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72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes established 25-year old New York World journalist Nellie Bly as the record holder for fastest trip around the world starting from Hoboken, New Jersey and finishing in Jersey City. The date she completed her around the world trip was January 25, 1890. Her initial idea pitched to her…
One of the pleasant features of a 13:05 departure flight to Iceland from London Heathrow Terminal 2 is I had no hurry to reach the gate after arriving from Windsor by local public bus at 10:30 in the morning. No time crunch for reaching my flight gate meant I could focus on the process of…
Often, one of the big expenses of travel in Europe is the cost of ground transportation to get from place to place during a trip. Slovakia surprised me by how little it cost to move around the country by trains and buses. The price of city trams and buses was cheap in Bratislava and Kosice,…
Often, one of the big expenses of travel in Europe is the cost of ground transportation to get from place to place during a trip. Slovakia surprised me by how little it cost to move around the country by trains and buses. The price of city trams and buses was cheap in Bratislava and Kosice,…
One of the main reasons I chose to stay at Grand Hotel Stary Smokovec for my trip to the High Tatras is the fact this is a historic hotel of Europe. Also, seeing its location on Google maps across the street from the train station was an important consideration for ease of access. High Tatras…
I enjoy an opportunity to schedule an overnight transit in an international city when it means I have a good part of the day to walk around some place and the cost and time for transportation to city center is not prohibitive for a trip from the airport to the city. On trips since 2013…
For several years now, as California has had one its most severe droughts in history, I have joked on Loyalty Traveler that the state of California should pay me to drive around. There has been a rain storm on nearly every road trip I have made to Los Angeles in the past five years. The…
Normally I would not kiss and tell, but there was nothing normal about my hour in Lyon, France. One thing I certainly did not expect is to have a story to tell from a one hour layover at the Part Dieu train station in Lyon, France. I wanted to see a little bit of Lyon…
Originally I planned to take a train last week from Prague to Brno within the Czech Republic. Buying a train ticket online was more difficult than I anticipated. Google Maps recommended Student Agency bus as the cheapest transportation option between Prague Airport and Brno. Student Agency sounds like a transportation service for college students and…
Three trips to Europe to earn American Airlines AAdvantage Executive Platinum elite status are ticketed. Six airline tickets for intra-Europe travel are ticketed. This is a long piece detailing in part how I created a multi-faceted European itinerary for September 2015 while pulling in some 40,000 EQM and 70,000 redeemable miles in American Airlines AAdvantage,…
