Stranded in Venice, Italy Part 8

Coming back to Venezia/St. Lucia, I felt as if we were coming home. We didn’t expect to be gone so long. It was near 6pm. As we walked into our hotel the desk person stopped us, “Madame, 222?” They know us by our room number. “If you wouldn’t mind, we would like to put you [...]

Posted on April 11, 2011 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Not Much to do with the Beach, Travel | Leave a Comment

The Unexpected Vacation in Venice, Part #7

At our favorite deli we can get a huge slice of pizza for 1E or 2E with meat. They also have sandwiches, falafel, gyros, french-fries and whole chicken. We will be eating here for a lot less that sit down cloth napkin restaurant that took our credit card. We are most happy when eating, it [...]

Posted on March 3, 2011 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Travel | Leave a Comment

Unexpected Venice Vacation #6

Monday, April 19 I’ve been awake since 6:15. Decided to do my hair and makeup. I’ve looked like a wreck for 2 days now. I’m brushing my teeth when I’m pretty sure I hear a plane. The windows are open. The sky is clear blue. It’s been mostly cloudy since we have been here. I [...]

Posted on December 30, 2010 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Travel | Leave a Comment

Venice Vacation #5

When we thought it was about 6 am at home we called the family. I did not have international calling on my cell phone at this point. Didn’t need it on the ship where we communicated by email and facebook. So I used the hotel phone. Sally will try to contact Affordable Tours and our [...]

Posted on December 29, 2010 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Travel | 1 Comment

An Unexpected Venice Vacation Part 4

(See part 3 of Venice Vacation) I began to gather a care package for Jodi, Lorinda and the kids. I gave them our last trail mix and a couple apples. Lorinda took the kids back to their stateroom to get them to bed. It was now about 10:00 pm. Jodi stopped by our room to [...]

Posted on October 28, 2010 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Travel, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

An Unexpected Venice Vacation Part 3

See the beginning of the Venice Vacation, and the part 2 of being stranded in Venice. Jodi spent the evening on the internet searching airports while her husband, Matt, in England was doing the same. She was in the internet café and all the stations were filled with people trying to make other plans. She [...]

Posted on June 25, 2010 Filed Under Travel, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

An Unexpected Vacation in Venice, Part 2

See the beginning of the Venice Vacation here. I went up to the Windjammer for coffee late afternoon and overheard some folks who were from the same UK Air Force base as Jodi. They were talking about how their flights were going to be later tomorrow – but no worry. Friday evening was our last [...]

Posted on June 18, 2010 Filed Under Travel, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

An Unexpected Vacation in Venice

Here is a continuation of my mother’s cruise to the Greek Islands that ended in an unexpected Venice vacation. Friday:  The first I heard – It was an all day sail. The last day of our Greek Island cruise was a kind of let down. We were due to be in port Saturday morning in [...]

Posted on June 15, 2010 Filed Under Travel | Leave a Comment

Jamaica Vacation Part 3 – Wednesday

Well, it’s another post on our vacation in Jamaica, (the link takes you to previous posts). Today we went to Dunn’s River Falls. If you have never been there, you need to go. You can climb the waterfall from the beach all the way to the top. Because were staying in Negril, we had to [...]

Posted on June 2, 2010 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Jamaica Vacation, Travel | 1 Comment

Stuck in Venice, Italy

Recently, my mom went on a cruise of the Greek Islands with some other women in the family, and was stuck in Venice because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. I asked her to write some information on what to do when you are stuck in Venice. Here is a little about it. Does Venice have a [...]

Posted on May 29, 2010 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Travel | Leave a Comment