No Floating Market for You

As mentioned in previous posts, we take pride in planning our own travel, everything from flights and hotels to walking tours and excursions. We also recognize how fortunate we are to have taken some wonderful trips over the past few years. With travel, there is an occasional fuck up. We encountered that this past Sunday. […]

Second Cities

This past October we spent nearly a month in Portugal visiting Porto, Lisbon, Douro Valley, and The Algarve. This was our second time in Lisbon; we were first there with our kids in 2012. It was our first visit to Porto, the second city of Portugal, and we fell in love with the city. Now, […]

Wat a Day

Back at the hotel after spending most of our first full day in Bangkok visiting different Wats (Buddhist temples). Our first stop was the Grand Palace, the official residents of the Kings of Siam (now Thailand) since 1782. Over 8 million people visit the Grand Palace annually and the complex’s contains numerous gardens and buildings […]