Category: Travel
Discovering the world one step at a time. Travel stories, pictures, and travel hacking. Be a globetrotter on a budget!
Life is short and the world is big. We share our love of travel by taking beautiful pictures and recommending the top things to do at destinations all over the world.
One of our quests entails visiting every single capitol building in the USA. Working slowly, we have done 9 out of 50 so far. Read all about it on our Visit all Capitols page.
Travel to Europe
Since Karen was born in the Netherlands, and one of our daughters lived in the UK for a few years, we tend to travel to Europe fairly frequently. Here are some of our tips and tricks for Europe travel:
- How to beat the shell game in Paris After I fell for this tourist scam, I researched and found the best way to win
- How to do Paris on the cheap. A few years ago, we treated two of our daughters to a Paris vacation, so we figured out a way to keep our travel within budget.
- Would you like to see Monet for free? Every time we go to Paris, we try to visit l’Orangerie. Last time we found out how to do it for free!
- Of course you can’t visit Paris without eating good food! Did you know that there are affordable Michelin restaurants in Paris?
- Have you read the book “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt? Where is the actual goldfinch painting?
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Love Coffee? Chocolate? Don Juan’s Is The Real McCoy
Don Juan Coffee plantation in the Monteverde cloud forest in Costa Rica is a must-see. Or maybe we should call it a must-experience, taste and smell. A holistic tour getting you intimately acquainted with coffee, chocolate and sugar. Go find out!
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2020 Hindsight: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
How a travel blogger adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Filled with ways to make the best out of a bad situation, including Corona sourdough, bird watching, local exploring. Read about 2020 finally being hindsight. Carpe Diem!
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Washington State Capitol: What You Always Wanted to Know
Put this National Historic Landmark on your Life after Covid-19 bucket list. The Washington State Capitol is worth a visit. Did you know the role Washington played in the women’s suffrage movement? Or the significance of a Canadian nun? What is the significance of the number 42? Find out these and more #funfacts
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Mill 180 Park and Abandoned Building Brewery
Mill 180 Park and Abandoned Building Brewery Looking for things to do in Easthampton, MA? Go check out this indoors urban park and some great craft breweries. Best travel destinations in the Pioneer Valley in #massachusetts. The world’s first indoor hydroponic park. Micro brewery with IPAs, stouts and hoppy american ales. Go relax in the…
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Great Rewards for Long Delay
Intro Being delayed is never fun, but it is nice that the European regulations will help you get reimbursed for the inconvenience. The rule is EC261/2004. Let me tell you about rewards for a long delay. What happened? Chaos A few years ago we travelled to Italy and flew back from Rome, all using points,…
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Check your Credit Card Rewards Balance
Credit Cards with Rewards Why would you want to check your credit card rewards balance periodically? In our quest to inventory all our debt we logged into all our credit-card accounts to get the current information. We confirmed that yes, we are more in debt than we want to be. But additionally we feel good…
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