Posting here has been sparse of late (yet again).
One reason is that my other two blogs take up most of my blogging time and energy. Another is that I've been doing a lot of traveling the past few months: A cruise involving China and Japan in March, and a bus trip in Italy in May. And I'll be taking a road trip to California in a few days. Then things will calm down for the summer.
Speaking of travel, I booked a Mediterranean cruise for October from Rome and wanted to add a day or two on the French Riviera. So I hopped on the Internet and checked out some one-way fares from Seattle to Nice. At least two leading airlines quoted around $3,000 (!!!) to get me there coach class. Then I tried Iceland Air, going as far as Paris. A lot cheaper, but then I'd have to get from Paris to Nice by plane or rail, another expense. Things were not looking good for my Riviera plan.
It suddenly dawned on me to see what might happen if I flew to Rome first and then round-trip to Nice from there. Bingo! I could do it for only a few hundred dollars on Alitalia. Problem solved.
Now I wonder if a travel agent would have come to the same solution? (I tend to use them if my proposed journey is something pretty new to me. After that, I tend to do my own bookings totally or directly with a cruise line of bus tour company.)
