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 …
Our 6 nights in London went by very quickly. The first day, or rather, evening, was spent at the immigration and getting to our apartment. This took us longer than expected but we were eventually home. The AirBNB host advised us to get some food before getting into our apartment as we would be too …
About 12 months ago, I approached my wife with a really absurd idea. I wanted to do a long trip around Europe. 6 to 9 months actually. The reasons for this, at that time, were actually just to spend time with my family. Of course, at that time, it was just a crazy idea. Especially …
So we reached Gatwick Airport, London, safe and sound with Norweigian Airlines (do read my other post about the review of the airlines) and we had also booked a car with Sixt car rental for our 6 nights in London which we booked with Ryanair car rental. At Gatwick Airport, the immigration and bag collection …
About a year and a half ago, my wife, Arwa and I, started to encourage our kids to blog in an attempt to improve their overall English. We figured if they could write an article or two every month, they would be able to think creatively, do some research on some of the topics they …