Travel Lessons Learnt #2 : Why you should always get to the airport early

May 19, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Ever missed your flight? Imagine waking up at 5:30am, and waking up a 3 year old and 1 year old. Getting everyone ready, into a taxi, to the airport. Making it to the check-in line, and when asked where you were heading to, the staff simply asks you to join the queue. Get to the […]

Sicily with Kids : The Highlights – Part 1

May 10, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Going through the many photos we took at Sicily makes me want to go on another holiday. The wine, the blue skies with ginormous fluffy cloud. The pasta, the tiramisu, the landscape. The big grin on the 3-year old’s face as she devoured the gelato (and the tantrums that followed on when I attempted to […]

Sicily : Where we stayed : Schuler Residence, Taormina

April 18, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

I spend a lot of time researching where to go when it comes to holidays. I didn’t personally know anyone who had been, so had to ask around for advice in facebook groups and just read a million reviews on booking.com and tripadvisor.com. Schuler Residence (click here, see Apartment Type D) in Taormina caught my […]

Travel Lessons Learnt #1 : Why you should always get insurance for your car rental excess

April 13, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Planning for holidays involves a lot of research and hard work. You hope everything goes to plan, but sometimes, sh*t happens. Here’s the first of our Travel Lessons Learnt series.

Romania : Where we stayed : Kronwell Brasov Hotel

January 15, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

I got a little confused when researching on where to stay in Brasov. After a lot of reading up of reviews, we finally settled on Kronwell. It looked modern, clean, there was parking, and I was running out of time – we had to agree on somewhere. We ended up staying for 3 nights here, […]

Romania : Where we stayed : Intercontinental Hotel Bucharest

January 4, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

We spent the first two nights of our stay in Romania, in the heart of the city – Bucharest. We figured two nights would do it justice, before we went on our road-trip to the outskirts towards Brasov. Extremely glad that we started our Romanian holiday in Intercontinental Hotel Bucharest – situated just a 10-minute […]

Winter Wonderland in Romania : The Highlights

January 2, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

Romania, what a surprise. We booked ourselves onto a very last-minute trip to Romania on Fly Dubai for Christmas, to return to Dubai for New Year’s Eve. Truth be told, we had a great flight with them to Bucharest – flight was half-full which meant we could put the munchkin down to her own seat […]

Our lil Country House getaway @ Villa Carolina Sorrento, Italy

September 12, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

When you start researching for somewhere to stay in the Amalfi, you could literally spend hours looking at where to base yourself, then after you’re done reading all the blogs, reviews, and recommendations, you’ll need to figure out which exact hotel you want to stay. It’s not cheap in Italy – I’m sure you already […]