These windmills are on a island that’s also known for its beaches.
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Of the many reasons we love travel, meeting new people and reconnecting with friends or family top the list.
Exploring Chilean Wine with Sommelier Mabel
From Santiago, we took a 40- minute subway ride, followed by a short taxi ride to reach Concha y Toro, Chile’s largest winery located in Pirque, Chile. While the winery tour with its Casillero del Diablo or Devil’s Cellar is known as both informative and entertaining, we skipped the tour and spent our visit at the Concha y Toro Wine Bar.
Sommelier Mabel (my-bell, please don’t call her Mabel) shared the winery’s history while leading us through flights of its wide range of wines paired with different foods. Crab pie, Amelia chardonnay and Mabel made a memorable afternoon. Prique is south of Santiago in the Maipo River Valley. The subway ride offers glorious views of the Andes.
Practicing English and Discussing Politicians in Sochi, Russia
During a Black Sea cruise, we visited Sochi, Russia. We booked the “Stalin’s Summer Home” tour to take advantage of a group visa. Our guide, Yuri, was an English teacher at the local university and spoke excellent English.
After our tour our guide Yuri asked if we wanted to talk further; invited him for a drink. Yuri wanted to practice his English with Americans as he has never been to the United States. He was curious to know we thought of the political leaders of our respective countries. We had a terrific exchange. Read more about our Sochi visit here.
Visiting Friends in Alaska
Alaska’s mountains, glaciers and wildlife are breathtaking, but our Alaskan friends and family are what makes our Alaska visits special.
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The Children of the World sculpture, North Cape, Norway
Offering breathtaking views more than 1000 feet above the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean, North Cape, Norway is continental Europe’s northernmost tip at 71° north latitude.
The rocky cliff top plateau has lured tourists’ since Italian Father Francisco Negri visited in 1664. The Cook travel agency led a group tour here from London in 1875. 
Unlike early tourists who climbed the North Cape from the sea clinging to ropes, today most visitors arrive by car or bus from Honningsví¥g, Norway, where they often arrive by cruise ship or ferry. A 23 mile road with four bridges and numerous tunnels connects Honningsví¥g to the North Cape Hall on the island of Magerí¸ya.
Inside the complex, you will find a movie theatre, a restaurant, snack bar, post office, an underground gallery leading a large grotto with a concert hall and bar, and, of course, a gift shop.
Outside, spectacular views from the cliff overlooking the ocean give the feeling that you are on the edge of the earth.
Sculpture Created by Seven Children from Thailand to Tanzania
The “Children of the World” sculpture was started in 1988 when author Simon Flem Devold randomly selected seven children from seven countries – Tanzania, Brazil, USA, Japan, Thailand, Italy and Russia — to visit the North Cape to dream of “Peace on Earth“.
During their seven day visit, each of the 8-to12-year-old children made a clay relief symbolizing friendship, hope, joy and working together. In 1989 the reliefs were enlarged, case in bronze and erected in a semi-circle outside the North Cape Hall. A “Mother and Child “monument by sculptor Eva Rybakken points toward the seven disks. 
Cruising to the North Cape
We visited Norway’s North Cape on an 18-day Top of the World cruise, that also explored the islands further north in the Svalbard Archipelago and cruised into the Polar Ice Cap.
A number of Norwegian Fjord cruises visit the North Cape via the port of Honningsví¥g.
Getting to North Cape from Honningsví¥g
Our cruise offered a North Cape Transfer (basically repurposed city buses) for $119 US per person. This fee covered the approximately 23 mile drive plus the entrance fee (which was about $40 US per person). Since four of us were traveling together, we found $480 for a bus transfer/entrance fee excessive.
Determined to see North Cape, Mr. Jones did some online research and found that the Shell gas station near the cruise ship pier in Honningsví¥g offered rental cars. We called ahead from the ship and booked the last car from for 850 Kroner, including tax, gas and insurance.
This translated to $144 dollars based on then currency conversion; today the same price would convert to $158 US dollars. Though we still had to pay $160 in entrance fees, we still came out with $172 in savings, got a Mercedes and had a priceless adventure. Nordkapp Bilservice AS is located at 9751 Honningsví¥g and its phone number is 78 47 60 60.
5000 Reindeer Share the Road
The narrow twisting road may only be 23 miles long, but there’s a reason the bus ride takes 50 minutes. The morning we visited, the area was covered with dense white fog – you could barely see the car lights in front of you, much less the reindeer that roam the area and the roads.
Laplander reindeer breeders bring their herds to the island of Magerí¸ya for summer grazing. With 5000 reindeer roaming a small island, you definitely share the road with them.
Land of the Midnight Sun
The sun never rises between November 18th and January 24 on the North Cape, but Northern Lights illuminate the dark skies.
Conversely, between May 11th and July 31, the Midnight Sun never sets, drawing the majority of visitors.
We love discovering remote places. What’s your favorite destination discovery?
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Every Tuesday is Travel Tip Day
Today: 3 Travel Tips from 35,000 Feet
We are returning from a long fun-filled weekend in Seattle onboard Southwest flight 3085. To speed the three hours of flight time, we are trying the Southwest Airlines Wi-Fi Hotspot, which is a surprisingly speedy internet connection. Considering ourselves travel lucky today — graced with a strong tailwind, an early arrival and emergency exit row seats – we thought we’d share some of our new-found travel tips with our first inflight blog post.
3 Travel Tips from 35,000 Feet
1. Check out Southwest Wi-Fi Hotspot. If you board a Southwest flight, look for the Wi-Fi Hotspot sign near the door as you board. If you see the sign, your flight is equipped with a wireless satellite-based network that allows you to connect to the internet while in the sky. It costs $5 for the flight, (free if you have A-List status.) Even if you don’t pay to connect, the Wi-Fi Hotspot features a free portal that lets you access a flight trackers, shopping and games like Sudoku. The connection speed is likely slower depending on the number of passengers accessing the network.
2. Need wheels in an urban area? Try Zipcar. While in Seattle, we joined our friends Michael and Marion on their first Zipcar car sharing experience. It was a fantastic way to exploring Seattle’s surrounding areas for six hours. Look for a blog post later this week with full details on our Zipcar experience.
3. Still trying to find a free ticket for your summer vacation? Check out http://www.kvstool.com a subscription-based software tool that searches frequent flier seat availability on all major airlines. Using the kvs tool, we’ve already booked our mileage award tickets to Europe for July. But that doesn’t mean that better seats won’t open up as the departure date nears. Every couple of days, we check availability on all alliance airlines through kvstool.com (and we just checked again while inflight.)
If you haven’t found your tickets yet using frequent flier miles, you may want to check this tool for options, before you call the airline. More details on how we find frequent flier tickets here.
Have you tried Wi-Fi in the sky? How was your experience?
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