11:11 Travel Tips Blog

People ask this question a lot: Are passport Covers really necessary?Is anything really necessary? You are the master of your domain. You decide what's necessary. But I will tell you that Passport Holders saved my life... okay not exactly but they are a really great thing to have.  Plus now I can't imagine not having one.  At first I was skeptical. When I first started writing for these guys i was just a regular travel writer. Bitten by the travel bug I would travel and write about it. So I get here and they offer me a bunch of free...

Oh. My. God.   When we got to Recco, Italy, I didn't know it was where Foccacia was invented.  Plus, the foccacia bread in Recco isn't what you think.  It's way, the way better.  We went down to Recco and got an airbnb place for four days after a cruise through France with family and friends.  My friend Jah is a tourist guide reader and when she travels she knows everything about a place.  So needless to say, when I travel with him, I just let him tell me what's up and the rest is history.  In this case, we're...

Be careful renting cars in Europe. We recently rented a car from Hertz in France. We got the car at the end of our cruise trip down the somme river. We ended up in Nice, decided to extend a few days so we got a car and drove to Recco, Italy. It was a pleasant trip- down the riviera. Absolutely beautiful and rather uneventful. We had rented an airbnb place down in Recco and the best part about that was there were virtually no tourists there. In fact i think there were actually none. The home we were in was...

Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärvi Sweden The first Ice Hotel that I know of is in near the arctic circle in the small village of Jukkasjärvi Sweden.  In the winter they construct rooms from Ice sculptures and you get to stay in a hotel room basically made entirely of ice.  It looks very exciting and evidently there's tons to do up there from snowmobiling to checking out the northern lights.   The rooms are made entirely of ice, as I mentioned before, which is exactly as it sounds... cold.  the temperature hovers around 17 to 25 degrees fahrenheit, well below freezing!  Which is good, considering...

Here are some tips if you're traveling to Cuba.  10 Things you can do in and around Havana.  First a little Background:  Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and due to its strategic location it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the continent becoming a stopping point for the treasure laden Spanish Galleons on the crossing between the New World and the Old World. King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. (from Wikipedia_)  The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the...