Faas-Track Travel

W ent out for dinner at Glowbal Grill Steaks & Satay  for dinner with my wife.  It is one of the many restaurants on the mainland strip in Yaletown in downtown Vancouver.  For seating they have the typical patio that every restaurant there has and of course a darker and more ‘atmospheric’ inside.  We decided […]

A fter a calm and restful train ride back to Lisbon from Sintra (45 mins or so) we made it back to the Rossio train station just off of Rossio square, go figure. we had decided that instead of walking all the way back to our hostel and then essentially coming all the way back […]

We took the bus upwards and onwards for a few more minutes and it dropped us off at the gate to the Magic Kingdom, well it felt that way, but instead was the Palace and Park of Pena. From the gate, where you show you’re tickets, you can walk around a rather unique and interesting […]

So the bus stopped at the entrance to the castle and we hopped off.  It doesn’t look like much of an entrance so don’t be deceived.  There is a small building that is the ticket booth.  I, Ryan, waited in one of the only lines on our trip, to get tickets.  If you are planning […]

Early this morning, approximately 4 am, I, Ryan, got up to use the bathroom down the hall. At least I tried to get of the room to go down the hall for a while, but I was thwarted by the old school Portuguese door lock for about 10 minutes. The key is one of those […]

The actual walking journey came next. We started heading down hill for a bit to wander through the streets and slowly made our way to the Sao Jorge Castelo (castle). The streets are lovely and all the sidewalks are made of cobbled stone (or marble, not sure, but either way they look great), but hurt […]

So wake up time this morning was 3 am at which point we discovered that a good chunk of our neighbourhood was still up and partying in the streets. It kind of sounded like a group of people singing and doing a parade around a few blocks as they would continually pass by the window. […]

Well we finally made it off those crazy airplane rides. Turns out that we also had some extra bus rides in our airport trips. At London Heathrow we had to go from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3. First you take the train back to the main terminal, then you walk a very long ways following […]

April 25,2014.  Adventure has started again.  In a manner most fitting to our upcoming travels we are sitting on our airplane watching “The Secret Adventures of Walter Mitty”.  Things haven’t gone quite according to plan for him in the movie so far, which seems to mirror our traveling style, but I like it that way.  […]

Well we spent the night on an airplane.  It was luxurious, in comparison to the public buses we had spent the last month or so on.  There was clean, individual seats with airconditioning, or a blanket if you were cold.  No dust coming through the windows blanketing your body.  A bathroom, multiple bathrooms, that you […]