Category: Accommodations

Discovering Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh: April 5th, 2026: The Ryanair flight from Düsseldorf-Weeze to Edinburgh (pronounce Edinborough if you want to fit in with the Scottish) was just about a little over an hour long. We arrived on a blustery day, normal for Edinburgh this time of year, which also happened to be Easter Sunday. Adam (manager of Jeeps …

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Getting into the Swing of Things in Mönchengladbach, Germany

Towards the end of our stay in Pineda, we were looking for ways to get from Pineda de Mar to Mönchengladbach, Germany inexpensively and quick, without having to go back to Barcelona. Until about 10 years ago both train or bus transportation were viable options. Then Discount airlines like Ryanair, Transavia, Wizz Air a.o. started …

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A post cruise Stay at Spain’s Costa Brava

In the afternoon of an exhausting pick-pocket experience in Barcelona’s train station, our eyes lit up seeing the Aqua Promenade and Spa Hotel Resort in Pineda de Mar – our hotel for the next seven nights. TJ made a great choice there. The radiant lady at check in told us in perfect English that we …

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Early Spring in Holland

Flying Ryan Air from Stansted, London to Eindhoven, Netherlands is a quick pleasure as long as you stick to their contracted requirements. Have your luggage in properly sized and weighted suitcases and you onboard backpacks according to your purchased plans and you’re fine. If not, you pay a good amount of extra money. We paid …

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A Taste of London

  The train from Southampton dropped us off at Victoria Station in London’s City of Westminster district. We had figured out that a 15 minute walk down Belgrave Rd would bring us to our hotel on Warwick Way. And it did, even with large suitcases down the sidewalk. But before we decided to check in, …

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