Bratislava for Christmas
Last year we had planned, as we have for most of the last three decades, to spend Christmas in Slovakia with family. But then the Delta variant rampage commenced and we ended up cancelling our trip. True we did take a few days to visit NYC via Acela, and we created a reasonable version of a Slovak Christmas Eve dinner complete with Kapustnica, but in hindsight we probably should have gone to Europe as planned. That perspective comes a year later, perhaps informed by my own thankfully mild case of Covid just in time to have run its course for our Summer trip, but in any case we eagerly anticipated a return to the Old Country this year, tripledemic or bust!
A pleasant surprise as we began planning travel was a real find - An AAdvantage Biz award ticket on AA metal that avoided punitive LHR fees.
Thus today I found myself in a pre-scheduled Uber to BWI (in hindsight not the best deal at about $75 - Incould have gotten a real time Uber for about $30 less).
So, the trip:
AA BWI-CLT-MUC (AA award, F and Biz)
LH/OS/LH MUC-(stopover)-VIE-FRA-IAD (UA saver award).
Follow along or ignore!!