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Why I Might Never Fly Southwest Airlines Again

cathy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:08:00 +0000

Earlier this week, I got an email from Southwest Airlines. I haven’t flown with them much in the last few years since I live in Spain now. I also rarely open emails from brands. (Yes, this is why I have 22,461 unread emails in my inbox, a fact that drives Matt crazy.) But something about […]

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How We Booked Two Round-Trip Tickets to Tokyo for $457 with CapitalOne

cathy — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:35:12 +0000

Matt and I have been married for just over six months now, after our destination wedding in Catalunya in late August 2024. And we’ve recently been working on planning our honeymoon trip to Asia, which we’re going to take for our one-year anniversary! So I wanted to share the story of how credit card points […]

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City Review: Bratislava, Slovakia

cathy — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:50:04 +0000

An Eastern European Christmas Market tour this past December was the perfect time to check another new country off the list! After visiting Wroclaw, Poland, and Prague, Czechia — both of which are cities/countries I’d been to before, our last stop was Bratislava, Slovakia. For being the smallest of the cities we visited on this […]

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City Review: Wrocław, Poland

cathy — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:10:00 +0000

This past December, Matt and I set out on our ten-day, three-country Christmas Market tour of Eastern Europe. Our first stop was Wrocław, Poland — a city I visited for the first time on a solo trip back in March 2019. It was really exciting to be back there, especially in such a different situation […]

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UK ETA Visa: What You Need To Know

cathy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:08:07 +0000

Last month, we visited the United Kingdom to spend the first few days of the New Year in Cardiff, Wales. And this weekend, we’ll be heading back to the UK — to Liverpool this time — with a brand new “visa” in hand. This is the new UK ETA visa, or the Electronic Travel Authorisation […]

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Day Trip: Cardiff to the Gower Peninsula

cathy — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:53:24 +0000

I mentioned in my last blog how deciding to visit Cardiff, Wales, in January was quite a choice. ðŸ˜‚ And while we enjoyed our time in Cardiff, the real highlight of our visit to Wales was the day trip we took to the Gower Peninsula. We had considered renting a car in advance of the […]

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City Review: Cardiff, Wales

cathy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:19:57 +0000

Whether it was spending an infernal August in Sevilla, moving to Ecuador for two months, or just visiting the city of Bratislava at all, sometimes we find ourselves planning trips that leave other people with only one question: Why? Our most recent trip — to Cardiff, Wales, on New Year’s Day — was just another […]

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10-Day Itinerary: Eastern Europe Christmas Markets

cathy — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:37:57 +0000

Happy New Year! ðŸŽ‰ It’s hard to believe we’re only two weeks from the one-year anniversary of our big move to Alicante — I guess time flies when you’re having fun. 2024 was a fantastic year of new friends and new places (and our wedding in Catalonia as well), and I can’t wait to see […]

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Bratislava, Slovakia: Christmas Market Review

cathy — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:04:53 +0000

Merry Christmas Eve! After 10 days traveling around Christmas Markets in Wroclaw, Prague, and Bratislava, we’re finally home in Alicante and ready to relax for a few days before our next trip (next week!). I’ll be missing my family tomorrow, but I’m feeling pretty good about our plan to spend every other Christmas in Spain […]

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Prague, Czechia: Christmas Market Review

cathy — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:59:22 +0000

Czech-ing in from stop #2 on our Eastern European Christmas Market: Prague, Czechia! I’m so excited to be back here — my only other visit was in November 2013, and while the Christmas markets weren’t in full swing quite yet, some stalls selling doughy, cinnamon-coated chimney cakes had already started popping up. Just the thought […]

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