Tag: United Arab Emirates

My Birthday Flight to Nowhere: Part 2 – Emirates First Class

ByTravelling Minion March 29, 2022 4 Comments
Breakfast in the Lounge After a long journey to get to Dubai and resting a few hours in the quiet room. It was time to head to the lounge "restaurant" for some breakfast before my Emirates First Class flight. The eating area operates like a full service restaurant. It comes complete with wait staff and an a la carte menu to order off of.  I ordered a traditional breakfast, some fruit and an...

My Birthday Flight to Nowhere: Part 1 – Flying to Dubai

ByTravelling Minion March 13, 2022 4 Comments
Emirates First Class In December of 2021, I did a bit of flying to nowhere... Let me explain... One of my travel goals for 2021 was to fly in Emirates First Class. I made a booking to do this late in December 2021. What makes it even sweeter is that it's a little bit of a birthday gift to myself  since it occurs a day after my birthday! In order to maximize the flights, I got "creative" with...

Travelling Minions: Looking back at 2021

ByTravelling Minion December 31, 2021 1 Comment
Looking back at 2021, the beginning of the year held a lot of hope that by this time life would return to normal. Hope that travel would resume and we could start salvaging lost travel plans. For a good three quarters of the year the trend looked promising. However, over the past month a new Covid Variant (Omicron) is discovered and countries are once again taking measures to contain the spread....

Continental Minion! Checking all the Continents off the bucket list

ByMinion-Chris April 30, 2017 1 Comment
Visiting all Seven Continents With the completion of my recent trip to Australia, not only did I check Australia off the "visit list", but also hitting all seven continents from my bucket list as well. For as long as I can remember, stepping foot on all seven continents had always been at the top of my bucket list. And for the past several years, there was a focused effort to make that dream a...

Wrapping up our Africa trip and GALLERIES!!

ByMinion-Chris July 23, 2016 0 Comments
This will be my last post about our travels in Africa. Firstly off, I want to thank you for following me on this journey through Africa.  While it was often a "chore" to write about what we did each day, I have truly enjoyed documenting my travels in this way and am hoping to do more of this in the future! I have also updated every post with a gallery of photos so for those into pictures,...

Reflecting on Africa – Muscles!

ByMinion-Chris July 18, 2016 0 Comments
Last week, Gimpy gave us her thoughts on our African Adventure. This week Muscles gives us his reflections on this trip! 1. What were your top 3 highlights of the trip? Highlight #1: The pyramids!  Seeing them in person, posing in front of them, touching them, climbing them, entering them, and marvelling at the magnitude of how they were all constructed by hand. Highlight #2: Seeing the beauty...