Not even the three cups of coca tea I had during breakfast at my hotel in Aguas Calientes could help me calm my nerves. I hadn’t slept much the night before; I could not help but think about my visit to Machu Picchu the following morning. The few times when I managed to fall asleep, nightmares involving my alarm not ...
We tend to think about airlines as a relatively new industry. However, scheduled air transport services for passengers and cargo have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Actually, the first commercial passenger airline dates back to 1913, when a scheduled service between Tampa and St Petersburg operated by the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line opened. This feat, that ...
I got inspired to write this post when I was first preparing my trip to New York, right after I sorted out the flights and started digging into ESTA. ESTA is, basically, a requirement that us Europeans have to travel to the US. Although it’s not as expensive or hard to obtain as, say, a visa, it can be quite ...
One of the most recurrent images I had when I thought about Miami was neon lights and art deco hotels along a palm-lined wide street. The city of Miami Beach (yes, it is a separate city) was the undisputed capital of glamour, luxury and glitz from the 20s well into the late 60s. As such, many of the top-notch hotels ...
Tortuguero National Park, located on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, is named after the variety of species of sea turtles that come here every year to spawn between the months of February and October. This nature reserve has carved a niche as the leading eco-tourism destination of the country. The Turtles Loggerhead, hawksbill and Pacific turtles flock to the ...