How we got to Cairo We flew into Cairo from Istanbul. I gave more details about our travel route in my previous post. Right after we deplaned, and before we got to the immigration area, a representative from or tour company greeted us. He escorted us to the section where...
I’ll use this first post to give an overview of our nine (9) night trip to Egypt (including a one night stop over in Istanbul, Turkey) and some general tips. I will then follow up with a series of posts breaking down what we did in each region that we...
The Turkish Airlines Stopover Program I’ll start off the content of our trip to Egypt with a short post regarding taking advantage of the Turkish Airlines Stopover Program. The Turkish Airlines Stopover Program offers passengers transiting through Istanbul the opportunity to spend some time in the city on the way...
In this first post I give an overview of our 10 night trip to Italy and some general tips. I will then follow up with a series of posts breaking down what we did in each region that we visited.
With everything that has been going on globally and personally over the last couple years, it took me quite some time to come back and finish these last set of posts from this trip. I wondered if it made sense in doing so after so much time had passed. However...
How we got to Cairo We flew into Cairo from Istanbul. I gave more details about our travel route in my previous post. Right after we deplaned, and before we got to the immigration area, a representative from or tour company greeted us. He escorted us to the section where...
I’ll use this first post to give an overview of our nine (9) night trip to Egypt (including a one night stop over in Istanbul, Turkey) and some general tips. I will then follow up with a series of posts breaking down what we did in each region that we...
The Turkish Airlines Stopover Program I’ll start off the content of our trip to Egypt with a short post regarding taking advantage of the Turkish Airlines Stopover Program. The Turkish Airlines Stopover Program offers passengers transiting through Istanbul the opportunity to spend some time in the city on the way...
In this first post I give an overview of our 10 night trip to Italy and some general tips. I will then follow up with a series of posts breaking down what we did in each region that we visited.
With everything that has been going on globally and personally over the last couple years, it took me quite some time to come back and finish these last set of posts from this trip. I wondered if it made sense in doing so after so much time had passed. However...
I had planned to be in Italy for my vacation this year, however Covid-19 had other plans. Instead I was able to enjoy an unexpected staycation on the South Coast of Jamaica. Now while the South Coast doesn’t get as much buzz as our popular resort areas, there are so...
Machu Pichhu is of course the highlight of many a trip to Peru and the Cusco region, and it was no different for me. This has always been a bucket-list item, and in fact I planned my entire trip around being at Machu Picchu on my birthday! There are several...
In my previous post I gave a general overview of our trip, including details of how we got to Lima. The next stop after our overnight at kangaroo Wasi was a flight to Cusco the next morning. We had arranged the round trip with the taxi company that we took from the night before, so getting back to the airport was pretty painless.
I’ll use this first post to give an overview of our 11-day trip to Peru and some general tips. I will then follow up with a series of posts breaking down what we did in each region that we visited. The main regions we visited were: Getting to Peru Getting...
Istanbul. I really, truly enjoyed this part of the trip and I can definitely say that I would return. We only scratched the surface of what there is to see and do in Istanbul, and Turkey by extension. How we got to Istanbul The flight from Athens was straightforward. Before...
