Top 9 Places to Spend New Year’s Eve

If money were no object, where in the world would you like to ring in the New Year? The question has been stuck in my head pretty much since I started planning our New Year’s Eve escape. In general we’d stay home, but this time we are traveling. To Budapest, Hungary. It’s close, it’s cheap,…

4 Things I like about Arad

I’ve been living in Arad, Romania all my life (that’s 30 years). I learned to love my city , but I also hate it with all my heart. It’s a constant love-hate relationship between us, I must admit. I love the spring with its bright green and I love the fall with its superb foliage.…

How To: Packing Light for Ladies

Which part do you despise about travel? If you are like me, then it’s the packing and list writing before, during and after packing. First off, I write a list of the things I need. Here’s what it contains (for a week or even two, meant for a city break): medicine: birth control pills, vitamins…

Moneasa, Romania – a not-so-hidden gem

For our a year and a half anniversary (since we’ve been dating) I decided to plan a long weekend in Moneasa, a mountain resort located 110 km from where we live. We both been there before but not together. So, close by, affordable, good idea. Right? It wasn’t until Thursday last week that I got…

The Bucket List

I am pretty sure everyone has a bucket list. And if they haven’t written it down, they have it in their heads. Even if you have a New Year’s Resolutions list, that’s also a bucket list. A while ago (make it two years, n.a.2010), I’ve written such a list on an older blog of mine…

Airline Review: WizzAir

When I started planning our March escape, inevitably I chose WizzAir for the flight to Italy because they fly from Timisoara (which is 50 km from where we live). So, with a Rome flight bagged for March, we were happy. I liked their booking process and I loved that they told you EXACTLY how much…

Airline Review: EasyJet

EasyJet has won several awards for best European low-cost carrier. I have read quite a lot about them but until this year I haven’t flown on any of their flights. The online booking system was very easy and straight forward. And I absolutely loved that they allowed me to print my boarding card a month…

Airline Review: Blue Air (Bankrupt)

Update March 2023: Blue Air has declared bankruptcy, after having suspended all its flights back in September 2022. We flew Blue Air in March 2011 on the Bucharest – London – Bucharest route. Although I won the tickets (with an article I wrote about low-cost carriers), this fact doesn’t interfere with my opinion about the…