Life in the Land of the Ice and Snow
Infiltrating Sweden one cinnamon bun at a time
My husband and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in Budapest! We had a great time. Surprisingly, no virus-related problems. Flights were on time (and full), every place we wanted to go was open excluding one ruin bar because of a 100 person capacity restriction. I’ll write my observations and thoughts on Budapest later. …
As I mentioned before, my husband and I took a 4-day long anniversary trip to Italy this past weekend. With only 4 days, we wanted every minute to count, which turned out to be a problem when the Italians decided to strike at the Rome airport. Our plane was delayed 3 hours until they could …
Have you ever been around a peacock for a long amount of time? They have the most horrifying scream. There’s no way a peacock could make someone calm. Now, when it comes to meetings with people I don’t like, however, this would totally come in handy. I gotta get one of these.
So Delta airlines had pizza delivered to waiting passengers on a plane during the recent delays caused by their computer system. My thoughts: Can we please just do this every time instead of airline food? I will pay extra. Do the delivery guys get tips in airline tickets? And still, Pizza Hut won’t deliver to …
Time to head outta Texas and get back to Sweden. Here’s what planes look like in Texas of course.
As an American/Swedish family, we make the big trip across the Atlantic once a year for vacation. It’s almost that time again, so I thought I’d share my tips for overseas flying. 1. European airlines have free alcoholic drinks. 2. There is no way to make a 1 hour layover at Charles de Gaulle in …
Let me tell you a little story about a trip we took on one of these discount airlines. To protect the airlines identity, I’ll call them Lyin Air. We chose Lyin Air because we found a price to our destination that was incredibly low and because it was hard to believe anything could be that …
I’m looking though Singapore Airlines webpage and trying to fill in a form. I have to say, all the airlines I’ve ever used only give a choice of “Mr., Mrs., Miss, Mstr.” Singapore Airlines has a drop-down menu of possibly 50 different titles including, “Duchess, Sultan, Queen, President, etc.” I have a feeling this airline …