Like quite a few of our European trips, this trip was built around available award flights. High on the list was Paris (to see the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral) and Sicily. In July 2025, I found a Dallas to Paris flight for two on Delta in April. While not a bargain, the miles required were […]
Europe
Bulgaria October 2025
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 […]
Romania October 2025
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 […]
Segovia April 2025
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 […]
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, […]