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Arriving in Beijing| Airport to City Centre

November 27, 2019 by hollyGS

I think a huge part of why we were able to get the 24 hour transit visa was that we only had carry-on bags. Upon arrival in Beijing, we filled out our landing cards and proceeded through the disease scanners. From there we turned left at immigration for the visa on arrival desk. We waited about 30 minutes in total to get our visas. No problem. I had been to China before and had to disclose that. Just in case, […]

Categories: Asia, China • Tags: 24 hour visa, aiiport express, airport, Asia, beijing, budget travel, buying tickets, cheap travel, China, chinese vias, getting there, how to, layover, maos mausoleum, metro, night market, short stop over, stop over, tian anmen square, transit visa, travel blog, travel vlog

The Long Journey |YYZ-YUL-PEK-HND (also our un-glowing review of Air China.)

November 23, 2019 by hollyGS

We left for the airport at 8:30am, Mom my picked us up and I drove her car to YYZ (Toronto Airport). We arrived at 9:55am. Our flight was at 1:00pm. The night before, we had trouble checking into our flight because our first of three flights was with Air Canada (even though we booked the whole ticket through Air China), whilst the second and third flights were with Air China. I had to go to the library to print our […]

Categories: Asia, Canada, China • Tags: air canada, airlines, Asia, boarding, budget, budget travel, buying tickets, Canada, cheap travel, China, china air, china visa, flying, layover, montreal, short stop over, stop over, toronto, transit visa, travel day

Arriving in Istanbul Turkey

December 18, 2018 by hollyGS

First thing I should probably mention is that in order to visit Turkey, most people will have to acquire a visa. As Canadian passport holders, we were able to get our visa issued online ( https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ ). You should check about the requirements for your specific nationality, because when we visited Turkey in 2017, we met an American tourist that told us that American citizens were being temporarily barred from entering Turkey, even if they had acquired a visa. This […]

Categories: Asia, Europe, Turkey • Tags: blue mosque, cats, Europe, explore asia, explore europe, hagia sophia, how to, istanbul, istanbul airport, mosque, see the world, short stop over, sultan ahmed mosque, travel asia, travel couple, travel europe, Turkey, turkish food, turkish tea, turkish visa, visa, walking tour

Dublin: Short Layovers

April 15, 2018 by hollyGS

We had initially planned on having more than 24 hours in Dublin Ireland to explore, but that time was reduced to 4 hours because WOW airlines cancelled our flight unexpectedly ( I’ll go into detail about what we think about WOW in a later post…). However, because WOW cancelled our flight, we were able to discover that you can see quite a lot in Dublin with only a few hours to spare. Firstly, it is incredibly easy to get into […]

Categories: Europe, Ireland • Tags: Beer, culture, Dublin, dublin airport, ha'penny bridge, Ieland, short stop over, travel, trinity College, WOW airlines

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Arriving in Beijing| Airport to City Centre

The Long Journey |YYZ-YUL-PEK-HND (also our un-glowing review of Air China.)

Arriving in Istanbul Turkey

Dublin: Short Layovers