Virgin Atlantic Flight Offer

The dates are pretty restrictive (now through March or Oct - Dec) , but I just saw this offer from Virgin Atlantic.

A quick check had a flight from DC to London for about $540 round trip (including taxes and fees). Not bad, especially from Virgin, which is a fantastic airline in my opinion.

You have to book by Feb 6th it looks like, so check it out and see if it fits into your travel plans.

Paris

For our joint birthday weekend (Laura on the 26th, me on the 30th), we decided that a trip to Paris would be the perfect way to celebrate.

The main theme from our weekend seems to be sitting in cafe's. We did quite a bit of that. Mostly to look at the sights, but also to warm ourselves up from walking around the city. Plus, who doesn't like paying 5 euros for a cup of tea?

We took loads of pictures around the city.

I'm sure Laura will have some more exciting insights soon, I just wanted to share the pics with you all.

Calendar

As Laura mentioned, we've added the calendar to the menu on the right... but it is difficult to actually see what each of those little green blobs mean.

So now, you can reference back to this post and get a full view of the calendar if you need more details, but otherwise just use the one on the right to get an idea for when people are visiting and when we're off on a European adventure. In other words, just shoot for a non-green-blob date when planning your visit.

Calendar Application

So, as you loyal blog-readers can see, bobby has tried to upload a calendar to the blog (to the right) to keep track of when we're traveling, when people are coming out to visit, when we're traveling with other people, etc.  It's not really working yet, but stay tuned for some kind of probably ghetto computer-engineer solution.  

We wanted to put this calendar up so that we can help you all plan your trips out to visit!  Everyone keeps asking what our plans are for this month or that month, and it was getting a little hard to keep track.  So, start thinking about when you want to come out, what you want to see, and reserve your own special little place on the calendar!  

Happy Holidays from Team Harwig

When are the Harwigs going to blog about their holidays already? Well, since I hate blogging, i've been holding out for Bobby to do it, but now that he's back to work I guess the task falls to me.

We had discussed many possibilities for our Christmas break- originally planning on Italy, and then playing with the idea of Paris, next we considered staying in the UK, but, because of my plethora of free time and obsession with lastminute.com, we ended up booking a very last-minute and ridiculously cheap trip to Spain instead.

We flew into Alicante and took a 45 minute bus ride to our final destination, Benidorm which is on the south-eastern coast of Spain. I have to say, this is the least prepared for a vacation i've ever been. We knew nothing about Benidorm, had no idea what to expect, and our spanish is limited to what we've learned from TacoBell commercials, that said, we had a great time! While it wasn't warm enough to go swimming in the Med (it was about 65 degrees out), we did get to hang out on the beach in our bathing suits. Other than that, we wandered around the town a lot, ate a lot, hung out in our posh 4 star hotel, and bobby managed to get the flu, all in 6 days! Here are some pictures that will do a better job describing our vacation than I can.

Here's a picture of the city of Benidorm and the Med. The water was beautiful!

Here's me in a restaurant where we ordered a plate of Paella, not knowing exactly what it was. Can you see the fear in my eyes at the site of all of that very much alive-looking seafood? Good thing bobby was there to teach me how to de-shell crayfish, and to eat all the crayfish after I discovered I hate it.

Here's another picture of the city of Benidorm.

Here's bobby with some palm trees. I think this was the day he had a ridiculously high fever. What a sport.

Bobby's first time in the Mediterranean!! He looks so happy!

Me and Bobby on the beach.

The view from our hotel room.

Us hanging out by the pool on Christmas day.

Our hotel, the tallest building in Spain.

Our table at the Christmas banquet where we had to carry on awkward conversations with 8 elderly British couples. You know the ones where you tell them you're American and they respond with "Oh really? I went to Mexico once."

Me in front of the big Santa.

Us wearing our Christmas Crowns which come out of the Christmas Crackers, a very British holiday tradition.