So after our horrendous first experience with RyanAir, read about it here, we took a second RyanAir flight from Rome to Paris. This time, fortunately, there were no issues with the check in process and we were allowed to take our flights as planned. The flight was also on-time and just like the usual situation …
Being in Rome, the first thing we had to do was to visit the Colosseum. To familiarize my kids with what this building was, roughly and for them to be more familiar for the visit including visualizing the arena, I watched the movie Gladiator with my family. My kids loved the movie and after the …
After our really nice stay in Ponsacco, http://www.topiwalla.com/2017/12/11-days-ponsacco-children/, we travelled further south, in search of a warmer place to stay, to Rome. We searched and searched and could not find a suitable apartment that fit our budget on AirBNB. We finally found one in another similar site, VRBO. VRBO was a little confusing at …
After our stay in Carugate, http://www.topiwalla.com/2017/12/3-days-in-milan-with-a-family/, we now moved to Ponsacco, Italy where we stayed for a total of 11 days and 10 nights. This was quite a decision to make as we were contemplating this place against other larger, nearby cities such as Bologna and Florence. However, as we had a car and also because …
Just hot on the heels of our fantastic first week in Sala Mandelli, realising it was not too cold, we gathered up some courage to move a little up north to Milan. Milan was always in our plans as a place to visit and Arwa had already prepared some landmarks or places we had to …
So from our last post, The Europe adventure begins, we had taken our flight out to Italy with the horrendous RyanAir and eventually picked up our car, a Ford Focus stationwagon, from Goldcar to reach our nice, quaint home in Sala Mandelli for 6 nights. This was our first stop in the Schengen area for which, …
22nd November, Finally. We were all ready for our first flight out of UK and we had booked RyanAir’s flight from London to Turin. The flight was to depart from Stansted which was really far from London, but then again, so is Gatwick – so if you want cheap, I guess you need to travel …
The trip of ours of course did not begin with booking a flight but sometime in the year, we read about a new low cost flight from Singapore to London. The fares offered by Norwegian airlines were extremely low and as it was a direct flight, the entire flight duration would be reduced quite a …
There was a silver lining after our horrible experience with RyanAir (read more about it at : http://www.topiwalla.com/2017/11/horrible-experience-ryanair/). We were forced to quickly look for another place near Milan and at the same time, quickly postpone our AirBNB at Turin, where I really wanted to go as there was a chocolate festival going on there. All …
While in Piacenza, where we have reached on the 22nd of November (read more about it at : The Europe adventure begins), we visited a small place near Sala Mandelli called Bobbio. Seeing as to how we missed our visit to the chocolate festival in Turin due to our missed flight, we were recommended a visit …