Our Next Adventure: London, Spain, and Malta in January
It's been a hot minute since we updated our blog here. This winter was insane with plowing for me and job stuff for Lacey. Then this spring we spent quite a bit of time planning for wedding things. With the wedding coming into shape (only 4 months away), we've turned our attention to the trip after the wedding. Actually, that's not entirely true, my focus has always been on the trip after the wedding haha.
Anyway, we found tickets through Aer Lingus to go to London for 2 weeks. We'll leave on December 31 (3 days after the wedding) and land in London after a stopover in Dublin on January 1. London is a very special city to me (I lived there for 4 months a long time ago) and for Lacey (she lived there for 5 weeks a couple years ago). We're incredibly excited to see this city together and share some of our favorite things with each other.
We wanted to go somewhere warm and maybe fit in some island time. We talked about a lot of different places including Sardinia, Sicily, and Greece. But ultimately, all of those had issues with the weather or being offseason. After a lot of discussions, we decided on Malta and we're super excited about it. Malta has been getting more and more popular the last 10 years but it's still a little off the beaten path, especially in January. Valletta, the capital, has a beautiful old town. There are other small islands we could take a ferry to and visit. The weather won't be crazy warm but it will be sunny and 60 which will feel fantastic.
Once we decided on Malta, we just needed to decide on the other area we wanted to visit. On our big international trips, we like to visit 3 distinct areas to get more variety. Malta is just south of Italy so we thought about some Italian cities--as that would be the most logical. We also talked a lot about going to Israel or the Middle East because Malta is about halfway there. But in the end, we didn't go with any of these options.
After lots of research and flight checking and youtube video watching and pros/cons lists, we are going to go to Barcelona and Madrid. The flights are cheap and convenient from London and on to Malta. The weather there should be at least decent. The food is super exciting. It's not as cliche as Italy and neither of us has ever been there before. Basically, it was exactly what we wanted from our third stop.
So you can see below our general outline for the trip. The parentheses show where we'll be sleeping. I'll also post a picture of the overall flight plan.
Anyway, we found tickets through Aer Lingus to go to London for 2 weeks. We'll leave on December 31 (3 days after the wedding) and land in London after a stopover in Dublin on January 1. London is a very special city to me (I lived there for 4 months a long time ago) and for Lacey (she lived there for 5 weeks a couple years ago). We're incredibly excited to see this city together and share some of our favorite things with each other.
We wanted to go somewhere warm and maybe fit in some island time. We talked about a lot of different places including Sardinia, Sicily, and Greece. But ultimately, all of those had issues with the weather or being offseason. After a lot of discussions, we decided on Malta and we're super excited about it. Malta has been getting more and more popular the last 10 years but it's still a little off the beaten path, especially in January. Valletta, the capital, has a beautiful old town. There are other small islands we could take a ferry to and visit. The weather won't be crazy warm but it will be sunny and 60 which will feel fantastic.
Once we decided on Malta, we just needed to decide on the other area we wanted to visit. On our big international trips, we like to visit 3 distinct areas to get more variety. Malta is just south of Italy so we thought about some Italian cities--as that would be the most logical. We also talked a lot about going to Israel or the Middle East because Malta is about halfway there. But in the end, we didn't go with any of these options.
So you can see below our general outline for the trip. The parentheses show where we'll be sleeping. I'll also post a picture of the overall flight plan.
Dec 31 - Leave MSP at 7pm
Jan 1 - Land in London at 12pm, London (London)
Jan 2 - London (London)
Jan 3 - London in morning/afternoon, then fly to Barcelona late (Barcelona)
Jan 4 - Barcelona (Barcelona)
Jan 5 - Barcelona (Barcelona)
Jan 6 - Barcelona, then evening train to Madrid (Madrid)
Jan 7 - Madrid (Madrid)
Jan 8 - Madrid (Madrid)
Jan 9 - Fly to Malta in morning, Malta (Malta)
Jan 10 - Malta (Malta)
Jan 11 - Malta (Malta)
Jan 12 - Malta, then leave Malta to London in evening (London)
Jan 13 - London (London)
Jan 14 - Leave London at 10:55am, Explore Dublin (Dublin)
Jan 15 - Leave Dublin at 2:10pm
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