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Heading to Curacao and Bonaire Tuesday for a 2-week trip. Just got back from Isla Mujeres 2 weeks ago. More time to travel now that I an retired (for 4 weeks)!
Are you meaning that even months before it was nearly sold out
or your schedule almost made you miss it ??
ps - GREAT travel tips by the way !!
My experience is that Alhambra is sold out online 2 to 3 months ahead of scheduled date. But you can’t book onlinemore than maybe 4 months in advance. So you just have a few weeks to get your tickets.
Latecomers are usually able to still buy into private guided tours instead of going through on their own.
You really are a travel agent! Hope y'all have a wonderful time.Been working on this 6 week fall Europe trip for months. Mostly put together:
As usual, visit family in Amsterdam first, then fly to Lisbon.
- Birdwatching + culture tour in Southern Portugal.
- Week in Segovia and La Granja - staying at Paradores
- Return to Madrid for a few days.
- National Geographic tour of prehistoric cave paintings in northern Spain and southwestern France. Some of which are over 40,000 years old!
- A few days in Bordeaux including a couple of wine tours in the countryside.
You really are a travel agent! Hope y'all have a wonderful time.
Thanks!
This time we’re doing two longish organized small group tours with a week break in between. So I’m having to do far less planning/booking - quite a break for me! We’ll see how it goes.
Well, we did a big trip to southern Spain and Madrid (central) last year, and loved it. Both were great. In spite of it being a large city, I was very comfortable wandering around downtown Madrid, even at night, so we look forward to a return. Andalusia (southern Spain) was delightful. All public transportation (trains, buses, the occasional taxi). What did you want to know?I hope you will give us a review when you return. We might consider Spain for next year though probably not for driving.
Air fares are low. Finally booked six weeks Sept/Oct in Europe. Fly into Athens and back from London. Very loose schedule other than the hard air travel dates. Preceded by a week in the Toronto area.
Start in Corfu and the Ionian Islands, then over to Athens and more islands, to Crete. Then either two weeks or so in Cyprus or we will fly to Morocco for two weeks if we want a change of scenery. Maybe pick up a last minute cruise. We are very pragmatic....we fill in the blanks later. Decided to pass on Israel this year since it is not high on out bucket lists.
Air fares are low. Finally booked six weeks Sept/Oct in Europe. Fly into Athens and back from London. Very loose schedule other than the hard air travel dates. Preceded by a week in the Toronto area.
Start in Corfu and the Ionian Islands, then over to Athens and more islands, to Crete. Then either two weeks or so in Cyprus or we will fly to Morocco for two weeks if we want a change of scenery. Maybe pick up a last minute cruise. We are very pragmatic....we fill in the blanks later. Decided to pass on Israel this year since it is not high on out bucket lists.
. My wife's already planning taking her oldest daughter to London-Paris-Barcelona.
She has to make required distributions from her 401K, and her daughter's going to get the $ anyway. They may as well enjoy it together.
Well, we did a big trip to southern Spain and Madrid (central) last year, and loved it. Both were great. In spite of it being a large city, I was very comfortable wandering around downtown Madrid, even at night, so we look forward to a return. Andalusia (southern Spain) was delightful. All public transportation (trains, buses, the occasional taxi). What did you want to know?
This year we're renting a car for our week in Segovia, driving up from the Madrid airport. First time renting a car in Europe, but the route looks fairly straightforward highway driving, and we are staying in Paradores with ample parking. Normally we use public transportation, but the logistics for visiting Segovia and La Granja de San Idelfonso are too difficult for a multiple day trip like we plan.
We are thinking of hiking the Italian Dolomites Sept 2020. Any experiences from others would be appreciated.
First thought for our next hike would have been Patagonia, but Ms G thinks she might be too cold.
I believe they do offer half board. We tend to stick to the breakfast only included. The food is usually very good at the Parador. We've definitely enjoyed an occasional lunch there. And wouldn't mind dinner or tapas if we didn't want to go out - if we have a big lunch we usually don't want much dinner or have collected some goodies to snack on.Do the Paradores offer half-board options, like dinners?
I haven't looked at them much but I think many of them are located away from town centers, so to get dinner, you might have to drive.
They do look beautiful though seems expensive compared to comparable accommodations.
Heading to Curacao and Bonaire Tuesday for a 2-week trip. Just got back from Isla Mujeres 2 weeks ago. More time to travel now that I an retired (for 4 weeks)!