Category: Accommodations

Long awaited dream of visiting Seaton Village in the UK

Our transatlantic Princess cruise 2025 intentionally ended in Southampton UK, as it was about a two hour drive from my long awaited dream of visiting Seaton Village in the UK. Caught a taxi to the airport to pick up our rental car, which I was not on board about but Han really wanted the car. …

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Our Cruise ends in Pireaus/Athens, Greece

Today, April 10 our cruise ends in Piraeus, the port city for Athens, Greece. Hard to believe that the last 30 days were spent on a giant cruise ship with some 3,000 other passengers and we still felt like we had not had enough time on the water.  Fourteen destinations later we had arrived in …

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A Fourteen Day Trans-Atlantic Princess Cruise

A Fourteen day trans-atlantic Princess cruise was on the menu, now that a land vacation seemed out of the question because of Covid concerns and different international procedures. Beyond a 5 days Bahama’s cruise on Carnival in 2016, we had not done much cruising except for some Caribbean Tallship Trips when Windjammer Barefoot Charters operated …

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Caught on Beaver Island as Covid 19 becomes a global pandemic

After a couple of years globetrotting as interim innkeepers, we decided in 2019, to reply to a job offer on the website workingcouples.com, for a seasonal management job on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Boutique Hotel Beaver Island Lodge with 14 rooms and suites and a separate log cabin was looking for operational managers …

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AirBNB’ing Our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin

For our winter travels we decided this year on a monthlong Airbnb’ing our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin in the West Indies. We left our life on St.Maarten where we had met in 2004, during the Great Recession in 2008/09 as the economy had decimated tourism and consequently our internet related marketing and promotion businesses. Han …

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