Last week, the Michael W Travels family flew home from Barcelona to NYC with a stop in London.
During our journey, we encountered a flight delay which caused some issues. (Possibly more on that another time…)
When looking over our boarding passes, four letters stood out for my flight from London (LHR) to New York (JFK), SSSS. Continue reading I Got The Dreaded SSSS On My Boarding Pass & It Wasn’t So Bad
Visit Guernsey is giving away a trip for two to visit London and Guernsey.
The prize includes airfare and five nights of hotel stays between the two destinations.
The contest is being ran to due to release of the book, “The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society” as a film. Continue reading Win A 5- Night Trip for 2 to London and Guernsey
A rare lizard, around one foot long was found wandering the baggage terminal recently at London’s Heathrow Airport.
The discovery was made by “staff in Terminal 4’s baggage sorting area“, according to Fox News. Continue reading Rare Giant Lizard Found Wandering Around London’s Heathrow Airport
The Michael W Travels family recently got back from an awesome little trip to Ireland.
While Dublin is usually a quick flight from NYC, we flew on connecting flights each way. A small inconvenience is worth it to save on the cost of a flight, if you ask me…
During our travels we got to visit a Priority Pass lounge in three airports. Two of the lounges were solid offering food, snacks, drinks and a place to relax.
The other Priority Pass lounge was quite different and possibly the most interesting one that I’ve ever visited. Continue reading The Most Interesting Priority Pass Lounge I’ve Visited
When Andrew Zimmern’s Travel Channel show Bizarre Foods came out, it brought all of the strange foods that people eat around the world into our living rooms. While these foods do seem strange for Westerners, they most likely aren’t seen that way in the places that they are consumed.
The first time that I can recall seeing bugs for sale as a food had to be during our trip to Thailand. I also remember seeing trays of bugs at a supermarket in Vietnam years back and I had to take a photo. My guess is that the locals and shopkeepers probably found it just as odd that I was taking the photos! Continue reading Insects, That’s What For Dinner at London Restaurant
Twitter has been an amazing tool for interacting with companies, (virtually) meeting new people, winning various prizes and for doing something as simple as following news stories.
Could you imagine using Twitter to tweet yourself to freedom? Well that just what an American tourist in London did. Continue reading Man Tweets Way to Freedom
Imagine having to enter a lottery for the chance to pay to stay in a really cool room. Usually you just go online and book the place you’d like to stay. If it is a very popular place or area, you might need to book many months in advance to secure the date you want.
Well, at one temporary London stand alone hotel room, if you want to spend the night you’ll have to enter the lottery and hope to get selected.
