by Matthew Allison | Jun 6, 2024 | Europe
April 2024: For a portion of our 3-week family trip with our 9-month-old daughter, we spent 4 nights and 5 days in Sardinia. We began in Cagliari, in the south of the island, arriving on a Ryanair flight from Seville, Spain. After picking up a rental car in Cagliari,...
by Matthew Allison | Jun 5, 2024 | Europe
April 2024: As part of a 3-week baby bonding family vacation with our 9-month-old daughter, we spent 6 days in Gibraltar and Andalucía, Spain. We chose this region for its rich blend of Spanish, Moorish, and Gypsy culture. To explore more conveniently, we hired a car...
by Matthew Allison | May 5, 2024 | Europe
April 2024: As part of a three-week baby bonding trip across Europe and Morocco, my family and I traveled to the Normandy region of France for three days from Paris. We rented a car in Paris, and after I spent the first night of our trip in the illegal Paris...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 28, 2023 | Europe
November 2023: A few years back, during a trip to Cyprus, I’d attempted to visit the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) but was turned away at the border due to missing some required COVID-19 documentation. That experience left me all the more intrigued to...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 19, 2023 | Europe
A Birthday Stop in the Azores January 2023 – Islands of Charm Before the Final African Frontier As part of a memorable birthday trip for my wife Paula, the three of us—Paula, her mom, and I—spent three wonderful days exploring the Azores Islands before continuing on...
by Matthew Allison | Oct 10, 2022 | Europe
October, 2022: As part of a larger European trip and in order to complete my last European countries, Andorra, and Monaco, my wife and mother-in-law flew to Barcelona, Spain. This was my second visit to Spain, my first being to Madrid in September 2006. The main...