip to Greece ! We planned the trip so that we would split our time between an islands vacation and time to spend with Steve and Alice’s family who live in …

Leave Seattle 12:50 in the afternoon. Arrive in Budapest around noon. We reserved a shuttle bus through the hostel so transportation from the airport is easy. Which is good, because I have brought a case of food poisoning with me from the states …

Day one in Paris and we hit the ground running. After some confusion at the machines where you buy your metro/RER tickets we finally made it to our hotel in Place de la République. The hotel, while not in the center of everything, was nicely loca …

What we did: • Waited around terminals • Flew. All darned night. What I learned: • If you forget your PSP, your Nintendo DS, or your netbook, at home, you can buy one from one of JFK’s enormous vending machines There were a bunch of these, standi …