Home We Go
The flight not leaving home wasn’t until late in the day, so we spent most of the day at the hotel. The person who checked us entering the cafeteria removed our wristbands so that we couldn’t partake of any free alcohol for the rest of…
Costa de la Luz – Time for a Massage
The lady walked us back pasts the Jacuzzi and sauna into a colder area before separating us. She took me into a small room with a massage table, a few lit candles, and other paraphernalia items that one might expect in a massage room. Through…
Costa de la Luz – Out for an Evening Dinner
Breakfast buffet – pool – sun – lunch – more pool and sun – Dinner For dinner, we decided to forgo the buffet and walk down to a little restaurant we had seen earlier. The buffet was okay in the sense that it was included,…
Costa de la Luz – The Sketch Show
The previous night was a restless one. The bed as solid as a rock, okay, maybe not a rock but still pretty solid which made getting a good nights sleep difficult. That compiled with a headache that took most of the night to go away,…
Costa de la Luz – Day 1
Why do so many trips start with such an early morning flight? In our case that meant getting up at 4:00 in the morning for a 7:40 flight. On the plus side, it was a direct and short flight, on an airline that was not…
Broken Car Rental Window and Chase Card Benefit Services – Part 2
If you have read the first part of this story, which was about the car break in, it is now time to get into dealing with filing an insurance claim with Chase Card Benefit Services. After my car was broken into on January 28, 2018,…
Antelope Park – Home of the ALERT Lion Rehabilitation Project
A few years ago I visited Antelope Park in Zimbabwe through a company called Africa Impact. One of the things they are trying to do there is a lion rehabilitation and release into the wild program. The rehabilitation and reintroduction program uses a four-stage process to introduce lions…
Belgrade Day 2 – Breakfast
After a restless night on a bed of solid rock that smelled of cigarette smoke, we woke to showers with a shower that was a spray nozzle without a wall mount to hang it from. Basically showering involved holding the nozzle to get wet, setting…
Scotland The Final
I’ll skip over days nine and ten as they were spent relaxing around the hotel, see a few sites, getting messages and sleeping in. The whisky trip as a whole was a success in the achieved goal of visiting numerous Scottish distillates, having a relaxing…
Scotland Day 8
On the way to what would be our final hotel for the trip as we worked out way back to the real world, we stopped at Dalwhinnie Which is one of the highest distilleries in Ireland but more importantly they do whisky tastings which are…
