Tickets to Europe

Here it is finally! Today, my travel agent sent me our e-tickets and our insight tour voucher for our 13 day tour of Western Europe. My hubby and I have been looking forward to this trip for more than 3 months now and I can't believe that in less than a week, I will be boarding Emirates Airline for a dream vacation. I have been to Europe once before but never with my hubby, so I know that this time, it will definitely be more romantic (I've always wanted to have a baby conceived in Europe, hehehe!) According to our itinerary (which we have practically memorized) our meeting place will be at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel in London at 5:45 am. This means that we would have to be ready to leave by 5:30 in the morning (I think a wake up call will be the way to go, unless, of course, we are too excited so we will be up anyway!) We'll meet our tour director to cross the dover channel into Amsterdam where we will stay for the night. After a day and night in Amsterdam, our next stop would be Heidelberg Germany (the birthplace, I think of hubby's Heidelberg printing presses). It's another one night stay because the next day we will be going to Innsbruck, Austria (my favorite European country when I went before). Next stop after Innsbruck would be romantic Venice ( I hope the gondola we get has the person who will serenade us!) We get to stay in Venice for two days. The next destination is still in Italy, we will now be going to Glorious Rome where we will stay for another two days (we will spend Christmas eve here) before we forge on for a one night stay in Florence. For the next stop, we leave Italy and enter Switzerland (chocolates and watches here we come). Happy New Year to all! We stay there for two nights before we move on to the piece de resistance...Paris! Instead of going back with the tour group to London, we will be staying in Paris for one more night before our flight back to Manila. Whew...it's gonna be a great Christmas and a Happy New Year! Looking forward to the Christmas markets!

On airports, airplanes and immigration

I love to travel. Maybe not the packing and the unpacking but all the rest is just great. I'm one of the weird people who actually enjoy hanging out at the airport waiting for my flight to be called. I love to people watch at airports, I alway imagine that they are going to some exotic locale. I like to sit in airplanes and anticipate with glee airplane food (believe me, it takes me awhile to choose what to get, unless one of the choice is fish, then I automatically go for the other one!) Another thing that makes me really happy in airplanes is deciding what movie to watch. Even on the flights where there is only one movie being shown in the front screen, I try to stay up and watch. But on those flights were we get to choose which movies to watch and at what time, hooboy, I really really don't sleep at all (even if its a 12 hour flight). My hubby, who is the biggest sleeper in the world, would sometimes wake up and ask me if I'm crazy. My eyes are drooping and I think a little drool may be dripping from my mouth (lol) but still I refuse to just relax and fall asleep. I find sleep to be a waste of time. When I get to my place of destination, I get a little scared going through immigration thinking that I might have some contraband with me or that I answer the wrong thing and they send me back (my worst nightmare) hehehe. Once I'm through, HALLELUJAH!