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, …
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 …
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 …
My brother’s family is in town and today the we took the kids to do something that we have done ever so often when my brother and I were kids ourselves, longkang fishing. The concept is pretty simple, in the old days, when the water was not so deep, we would head to the longkang …