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Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco

Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco

Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco WJ Tested: Insight Vacations Review – Treasures of Spain, Portugal & Morocco 16-Night Motorcoach Trip in 2011 Europe is our favorite continent for experiencing an immensely diversified super-serving of culture within a geographic area that allows for easy travel connections. At every turn history sparks […]

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey

Discovering Ephesus in Turkey By Vikki Gibson We were picked up at 4:15 a.m. by Mr. Emit of Euphrates Tours for our trip to the airport. An early morning flight on Pegasus Air from Kayseri to Izmir was the start of the next phase of our exploration of Turkey’s great treasures. We were relocating to […]

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia

Exploring Historic Central Anatolia By Vikki Gibson Our Euprates Tour van and guide, Ramzan, were at our beck and call on the second day of our tour. Ramzan had an itinerary that lay the history and terrain of central Anatolia before us. We continued exploring ancient caves and their remarkable and unbelievable paintings; dwellings engineered from […]

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia in Turkey By Vikki Gibson Ring! Ring! It’s our 3:45 a.m. wake-up call. When I open my eyes I don’t know that they are open. It’s pitch-black! Panic! Why can’t I see? Then I remember, I’m in a cave; a beautiful Turkish cave. Time to get up. The balloon company will pick us up at […]

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley

Explore Turkey: Goreme Valley  By Vikki Gibson So, after forty-three years, I have  crossed “see underground cave city” off of my proverbial “bucket list”. I finally made it back to Turkey! It was 1969 and I was hitch-hiking around Europe carrying a back-breaking, hip-hugging, German army surplus backpack and eating from the right side of the menu. […]

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in Finland’s Archipelago

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in Finland’s Archipelago

WAVEJourney’s Adventure in  Finland’s Archipelago By Jill Hoelting, Photos by Vivienne Chapleo I’m a water baby. I celebrate my birthday in the summer month of July and it is my personal mandate to be on/in the water to mark “my day” each year. I also revel in remoteness, the out-of-the-way charm of a not-so-well-known destination. […]

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway

WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway By Jill Hoelting, Photos by Vivienne Chapleo Even though Thomas the Tank Engine wasn’t a popular storybook tale in my youth, my love of trains was big. My grandfather was an engineer on the iron horses clickety-clacking their way through Illinois in the mid-1900s, and […]

WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Dijon to Paris

WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Dijon to Paris

WJ Tested: Globus La France Motorcoach Tour – Dijon to Paris Day 14 This morning we didn’t need to rush, so our wake-up call wasn’t until 8:15 a.m., with breakfast scheduled for 8:45 a.m. and followed by a 9:45 a.m. departure. The plan was that our group would take the TGV (high-speed train) from Dijon […]

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grenoble to Dijon

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grenoble to Dijon

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grenoble to Dijon Day 13 – Lyon Another day with a fairly large distance to cover meant our wake-up call rang out at 6:15 a.m., followed by breakfast in the hotel cafe at 7 a.m. Then at 8 a.m. we departed the Mercure hotel in Grenoble for France’s […]

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grasse to Grenoble

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grasse to Grenoble

WJ Tested: Globus La France Tour – Grasse to Grenoble Day 12 – Grasse The two nights we spent at the Fairmont Monte Carlo during our Globus La France tour were exactly what we needed in order to recharge our batteries and get revved up for the remaining days of the 14-day trip. It was […]

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