Weekend Warrior Mama

Tag: solo travel

  • Iceland VI

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    Sunday, November 29, 2015 … another alarm set for 12 noon. My friend that I had gotten together with on Saturday invited me to brunch with his family. Along with Broadway shows, NYC brunches top my favorite things to do on a NYC weekend. So, there was no way I was missing out on seeing what…

  • Iceland V

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    Saturday, November 28, 2015 My alarm was set for noon as a friend was coming by to get me to walk with me to get hot dogs and go to the flea market. Let’s just say the food equivalent to Ron Burgundy in Iceland would be the hot dogs. The place to go is Bæjarins Beztu…

  • Iceland Part IV

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    Friday, November 27, 2015 It snowed in earnest as I slept Thursday night and Friday morning. I woke up to a Winter Wonderland. It was beautiful. It wasn’t all brown and muddy as it gets in NYC or even in the suburbs of Connecticut. It appeared they didn’t even plow the streets around me, people…

  • Iceland Part II

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    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 I awoke at 12:50 PM.  I missed half of daylight. I obviously needed the sleep but the days get significantly shorter very quickly through November and December. On Tuesday when I arrived sunrise was at 10:24  and sunset at 16:04. On Wednesday it was 10:27 and 16:01, already 6 minutes less…

  • Iceland Part I

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    I love Iceland. It is one of the most beautiful countries.  And every day Conde Naste and Travel and Leisure send me articles about beautiful places in the world and Iceland seems to always make the list. I’ve recently come home from an 8 night journey in Iceland and I must say, I am going back…

  • Stockholm History Museum

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    Stockholm’s history museum is free and open to the public. I specifically went to check out their section on Viking history. For not having a separate Viking museum at my time of visit (expected to open 04/29/2017) their Viking collection was pretty extensive. I enjoyed getting lost in there for a couple of hours looking…

  • Two Roads Brewery – Stratford, CT, USA

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    I am lucky enough to have my home based quite close to many craft breweries. As I get more info the craft beer scene it is nice to take a tour of some of these breweries. What’s great about Two Roads for people from from say NYC is that they can hop a train right from…

  • A Live UFC event: Part I: The Backstory

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    NOTE: Part I is not a travel blog post but a set up for part 2’s blog post which will be a travel one. It gives you a bit of backstory and history to me and why I traveled to UFC 199. I have been a fan of the sport of mixed martial arts for…

  • A Day in Amsterdam

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    I took a day trip to Amsterdam with dreams of seeing the Van Gogh museum, the Resistance Museum, and The Anne Frank House so with much to do I figured the 24 hour Amsterdam city card would be helpful. I was dreadfully wrong. You can buy tickets for The Van Gogh museum online but then…

  • Salem, MA

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    In Honor of Halloween With Halloween coming up at the end of the week, I thought we could talk a bit about Salem. Salem, MA is a New England fall favorite destination.  It is close by the water so it can be really chilly, but what better place to be around Halloween then the location…