Travel Tips

RetiredAndTravelling Travel Blog

We are RetiredAndTravelling around the world. When we semi-retired early, it gave us the opportunity to travel about 6 months of the year in multiple trips. Our trips included both cruising travel and land-based travel spots. Some are short long weekend breaks. But we also cover longer trips that cover multiple cities and countries for 30 to 60 days.

When we travel we love to explore towns and nature spots. Adventure travel gets our blood moving. And we have been known to travel for food, wine tasting and to splurge on Afternoon Tea.

Our travel blog posts are in-depth and filled with pictures. Travel summaries provide an overview of trips with links to the detailed posts. We always try to offer travel tips to help you plan and enjoy the experiences when you travel.

We hope the RetiredAndTravelling travel blog will help to fuel your travel wanderlust!

Travel Tips

Travel blog posts with travel tips that helped you plan and enjoy the experiences when you travelled.

1) Customer Service tips provided insights and experiences on customer service excellence.

2) Points and loyalty tips helped with how to build points and get the best out of loyalty programs. This includes airlines, hotels and cruising.

3) General travel tips included a broad range of helpful tips on topics like packing and planning.

4) Cruising tips covered things that are helpful when planning or taking a cruise.

5) Travel technology tips offered suggestions for travel apps. Blog posts included options to stay connected when travelling. Also included were key technology things like VPNs that kept us safe online when we travelled.

6) A small number of blog posts provided some tips for people who wanted to start a travel blog.

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Take The Ferry To Newfoundland

August 29, 2021 TravelAtWill 48

Take The Ferry To Newfoundland Two Different Ways We took the the ferry to Newfoundland and back with Marine Atlantic on our road trip to Eastern Canada. Getting to Newfoundland we did the shorter 6 […]

Planning A Summer Road Trip To Eastern Canada

July 11, 2021 TravelAtWill 57

Our Thoughts On Planning A Summer Road Trip To Eastern Canada We are in the final stages of planning a summer road trip to Eastern Canada. This will be our first long road trip in […]

Lessons Learned Travelling In 2020

January 6, 2021 TravelAtWill 58

Lessons Learned Travelling In 2020 Will Change Many Things In The Future While the year was a bust in so many ways, there were many lessons learned travelling in 2020. We were thankful we did […]

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What We Miss About Cruising During The Pandemic Shutdown

December 9, 2020 TravelAtWill 61

A Long List Of What We Miss About Cruising During The Pandemic We often reflected on the long list of things we miss about cruising during the pandemic shutdown. We cruised a lot over the […]

Why We Travel Locally During The Pandemic

November 18, 2020 TravelAtWill 55

We Chose To Only Travel Locally During The Pandemic Some people questioned our decision to travel locally during the pandemic. Others wondered why we have not travelled further. While it may seem contradictory, no decision […]

Things We Learned About Travel And Cruising During The COVID-19 Pandemic

April 5, 2020 TravelAtWill 44

So Many Lessons Learned About Travel And Cruising During The COVID-19 Pandemic We were just two of many who learned a lot about travel and cruising during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these lessons will carry […]

Delivering Customer Service Excellence In Good Times And Crisis

March 29, 2020 TravelAtWill 42

We Saw Customer Service Excellence In Good Times And Crisis The staff and crew of Oceania Cruises Marina delivered customer service excellence in good times and crisis. We wanted to take this blog post to […]

We enjoyed 8 days in Barcelona and then a cruise with Oceania Cruises for 12 days through Spain, the Canary Islands and into Portugal on our return trip to Spain and Portugal. We landed in Lisbon and now will enjoy travelling around the country for almost 5 weeks. We are so excited to finally to be back in Portugal again!

Our second stay in Portugal is in the Algarve at the great Pine Cliffs Resort. We are enjoying a relaxing stay and exploring along the coast.

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Continuing to publish the backlog of travel posts we had in “draft”. We hope this will help to keep you thinking about travel. And planning your next escapes for when you feel it is safe to travel again. Please stay healthy and safe!

Blog posts have NOT been updated to reflect the reality of travelling during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Please make sure to check travel advisories before you make any travel plans. And check regularly. Travel directives can change regularly.