Adventures by Miss Adventure

When we arrived at our hotel in Folegandros and met Theo the owner, he told us how lucky we were to get the room on such little notice. He told us it was only because of a last minute cancellation. A regular guest, an Italian photographer, got a last minute job so he had to Read more

Another early morning start. It seemed so cruel to do it to ourselves, but truth be told, one day and two nights in Athens and then move on, was the only plan we had. Now we had another – a 7:00am ferry to Folegandros. So with that we woke a 4:45am, packed up and made Read more

Long haul flights are hell. Any one who has ever suffered through a long haul in economy knows this. Through this hell, two things happened of note. The temperature when we landed in Dubai was 44 degrees. Even in the terminal, we felt the searing desert heat.  The second thing of note, happened on our Read more

Way back in 1987, I went to Europe for the first time. The guide book for the trip was a used, and slightly out-of-date, copy of Europe on $20 a day. I went with a friend to England, Spain, Paris, Venice. In case you hadn’t guessed by now, we had a limited budget, a couple Read more

Paris welcomed me back with open arms. It was cold and wet, and the bus I was on terminated a stop or two earlier than expected, but I enjoyed walking through its streets again. It was just on dusk and the rain made the streets all clean and shiny as the light from the street Read more