• Post Pandemic Super Cheap Celebration Trip

    Post Pandemic Super Cheap Celebration Trip

    Make your post pandemic super cheap celebration trip happen with The Women’s Travel Group.

    Can’t afford an airline upgrade? Buy a day pass to the private airline club and enjoy the ambiance.

    Research the best chocolate shop in Paris: Patrick Roger.   Drop by for a chunk on our Paris trip where we also stay in a Royal Palace!

    Paris budget celebration post pandemic trip

    Down a split of French champagne (two small glasses). Supermarkets in Paris sell it; here is our favorite.

    Post Pandemic Travel Budget champagne shopping in Paris with the Women's Travel Group
    Your home for Bubbly and More

    Never had a massage?…

     
  • Packing and Weather

    Packing and Weather

    Packing and weather  do not dance together well. During Summer, we pack light clothes and tees; therefore,  forgetting that altitude and general direction of winds can create unseasonably cold air. Moreover, we forget that planes are cold and some airports as well. In winter we can overpack again forgetting that in cold weather, one can use sweaters and jeans for a number of days. But that shoes might get wet so we need a second pair. 

    A good way to zero in on what to pack is to make some notes on what you are wearing on different weather days.…

     
  • How To Order Food When You Cannot Read the Menu

    How To Order Food When You Cannot Read the Menu

    How to Order Food When You cannot Read the Menu? This is especially important now when you are all watching our health.

    When You Cannot Read the Menu from The Women's Travel Group
    Enjoying lunch together

    Here are suggestions from The Women’s Travel Group. Let’s use Paris as an example. You will have a wonderful local escort to translate for you, but she might not be by your side when you want a crepe on the street.

    What are your favorite foods? Fresh fish, sweets, red meat? Google translation is your new best friend.…

     
  • Travel Brochure Turn Off’s for Women

    We love them but we hate them. Travel brochure photos tell a story about who is welcomed on the trip and who is not. A look at many brochure photos says this to women:

    Don’t come alone. Dining photos show either couples, families or groupings of people who seem to know each other: toasting together or looking familiarly at one another. You don’t ever see a captain’s table with an empty seat not yet taken? In fact, you don’t see travelers shaking hands and meeting each other either.…

     
  • The Good and Bad of Italian Street Food

    The Good and Bad of Italian Street Food

    Sicily Malta Trip
    Yes real WTGroup gelato hands

    Pizza, arancini, pastries, gelato, and its slushy cousin granita..… this is Sicilian street food you will find on our Sicily Malta Trip.

    In Sicily (March 2019 trip), pizza has a thicker crust, focaccia-like. In some areas, pizza has a top crust also-who doesn’t love double carbs? The good news is if you cannot eat cheese, Sicilians also make pizza without it. The bad news is in some areas it is fried and you will absolutely have to try it!…

     
  • History is the cook in Sicily

    History is the cook in Sicily

    There is no better food on earth…than you will eat on our Sicily trip March 19-29 2020

    eat on our Sicily trip

    There is no better food on earth…than you will eat on our Sicily trip March 19-29 2020

    The March climate is warmed by mild Mediterranean breezes. Over the centuries Sicilian food was influenced by the Greeks, Spanish, French, Arabs and New World.  In fact, the first cookbook with a known named author was written by a Sicilian cook in 5th century BC.

    Here is what history cooks for our trip to Sicily and Malta

    The Arabs donate apricots, spices, sugar, citrus, saffron and tropical fruits.…

     
  • This one should be Your First Overseas Trip

    To take one of the last spots Norway-Denmark-Sweden: here it our trip: CLICK HERE

    To start dreaming: PHYLLISNYCITY@GMAIL.COM

    Norwegian scenery is known as the most beautiful in the world: fjords, waterfalls and the midnight sun. We visit the most gorgeous places in the comfort of our private bus, the famous Flam railway all with our hand-picked escort.

    History and culture: Viking ships, kings and palaces, country estates, Nobel Prizes and Summer festivals. No rushing hotel to hotel during our trip

    Norway Denmark and Sweden are the new gourmet capitals of Europe: fresh fish and lean meats cooked perfectly with flavors deepened by the climate.…

     
  • Don’t Damage Your Iphone Overseas.

    Don’t Damage Your Iphone Overseas.

    Don’t damage your iphone overseas, next time you travel out of the country. Learn a tiny bit about not damaging your iphone and about electrical current. Overseas electrical current is different from that of the US and Canada. There are interesting historical reasons for the choice of our electrical current delivery. Plug sizes and shapes are also different, and the amount of electricity that enters your devices is different.

    Do not damage Iphones overseas from The Women's Travel Group
    US Iphone plug

    Adaptor vs. Converter  In the old days, women packed hairdryers, irons and coils that heated water for tea.…

     
  • Travel gifts for yourself while quarantined.

    Travel gifts for yourself while quarantined.

    Travel gifts to buy for yourself while quarantined, or housebound or limited. All are available on line.

    Longchamps carry on bag in a dark but ‘cool’ color. If you buy in a dutyf free shop, you pay a bit less $145 vs $120?. Choose the  style that has handles long enough to put over your shoulder. That style in its smallest incarnation cannot be locked ( a good idea if you sleep on the plane). Best prices are going to be when currencies are low compared to the US: Mexico City for our Mexico trips, any Euro denominated country like France or Italy for our trips there.…

     
  • What I learned when caught in a dangerous riot

    Yes I was in a dangerous riot along with a member of our group. Here is what happened and what we learned.  We decided to follow pedestrians all walking in one direction. Perhaps there was market? festival? parade? We ended up facing a large square, empty except for a line of men and women. Was this a parade?  We quickly noticed another line moving forward; it was one of armed police. It took a moment to realize there was going to be a confrontation.

     
 
 
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