A change in latitude, does wonders to my attitude.

Feeling super confident of the city of London as I have been there many times before, I let my guard down and carried a leather backpack on my back.. where else? We boarded the Eurostar train from Brussels Midi station (Zuid Station), leaving at noon and arriving in King Cross/ St. Pancras about 2hours later. Easy Peasy. I had booked us into the St Giles Hotel, just off Tottenham Court Road. An old hotel that has been around a long time with a fantastic location and newly refurbished. Location wise, this is tops. I would stay here again. After settling in, we got into our rooms but the noise from the renovation works were unbearable, so we insisted on a change of rooms despite the front desk promising us that the work will stop at 3pm. Aaah, seasoned travelles we are, I was not falling for that ruse. We insisted and the duty manager put us in a spacious triple bedded room in the newly renovated wing. We walked down Tottenham Court Road, towards Charing Cross and past Shafest...

I signed up for a tour package by Dutch budget airline Transavia, which in turn farms out their holidays to another company. In the end, you deal with Transavia airlines for plane tickets and a tour company for hotel stay vouchers. As a first time traveller on a European budget airline, I was pleasantly surprised by the routes Transavia offered within Europe. There were plenty of destinations in Greece which made me drool.. But I wanted to take my mum and Ray to Seville, Spain instead. We boarded the Transavia flight at Zaventem Airport via the tarmac and stairs. The plane was a slim bodied aircraft, with 3-3 seating configuration and not much else. Clearly just a point to point kind of flight.. and for 450 euros per pax for 5 nights and flight included. I guess you can't really top that. We arrived in the evening at Aeropuerto de Seville (SVQ) and boarded our pre-booked taxi to the Seville Central Hotel. There are airport-city buses but I wasn't too keen on locating the b...