A few months ago I started looking for somewhere new to go over Memorial Day weekend. We knew international travel probably wouldn’t be open and UK staycation prices were intense with it also being a UK bank holiday weekend in addition to our USA holiday weekend. I priced out numerous hotels in different places and … Continue reading Sheffield- Memorial Day Weekend 2021 →

I last minute decided we needed to do a quick trip to Edinburgh because Scotland had made it so people were allowed to eat indoors and England hadn't yet. Yes, I chose to book a 5 hour train trip just so we could eat out. I booked our train tickets from Bury St Edmunds where … Continue reading Long Weekend in Edinburgh- May 2021 →

I'm super lucky and my husband is ridiculously supportive of my solo travels so I arranged a sitter for the kids while he was at work and spent a week alone in the Highlands. I try to do a solo kid/family free trip once a year (along with some random weekends). It feeds my soul. … Continue reading Solo Inverness, Scotland Sept 13-20, 2020 →

With limited options of travel I decided it would be nice to get away for a long weekend to Belfast. Main goals were to do the Titanic stuff and do a day tour to Giants Causeway and the Dark Hedges. Thursday August 13, 2020 London Thursday I took a late train from the town I … Continue reading Belfast Long Weekend 2020 →

Day 5, August 5- Edinburgh Zoo I pre-booked at 1pm zoo slot and we chose to lazy around in the morning. I'm pretty cheap when traveling so we did breakfast in the room. I also went to Calton Hill to see the Scottish-American soldiers memorial with Abraham Lincoln (I left the kids in the room … Continue reading Edinburgh August 1-8, Part 2 →

I had all these amazing plans of beefing up my blog during 2020. I had some amazing trips planned to Scotland, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands... the list goes on. Like all travelers around the world my plans cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We thankfully lost very little money of the thousands we … Continue reading Traveling during COVID-19 →

As an American living in England I admit that I had no clue how big soccer, AKA football is here in Europe until we really started living here. After hearing that people have literally died going to games due to mass stampedes and poor crowd control I began to take it a bit more seriously. … Continue reading How we got Manchester United tickets for family of 4 and only spent £196 instead of £400+ →

Embarkation We arrived at the cruise port around 9am knowing that we would have to be bused to Trieste. Our AirBnB host was nice enough to call us a minivan taxi and we all rode together. It was about 40 euros with tip. It was a pretty quick process on arrival to Venice cruise port. … Continue reading MSC Magnifica- November 24, 2019 Venice- Greece and Montenegro →