Blogs from Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

Our time in Sicily had come to an end…..and frankly, we were ready. Our last stop in Palermo rekindled our warmth for the province, but still, we found ourselves eager to move on. With many years of international travel, we had faced many hurdles, but between being eager to depart Sicily and the challenges we faced, it made for some frustration. When you travel, things will occasionally go awry, but this travel day had special challenges…. Travel Challenges It would prove to be a test of our travel mettle and for us, that is saying something. We had arranged with the hotel for a taxi to pick us up in Palermo at 430am and take us to the airport for our flight to Sardinia. The taxi didn’t show up so we made a call to another ... read more

We’re still trying to work out what our accommodation, the Starry Sky Charming House, really is. Mr Google says it’s a four star hotel, but it clearly isn’t because it doesn’t have any hotel facilities. It does have hotel size rooms, but they’re jammed into an apartment block, and are certainly way too small to be called apartments. The establishment itself refers to itself as a guest house, but it’s not a house, and the only guest houses I’ve ever stayed in have at least had a lounge, a bar, a reception area and a restaurant, and it certainly doesn’t have anything even vaguely resembling any of those. We decide to settle for “boarding house”; for which we’re paying four star hotel prices. I’ve decided that I need to try to stop thinking about our accommodation, ... read more

Today we have a long day of travelling to Alghero in Sardinia. Our train looks like it goes straight from Tours to the Paris airport, so we won‘t have to endure any of the Paris stations. This is a good thing. We’d heard that Gare du Nord is generally regarded as one of the most dangerous places in Paris. When we went through it last week it seemed to be well populated with some fairly desperate looking types of every race, colour and creed. One man wanted well over a hundred dollars to take us about five kilometres in a taxi, and I’m pretty sure someone tried to pick my pocket as we hauled our luggage around in the searing heat. Montparnasse station wasn’t much better. We sat down to have a drink and a snack ... read more

Rano to moc ruzovo nevyzeralo, stale dazd a silny vietor. Vylet do Porto Conterusime, nahradny plan je nakupovanie a tulanie sa po algheru (stare mesto pozname uz naspamat). Dazd trochu ustal tak podme ho na talianske ranajky do baru. Po par metroch sa opat pusta dazd, nasi nasadzuju biele prsiplaste. Vypadaju jak dve spermie. Miname par kaviarniciek/barov plnych ranajkujucich talianov. Zacina mensi nakupny osial, zastavujeme sa v cinskom obchode. Obkukanie kabeliek, nakup magnetiek. Dalsi cinsky obchod a zas to iste. Na ulici nas oslovuju cernosi nech si kupime umbrelu (daznik). Nie su doterny, raz sa spytaju a idu dalej. Zakotvujeme na piazza sulis v kaviarnicke kde to bolo vcere preplnene talianmi. Teraz uz sme tu len my a este jeden par. Objednavame capucina a k tomu croasant, buchticku a sisku. Miriam je konecne spokojna ma prave ... read more

Rano prebehlo rychle balenie do mojho vodneho mini vaku z laosu. Obsah rifle, ponozky,trenky, tricko, kniha. Mamina so sestrou sa prekvapivo zbalili len do jedneho kufra, ktory splna limity ryanairu, takze sa moze zobrat hore na palubu. Nasadame do auta, feri velky vodic, hadam nas neodveze miesto do ba na letisko sliac. Cesta prebehla bez problemov. Zastavujeme pred priletovou halou, mami si dava cigaretku, vyprevadzame feriho a mozme ist smer odbavovacia hala. Pred priletovou halou sa da gratis stat 15.min, ostatne parkoviska dovoluju len 5.min. Pred prichodom na parkovisko sa stlaci gombik, vylezie papierik s ciarovym kodom, otvori sa zavora, zaparkuje sa, vylozia sa cestujuci. Pri odchode sa zasunie papierik, zdvihne sa zavora a fiju smer mesto. Na letisku sme sa hned prepravili do duty free zony (ceny vysoke). Bratislavske letisko je zname svojim excelentnym securit ... read more