Walking around a new(ish) city with a fun group of folks, eating really yummy food with an engaging, fun loving, knowledgeable guide is a fantastic way to kick off an evening. Twelve of us met up at the Harpa Concert Hall (more on that in a later post) at 5 pm and followed Dave, our...
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Our experiences with IcelandAir and then arriving at Keflavik Airport were truly a pleasure. And that’s not at all attributable to the fact that we have been travel deprived for 20 months. We were the only plane arriving at 6:00 am. Deplaning, fetching our luggage, going through passport check, vaccination check and customs took less...
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Our driver arrived exactly at 4:00 pm and despite it being rush hour on the LIE, Southern State and Belt Parkways we made good time, arriving at Terminal 7 at 5:35 for our 8:30 pm flight. We were through check in and security by 6:00. The lounges in Terminal 7 haven’t re-opened, but happily there...
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July 13, 2021 Waiting for our driver to fetch and deliver us to JFK. We have an 8:30 pm flight on IcelandAir. Yep, after 20 months, we have decided to resume our adventures and resurrect this travel blog. I posted about our summer 2020 and our Pandemic Project last week…but I’m still rusty…so bear with...
Continue readingWe couldn’t travel, so we spent the second half of 2020 changing our environment. During the early months in our two person bubble, we’d spent time watching some of the HGTV home renovation shows, plus we’d just finished the complete tear down and reno of our Sarasota place, so we were up for the project....
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We returned to Long Island on June 1, taking just two days to travel the 1248 miles from our condo in Sarasota to our home on Long Island. It was a very long two days… felt like twenty days, the cats were miserable and I felt like we were surrounded by Covid danger at every...
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March 24,2020 My amazing nephew Jesse, and his beautiful wife Gina, have been top of my mind since the Coronavirus surfaced in the news. They are expecting their first child in two weeks. With so much unpredictability surrounding capacity in hospitals; there’s uncertainty and a great level of anxiety surrounding this happy event. We visited...
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March 23, 2020. The Coronavirus continues to spread here in Florida and Governor Desantis refuses to be the leader that this state desperately needs. He is still holding off on a stay home order. Massachusetts, Ohio, Louisiana, and Delaware are the latest states to announce a stay home order, joining Jersey, California, New York, Illinois...
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March 22, 2020. News surrounding the Coronavirus becomes more alarming by the minute. Tim and I continue to remain isolated in our tiny condo. I’m walking twice a day and practicing Yoga every morning. Timmy and I are out here on the patio getting our daily dose of Vitamin D. Tim’s trying to identify my...
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March, 21,2020. I’m grateful. For these orange butterflies that hang out here on my patio. Grateful for the person who planted the vines that attract them. Here’s a pic of the flower on the vine. Apparently they’ve all become camera shy at the very moment I want to share them with you. Approximately 90% of...
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