Tag: planning
Visiting Sintra from Lisbon
Sintra is a magical Portuguese town just a short train ride from Lisbon where you’ll see the kinds of castles and palaces that belong in fairy tales. So is it possible to visit Sintra from Lisbon? Absolutely. Here’s how and what you can expect to await you there. Getting there and back Sintra is well-connected…
A Guide to The Expat Life: Tips For 2021
Guest post by Rebecca Clarke, a UK-based freelance writer whose favourite things include writing, books, travel and caffeine. When she is not writing travel articles or working on the dreaded draft of her first novel, she can usually be found binge-watching true crime documentaries on Netflix. Living abroad is a fantasy for many. It’s a…
Cyber Week GPSmyCity Giveaway
For the past couple of years, I’ve partnered with GPSmyCity to turn some of my articles into GPS-guided apps. Since then, my tips and guides have been helping people get around cities like Budapest, Miami, and Copenhagen. How does it work? GPSmyCity turns my articles into a helpful map that gives you easy-to-follow directions to each of…
Travel rewind: My first time traveling abroad
Everyone’s gotta start somewhere. Before I became an internet authority on travel, I got my traveling start on a two-week trip around Europe. I had just graduated from grad school and in lieu of attending my own graduation, my best friend Lauren and I valiantly set off on a European adventure. Looking back on it…
Things you don’t tolerate when you’re a bougie traveler
Budget travel is fine when you’re young and broke, but when you get to a certain age or a certain standard of living, there are some travel hassles you stop accepting. No one wants to go on a vacation and be more uncomfortable than they are at home, so bougie travelers don’t settle for less.…
The United Arab Emirates vacation I paid $400 not to take
A couple of weeks ago when our friend came to visit with her grand plan of traveling the world, I got excited and decided I would join her in the United Arab Emirates, where she would be spending two weeks. I booked my flight to Dubai and promptly headed to Ukraine, where I spent almost…
