Our Super Frugal Beach Camping Trip, The Last Two Days
A few hours ago, we got home from our family’s longest camping trip ever, five days and four nights camping on the beach. To get there entailed taking one bus, then three trains, then another bus, plus a bit of walking… but it was well worth it. The kids and I had a wonderful time, […]
Our Frugal Beach Camping Vacation: The First Three Days
I’ve been planning this five day beach camping trip with my kids pretty much since our similar but shorter trip last year. Slowly I’ve been stocking up on supplies from cheap places, learning from our mistakes last year, to make this trip as great as possible, but still as the date approached I was filled […]
My Frugal Greek Vacation, Crete Day 6, Tsikalaria, Souda
My sixth day in Greece… honestly, there’s not so much to write about. It was the day after I completed the 14 kilometer Samaria Gorge hike, more than half of it with a sprained ankle and an injured knee. The morning of my hike, the taxi driver bringing me to the gathering point told me […]
Making Banana Flower Salad
On my trip to Greece, most of the food I saw being sold was pretty standard, not things that made me go “huh?” Other than this. This was in Vera’s mom’s fridge and I had never seen them before. Her mom called it banana hearts, which Vera told me is a banana flower, and that […]
My Frugal Greek Vacation, Crete Day 5, Samaria Gorge
Yesterday I had quite a day. Originally we’d planned on going to the pink beach in Elafonisi, but because of bad wind, we decided to ditch that. Samaria Gorge is a hike that is really special to Crete, and in fact, is the longest gorge in all of Europe, and has some amazing sights, but […]
My Frugal Greek Vacation, Crete Day 4, Chania
Today just finished my fourth day in my Cretan Greek vacation. One thing I’m absolutely loving about Greece is how laid back everything is here. Today, after a relatively late night in town last night, we slept in and had a pretty chilled out morning. We, Vera, her friend Mariana, and I then headed into […]
My Frugal Greek Vacation — Crete Day 2 and 3, Chania
My second and third day of my Cretan vacation have been so wonderful, but been busy, so I’ve combined them into one post. The one thing that I can say about the city Chania is that it literally exudes charm. Every place has been more picturesque… Than the next… Just walking around the city… Gives […]
My Frugal Greek Vacation — Crete, Day 1, Chania
I am running on fumes, because I got fewer than 4 hours of sleep over the past 24 hours, but I wanted to get this post up already, because I know many people are anxious to hear about my trip. As soon as I finish this, then I’ll go to bed. I had an early […]
Preparations Before Traveling Abroad, a Checklist
I’m on my way to the airport now, and tomorrow early morning I’m on my way to Crete, Greece. My amazing friend Vera, who is visiting her mom there from New Zealand, paid for me to fly there and get this much needed vacation, not to mention hosting me for an entire week. It has […]
All About Our Recent Family Trip
I posted before about our planned family trip and now that we’re home, recovered, and back to normal life (or at least as normal as can be when one kid has a broken finger and stitches), I wanted to share how wonderful our trip was. When planning our family trip, my first goal was looking for a […]