Placentia Hotels - Reviews and Rates

It's time for another international adventure! We haven't used TravelPod in awhile, but the trip to China seemed like a good opportunity to start up again. In the two years since I last tried this from Egypt, there have been a number of great tech improvements. One of those is the ability to upload photos taken on my iPhone direct to flickr. Whe...

Hi, I am getting ready for my big trip to India and wanted to set up this new travel blog. You will be getting an e-mail every time I write a new entry so you can log onto the site and read it (if you want). I really LOVE having comments and feedback from you all while I am travelling so please type in your comments either on this blog or at sbe...

After about 28 hours from the wake-up call in Cairo to the front door in Hibiscusland, we made it home safe and stinky. Can you imagine what three weeks of cat hair on bamboo floors looks like? But, the cats were happy to see us and keep sitting on us every chance they get, as if to say "no more running off to Africa for three weeks!". No worrie...

We're only about 4 days away now, and wrapped up in prepping the house, packing bags, and learning basic Arabic. Caiti's doing great with the three abovementioned tasks; I'm about two months behind. We've gotten our vaccinations (polio, hep-a, measles/mumps/rubella, and typhoid), our passports have been stamped with Egyptian visas, and our final...

Woke up in Placentia this morning to the return of the dreaded Santa Ana winds. It's currently 95 degrees and I felt a bit silly at REI buying new cold weather gloves and a travel umbrella. Depending on which weather forecast for Edinburgh you believe it's either going to be 42 degrees and clear every day (wunderground.com) or it's going to snow...