Our Family Trip to Portugal

It has a while since our return home from our vacation to Portugal. I must admit, i believed that i would have started this post 3 weeks ago! But here are my excuses... Baby, house work, office work blah blah blah.

It's going to be crazy! - We have booked our first overseas trip

We have started the count down for July the 8th, 2016.

This is our departure date with destination Lisbon/Portugal.

20 things to pack when traveling with baby

As our summer holiday is coming up in the beginning on July and this will be our first trip traveling with a baby (8 month old) i thought i would prepare a list with our little-one's necessities.

Trying to keep within the golden rule of traveling light, here are the belongings that have made the list:

12 things to tackle 1 Week before locking up

Would it not be great if we could miraculously have everything ready and dealt with on the day we leave? Unfortunately things will not get done if you do not do them. So with one week ahead of us, here is a list to help us get from pending to done!

5 Tips for easy Traveling with baby

We spent the full of Friday traveling. It took us 2 planes but we are finally in Lisbon!

I was nervous that baby Mario was going to be miserable during the flyghts, but luckily even when he was up and about he stayed most of the time in good spirits.

This is us at Larnaca airport before our first diparture. 

Here are a few tips I learned along the way:

Tickets to Belgrade Serbia

I am so exited!

My husband and i  were not planning to go on summer vacation this year and then all of a sudden an unexpected burst of will to travel came upon us; and we decided to search for affordable tickets.

After looking for tickets to Greece which is not far from Cyprus where we live; we were a little disappointed. Our last minute unpredictability and lack of organizing left us only with the very expensive high season August tickets that we could not afford.

Seeing as we could not change our dates which are fixed by the companies the two of us work for, i was almost sure that we would not find something such last minute.

It was my friend Maria who suggested looking in to Serbia! She had booked her tickets to go there about a month ago; and will leave in the last week of July. She said that the tickets from Cyprus were affordable and also great for those who don't like spending lots of time in the airport because of direct flight availability.

It took me about a few minutes after my conversation with Maria to go on line and check out the prices and the destination. To be honest Serbia was not on my bucket list to visit but after some research i could not be more exited to go there.

Just check out these beautiful photos:

Booking a hotel to stay was also surprisingly affordable and we managed to do so online. We even requested an early check in, seeing as we are to arrive in the early hours of the morning and the Hotel staff were very helpful to accommodate us earlier at a 1/2 price rate.

So we are now counting down the days for our last minute summer vacation to Belgrade Serbia!

I thought i would share my exitment with you :)

xx

Natasha

ROMAN BOUTIQUE HOTEL (Paphos Cyprus)

On the first week of July, I decided to spend a few days at the sea side in the beautiful city of Papho.

I was looking for a nice Hotel at an affordable price and came across the Roman Boutique Hotel. This Hotel is quite unique and a lovely place to spend a summer holiday. All walls, roof tops, balconies and rooms are decorated with Roman theme drawings, the staff is very polite, friendly and helpful. Rooms are clean and towels & sheets get changed every day. The pool is not very big but it is surrounded by a lovely garden of flowers and trees. Breakfast and dinner was all you could eat with delicious traditional Greek food.  It was yummy!  On a Saturday night, dinner is accompanied with live music. The Hotel also has a Bar and a Beauty & health spa (simple, nothing to extravagant). I indulged in a back, neck and shoulder massage that cost me 25 euro for 30 minutes. I must admit that I felt so much more relaxed after. It was totally worth it!

During these few days I got acquainted with other guests at the hotel. A lovely family with a beautiful baby girl and a middle aged married couple with their many children… all in all the hotel was surrounded with families on holiday and tourists.

The reason I felt the need to share my experience of my stay at the Roman Boutique Hotel is because of local rumors that the Hotel is not a recommended place to stay due to inappropriate guests and their behavior.

I noticed no such behavior during my whole stay and find this rumor to be an injustice to the beautiful establishment.

I recomend the  Roman Boutique Hotel  to anyone looking for a unique theme establishment that provides a worth while stay.

Xxx

Tasha