Timing is everything! I had a flight to Paris, with a scheduled 1 hour 25-minute connection at CDG airport, then on to Madrid. I knew from my Air France flight updates that my 12:30pm flight had been delayed to 1:00pm. The reason for the delay was a first for me–The Tbilisi airport would be closed […]
Trips
Georgia (Days 6-10) April 2025
We left Kutaisi in the morning. By now, I had substantially recovered from the food poisining, and was feeling good. Our first stop was a town nearby where there used to be 21 sanitoriums in Soviet times. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the facilities were all closed. Three have been refurbished in recent […]
Georgia (Days 1 – 5) April 2025
Business class, for most travel within Europe, is essentially economy with an unoccupied seat next to you. The seats are the same 3 x 3 as in the economy section, but the middle seat is blocked. A nice exception to that and a pleasant surprise was Turkish Airlines. I had a nice, wide, leather seat, […]
Sarajevo April 2025
In the fall of 2024, I began planning a trip that involved a guided tour of the country of Georgia. I then began searching for airline frequent flyer mile deals. I ultimately found an interesting flight combination where I could start my trip with three days in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and […]
Travel back to the U.S.
On our departure day on Tuesday, we had to vacate our Airbnb by 10am. But our flight was not until 1:25 pm. Since we had plenty of time, we decided to spend an entire €1,06 for both of us to get to the airport on public transportation. We took tram 11 just a few steps […]
Back to Zagreb
Sunday was Flixbus day again, this time a scheduled 4 hours and 15 minutes from Budapest to Zagreb. We walked two blocks from our Airbnb to the stop for Tram 49. The yellow tram arrived right on schedule. We wheeled our luggage onto the tram, and about 20 minutes later we were at our stop […]