Chillaxed, delightful, and perfect for kids: Why we fell in love with this Cypriot city
Back in December 2024, I, Fiona, purchased Wizz tickets for us all to fly to Budapest and fly home via Vienna a week later in May 2025. I celebrated a big birthday this year and the family vacation was my gift. We were going to take the train and explore both cities. For five months,…
Knights, fortresses, and secret tunnels: Our fascinating and enjoyable day in Akko
Did you know that there were knights in Israel? And that you can visit their well-preserved, gorgeous and expansive fortress? All of this and more is in Akko and easily accessible by public transportation. This past chol hamoed Pesach (2025), we took a day trip to visit Israel’s northern region and explore this gorgeous city…
Eyeing those cheap low-cost flights? Read this before you book.
We are so excited now that Europe’s low-cost carriers are returning to Israel! As of the writing of this post (February 2025), Wizzair currently operates out of Tel Aviv, while Ryanair and Easyjet are expected to return later this spring. Provided they actually stick around this time, this is huge news! Why? Because low-cost flights…
Our budget-conscious step-by-step guide to planning your next vacation
With foreign airlines gradually returning to Israel and some big birthdays coming up, we are in trip-planning mode again. While we plan our next family vacation, we wanted to take you along for the ride and show you exactly how we do it. Here’s looking at you, friends-who-tell-us-they-wish-they-could-travel-but-don’t-know where-to-start. 😉 Before you go, don’t forget…
Roaming around Rome with my dad
After holding down the fort during Fiona and our daughter’s epic mother-daughter European adventure, I, Finn, have been dreaming of one of my own. While our son isn’t old enough to appreciate such a trip yet, my dad loves to travel. Neither of us had ever been to Rome before and it was on both…
13 of our favorite free or almost free things to do in Jerusalem
Are you planning a trip to Jerusalem? Or do you live there and are looking for affordable activities in the city? Luckily, Israel’s capital has plenty of free and almost free things to do and it’s a great city to get to and around by public transportation. While we’ve never done a proper multi-night family…
Looking to get away for a few days? We had a spectacular time in Haifa.
Anyone who knows us knows that we love to travel. Not only that, but we derive immense joy from planning affordable trips. Since Finn’s mom passed last year, we have been making an effort to spend more time with his dad and the rest of their family. Sabba likes to travel too, but he doesn’t…
Tel Aviv City Break: How we celebrated our anniversary in style
Remember our daytrip to Tel Aviv for our anniversary last year? That was lots of fun. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we went back again this year – and stayed the night! The photo above shows the view from our hotel window. Hello, beach! This was our first night away from our…
Our short, sweet & unforgettable mother-daughter European adventure
Ever since I organized and went on a(n inexpensive) ladies’ European getaway in 2021, my daughter has been begging for a mother-daughter #ladyvacay of our own. As flight prices tend to go wayyyy down in the winter, I had decided last year that I’d snag cheap tickets to a nearby European country for some point…
Our 4K “Just say yes” family Chanukah adventure
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we love to travel and that we had planned a trip to Bulgaria for October 2023. You also know that God had other plans and that trip never happened. Fortunately, we were able to recoup just about all of the 4,000 shekels we had laid out…
How I organized a 5-day ladies’ trip abroad for 1,200 ILS per person
Hi all! Fiona here. If you haven’t noticed by now, I am one of those people who is constantly planning and fantasizing about her next vacation. While I love my family dearly, traveling with kids has its limitations. Sometimes you need to get away and recharge, preferably with old friends who you don’t see very…
10 costly mistakes that people make when vacationing abroad (and how to avoid them)
It’s summer time! Time to plan last minute vacations – or if you’re like us – you might be planning a vacation for off-season later this year, when prices will be much lower and attractions will be less packed. If you haven’t yet read our post on how to save thousands on your next vacation,…
7 ways to save thousands on your next vacation
As you probably know by now, we live for travel. We love exploring, experiencing new things and learning about new places. We are always reminiscing about past vacations and busy planning and looking forward to our next one. Aside from 2020, we have made sure to have a family vacation each year, not including periodic…
Our spectacular anniversary adventure for less than the cost of dinner out
Coupled folks, what do you do to celebrate your anniversary? Dinner out? Gifts? If you go out, how long is your date? And how much does the whole thing cost? Lucky for us, we discovered early on that we both suck at buying each other gifts. Spending money to buy someone something that they didn’t…
And… we’re back!
Hi friends! Did you miss us? After two weeks away from our blog and out of the country, we’re back! So where did we go and what did we do? And most importantly, how much did it cost us? Before we begin, we want to point out that while this trip did cost a substantial…
Our 2000 shekel chol hamoed family vacation in Israel
As a few of us have birthdays in the fall and it’s off-season, that is generally the time of year we choose for family vacations. By September, we had built up a slush fund since we decided months ago that we wanted to vacation this fall, but we still hadn’t booked anything yet in the…
Chasing the Fionist Dream 