Getting Ready To Ski in Bulgaria- Day 3 Part 1
Skiing. I love it. I love winter, to be honest, love the snow, and all winter sports that I’ve tried. Growing up, I went skiing a few times, and got pretty good at it pretty quickly. The first time I skied, I started off on the beginner slope, then went to level 1 and then […]
Day 2 of Our Family Trip in Bulgaria — Lots and Lots of Fun
When I wrote up about my first day in Bulgaria with my kids, I mentioned how many things went not as planned, and how I learned my lesson about needing to tailor my trip to my kids taste and needs and be extremely, extremely flexible. I must admit that in the past, when I saw […]
Day 1 in Bulgaria with My Family- A Day Full of Lessons
Today was… a day full of lessons. All sorts of lessons. About interesting things and frustrated things, and while I would love to say it was an amazing, tremendous, stupendous day, to be honest, more than anything today I felt frustration. However, out of all that frustration came lessons, and with those lessons hopefully ideas […]
Arrived in Bulgaria… At Long Last!
Today was quite a long day, I must say. Last night, I stayed up relatively late getting last minute packing and preparation done for our family’s trip to Bulgaria, and this morning we all were out the door and on the bus at 6:30. To get to our destination, we had many legs of our […]
How I Book Airfare for Vacations Super Cheaply
Every single time I talk about going on vacation super cheaply, I get people asking me “But how do you get tickets so cheaply? How do you actually do it?” And each time, I answer Skyscanner.com, Skyscanner.com, Skyscanner.com. But apparently that isn’t enough of an answer because even with me telling people that that’s how […]
Navigating Cities with Public Transportations
Intercity bus, from Cleveland to NYC I live somewhere with amazing public transportation. We have very cheap buses very frequently to the nearby city, and both seven minutes away and fifteen minutes away I can transfer to a variety of other buses that can get me pretty much to any part of my region that […]
Our Big Family Trip to Sofia, Bulgaria!
For as long as my kids could talk, pretty much, they wanted to fly on an airplane. But we had no money, and most our of family was local, so we never flew anywhere. For the first 7 years I lived in this country, I didn’t fly anywhere, and when I finally did, it was […]
Lessons Learned On My Recent Trip to the US and London
Don’t worry, I still have a few more posts I wanted to write about what I did on my trip to London, but I wanted to share some lessons I learned with you on my recent trip to the US (New York and Cleveland) and London. Some of these lessons are location specific, but mostly […]
Geeking Out in London on a Budget!
Me with the Platform 9 3/4 sign… in Primark! I’m a geek. When I was younger I used to be embarrassed by it, but at this stage in my life, I wear my geek label with pride. Oh, and I’m a Hufflepuff. And a Whovian. And a firbolg druid multiclassing as a barbarian in our […]
Quintessentially British Touring, Nearly For Free
I had such a whirlwind of a time in the US, taking care of one errand after another, traveling from one city to another and then back again, trying to see as many friends and family as I could, that I basically didn’t have a moment to breathe. And other than my one Sunday where […]