Trafalgar Square in London to me, feels like a gateway. In that from this spot, you can go to so many different places. Down to Westminster, off via the Mall to Buckingham Palace for example. The square's name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory in the Napoleonic Wars with France and Spain that took place on 21 October 1805…
This wanderlust post is about my dream luxury hotels in London. As I have got older, my tastes have been changing with hotels. I have stayed in some amazing beautiful places and then some budget hotels that I will only do if I have too. And I am hoping to start staying in more luxury hotels in the future for…
My March, another life update, while still off work, again having to put off travel plans and days out. And this is written with me using a pen to type this. I have Netflix and Amazon on again - this time I watched; My husband has been on at me to watch Stranger Things. Which he later admitted that he didn't…
LOTTERY WIN – THE NEPTUNE SUITE
If I ever won the lottery, this would be the first hotel I would book The Neptune Suite at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When in your life can you say that your hotel room had a floor to ceiling window looking directly into a Lagoon with 65,000 marine animals ? This is one of the many…
LOOK BACK: USA, MIAMI SEAQUARIUM
Before we joined our Royal Caribbean cruise, we had some free time in Miami. We stopped in the Miami Seaquarium to see what they had to offer. It was on the way to the cruise port. We were driving up from our base in the Florida Keyes. The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key…
LOOK BACK: USA, FLORIDA KEYES, THEATER OF THE SEA
Theater of the Sea is one of the oldest marine mammal facilities in the world. The McKenney family still owns and operates the park today. They opened in 1946. We had driven passed this on our way to our hotel in the Florida Keyes. Theater of the Sea is a marine mammal park located in the Village of Islamorada, Florida, United States.…