Top Travel Bloggers' Favorite Places from 2015 After we wrote our annual year in review place and enjoyed reliving some of our favorite trips we wondered what some of our blogger friends had enjoyed the most in 2015. So, using our in-depth investigative techniques we sent them emails and asked them! Without further ado (we were too lazy to edit) here are their interesting … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
2015: Where we traveled, what we liked and what we didn’t
2015 Travel Looking back on where we traveled in 2015 we (meaning at least one of us) went to 12 countries; 4 for the first time. Now we can see why our friends think we travel all the time. We, oh so cleverly, tend not to travel to places we don't expect to enjoy so when we do our year-end review sometimes it can be hard to come up with a lot of things we … [Read more...]
6 things to do in Buenos Aires
Things to do in Buenos Aires There are so many things to do in Buenos Aires that Blonde and Alternate Brunette spent our first afternoon there frantically taking a cab to a restaurant that closed in our faces, eating somewhere mediocre where the electricity went out, going to a shoe store where Blonde started to buy ill-fitting boots and discovered her wallet was missing, went … [Read more...]
What to expect if you go trekking at Glacier Perito Moreno in Patagonia
How do you arrange to go trekking at Glacier Perito Moreno? There are two very basic things you need to do if you want to go trekking at Perito Moreno. They are; get yourself to El Calafate, Chile and do it between October and April. That's springtime in Patagonia and the temperatures typically range from the low 40s Fahrenheit up to the mid 60s. As Blonde and Alternate … [Read more...]
Odd word combo: Luxury, Yurt, Patagonia, Camp
Is a luxury yurt in Patagonia an oxymoron? Blonde has never been adept at math but when SwoopPatagonia suggested the following equation; Patagonia+Camp+Yurt=Luxury she knew enough to think it looked highly suspicious. But she trusted Swoop Patagonia, figured that, worst case, she could at least write about how she hated the experience and said "Sounds great". You hardly … [Read more...]
5 ways to experience luxury travel without breaking the bank
We are unrepentant lovers of luxury travel, especially when someone else pays for it. But we have occasionally opened up our own wallets for some. It can be a smallish splurge in the grand scheme of the vacation's total cost but have an outsize value in terms of making us feel as pampered as we somehow got the (mistaken) idea we deserve. Here are a few splurges to consider … [Read more...]
Swoop Patagonia finds us the perfect Patagonian cruise
If you had been scheduled to go on a cruise to Antarctica which was cancelled at the last minute, due to the ship hitting an iceberg, what would you choose as a replacement activity? A. another cruise in similar waters B. anything except another cruise in similar waters. C. calling a personal injury attorney (U.S. responders only) Precisely! As we suspected you … [Read more...]
Street Art in Buenos Aires
Street art in Buenos Aires is a visual way of conveying publicly what could not always be safely spoken publicly. On a tour of the northern part of the city with Graffitimundo Blonde was shocked (and vaguely disappointed) to actually learn some history. The hope had been for some pictures that would lend themselves to funny, snarky captions. But for … [Read more...]
Did I say Antarctica? I meant Patagonia!
A not all that funny thing happened on the way to Antarctica The night before Blonde and Alternative Brunette were scheduled to meet with Quark representatives in our Buenos Aires hotel lobby to have our luggage be weighed (second only in humiliation to being weighed ourselves) we got an email that the cruise to Antarctica had been cancelled. The ship had hit an iceberg at … [Read more...]
Cartagena Getaway (sure-fire success kit)
Why do a Cartagena Getaway? A Cartagena Getaway is less than 5 hours nonstop from the east coast of the United States and airfare is under $500. When you get there you can enjoy delectable meals, walk most places you want to go, buy beautiful, handmade mementos, tour UNESCO sites and easily visit a Caribbean beach. Isn't Colombia dangerous? If you still think Colombia is … [Read more...]