... It has been more than a year that we have written an article about our travels. This doesn't mean that we haven't been travelling - may be too much and we have said many times that we need to go back to our lovely blog and create some more tips and stories from our travels. The 2008 was a long and a busy year and it included travels around the world again, though in a different style. Travelling on budget and for personal reasons give you a different perspective and it seems that you see more details and different details on your journeys, than you do whilst travelling on business:) That is logical right?! but you might not realise it. All the hotels, restaurants, 24/7 contact to your travel agent, priority cards for hotels, flights, check in.... Gosh! :) Sorry just remembering our last travel from Heathrow - Frankfurt which took us 12 hours... So, let's try to continue this travellers blog - definitely more frequently than in 2008, to share both types of travel the business one and the personal one. It reminds me of the adverts from the bank HSBC when they compare two things and exchange the meaning. :) Business travel comfort, personal travel budget or business travel budget, personal travel comfort? Well, it all really depends.
So the first and probably last article from 2008 will be from Czech Republic, where I'm spending Christmas with my family.
In Czech snow does belong to this fantastic holidays, though the weather forecast said that the snowflakes are delayed for 24 hours, which means we can forget snow again this year and especially on the 24th December, when we celebrate Christmas, decorating the Christmas tree, watch old and even older fairy-tales in the TV, eating carp (yes carp:) and potato salad for Christmas dinner and visiting friends and relatives to wish everybody a very merry Christmas. So no snow... which I was very disappointed about, but the rest is excellent as every year... the mold wine tastes great and the Christmas dinner which was prepared by my father (our own family tradition:) was delicious.
Reading the statistics from 1908 - 2008 what is the most favourite present each year, I must say that we have followed the most of the Czechs and didn't give each other many useless presents but spend 3 days in a really nice hotel in Prague and celebrated Christmas as family. It was really amazing!
So let's see how the Christmas holidays will look in the 2009 and what travel is planned for us in the next year.
We wish you all Merry Christmas and all the best for the new upcoming year 2009! Enjoy....
L&P is back under 1 single surname Farinha:)
