We were so excited to visit Northern Ireland and I can honestly say, I haven't been as curious about a culture and as eager to visit a place in a long time! After reading stories about its incredible landscapes and the warm welcoming people we had to see and experience it for ourselves. When an opportunity to housesit in Belfast presented itself we jumped at the opportunity to …
Greene King Brewery, The Magna Carta, and King Henry’s Favorite Sister
Bury St. Edmunds is a robust market town between Cambridge and Ipswich in Suffolk, England. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it, we hadn’t either until we secured a house sit in the small city of just over 100000 people. Bury St. Edmunds is home to ruins of a medieval abbey, Suffolk’s only cathedral, the only remaining Regency Theatre in England, and the Greene King Brewery. …
Norwegians Dreamliner: The Best Flight we Have Ever Taken
I am the nervous flyer in our family, Rob is always cool as a cucumber on planes, and Makai can hardly contain his excitement to get up in the air. I am a lot better than I was; more flight experiences and learning about the principles of flight has helped me feel much less anxiety. We have taken nine flights over the last year. Eight of these flights were standard in our …
Bucharest – The Peoples Palace
In the heart of Bucharest there stands an imposing giant, a Palace of epic proportions. The gigantic structure, The Peoples Palace was the brainchild of a Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. Its construction cost the Romanian people billions of dollars and so much more as a nation. Back in the early 1980's, Churches, Synagogues, businesses and an estimated fifty thousand …
London Airbnb Welcome Home
Traveling to London was exhausting! It was definitely one of our tougher travel days. We took an overnight flight from Fort Lauderdale and arrived in London eight hours later at 12:30pm London time. The flight was quiet and smooth but Rob and I didn’t sleep, Mak did get six hours of shut eye. We arrived in sunny London and clamored off the plane filled with excitement. We …