We were both under the weather yesterday morning - chronic SOS after our 2 day sightseeing marathon. We self-prescribed a couple of days of R&R and at least six hot tubs per day. Nothing too serious mind - just 'Scenery Overload Syndrome'. Our cabin may be lacking an actual geyser/waterfall/lagoon of floating icebergs/diamond beach on it's doorstep... but we're pretty much still smack bang in the middle of glorious, wintry scenery. It's even snowed a few ti...

If you had asked us a week ago what we would be doing on the night of 12 March, we would have said, "Second night in Reykjavik, probably done a walking tour that day". Given that the vast majority of this trip was nutted out six months ago... we would definitely have said that. But what's life without a tiny bit of spontaneity? Somewhere in my online travels I saw mention of an ice lagoon... where small ice bergs (or massive ice cubes) break off a glacier, flo...

Flight from Bucharest to Stockholm to Iceland. Does that sound like a big day? You betcha! We kicked off at 3.45 am (that's 1.45 am Iceland time), breakfast at the hotel was at 4 am and we were on the shuttle to the airport at 4.45 am. We are now firm fans of Blue Air, Romania's budget carrier. We've flown them 3 times, they've always left early (and arrived early) and they've always responded well to sweet talk at check in (that's code for could we possibly have...

No. More. Early. Flights. It's a mantra that we try to live by. A bit like "Never, Ever Pay Retail". We manage the latter much better than the former. By early we mean 8.45 am for a domestic trip from Timisoara to Bucharest (only 1 hr 15 in a prop plane). But we know that on Romanian flights if the check in cut off is 45 minutes prior... then 80% of passengers will turn up at the 55 minutes prior point and security becomes a scrum. We are all in favour of avo...

We have just spent 10 nights in our last Romanian city - Timisoara (Timmy-shwa-rah). We have been vulturing again... culture-vulturing that is (thank you to Marilyn & Dennis in the USA for the new verb). In fact we've been told by another friend that it is possible to overdo culture - be it opera or yoghurt. We have explained to him that we have 3 months coming up in Australia/New Zealand - the sort of tickets we've been paying €10-€20 for between us.....