Tag: trip
A change in employer opened up the opportunity to do something that hadn’t happened since early in my career — travel around my birthday! The only challenge was that I didn’t have a lot of vacation days, so this turned into a long weekend trip. So, who doesn’t want to spend half their vacation traveling to go to Amsterdam?
Continue reading “2022.04 Amsterdam weekend, Keukenhof and Rijksmuseum Part 1”
Our time in Germany was already over and it was time to travel home. Starting our travel day directly connected to Frankfurt airport’s Terminal 1, it was a stress free day of travel.
Continue reading “2021.12 Germany and Christmas Markets (Part 10)”
We had a day trip to Cologne. We visited several Christmas Markets, with the bonus of visiting the Chocolate Museum!
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Throughout Germany starting in mid-November Christmas markets appear. Predominantly, they are located in city squares, however in the country side they’ll put on massive markets at a farm or even a field. Majority of the stalls are focused on food and beverages, however, some of the best stalls to visits are the crafts for sale. Here’s the first few we visited on our trip.
Continue reading “2021.12 Germany and Christmas Markets (part 3)”
Travel had not yet returned because restrictions were still in place. In response to that Air Canada, or Aeroplan, offered up ways to achieve frequent flyer status for 2023. After some calculations, I realized I could achieve my goal by adding a round trip to Vancouver. However, without vacation available, it was going to be a day trip!