Europe

I arrived at Sofia airport Saturday morning. At the arrivals hall, I located a person with my name on a sign, who led me to a driver who took me to my hotel. With my morning arrival, my room was not ready. It was raining in Sofia. I pulled my raincoat out of my luggage […]

My planning for this European trip started with a search for flights over the pond using frequent flyer miles. I was looking for a window of about two weeks either before or after my grandson’s early October birthday. I found a great deal on Iberia Airlines to Madrid that matched up perfectly with a group […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]