Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Travel Tips: How To Deal With Broken Trip Expectations
It’s happened to me many times before. You spend weeks getting excited for an upcoming trip, imagining how it will be the best vacation you’ve ever taken; however, when you get there it doesn’t live up the hype you’ve created, or something gets in the way. Recently I was excited to head to Lima, a…Read more...
How To Be An Annoying Airline Passenger
As someone who flies about four to six times per month, I regular encounter frustrating airline passengers. Some of the habits of other travelers leave me stunned at how oblivious they are to the fact they’re in a public space. To help you be a more courteous airline passenger — and to give me a…Read more...
A Foreigner In A Foreign Land
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson This is a great travel quote, and one that greatly reflects the issue I have with many travelers. Why do people, when visiting other cities and countries, think the destination should change itself to cater to them? It’s…Read more...
Is There Really Such A Thing As A Bad Travel Destination?
If I was offered a free trip to an unspecified destination, I would accept without hesitation. It doesn’t matter to me if it was a third world country, a tropical paradise, a hiker’s haven or a futuristic city, as all travel destinations have something to teach you. For me, one city that really got me…Read more...
Why You Shouldn’t Try To Control Your Journey
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it” – John Steinbeck Five days. One hundred and twenty hours. Seven thousand two hundred minutes. That’s how long I had been without clothes, my toiletries and my chargers. The airline had lost my luggage in Nice, France, and…Read more...
Notes On Making Long-Lasting Travel Friendships
“Excuse me, where are you staying?! I’m looking for somewhere to sleep.” I turned around to find a young man about my age, 21 at the time, standing there with a giant backpack on. We were at a money exchange in Munich, and his shaggy appearance, the bags under his wide eyes and his quick…Read more...
A Carnivore’s Heaven In Tuscany, Italy
“Abandon hope all ye who enter, for you are now in the hands of a butcher.” This is the quote listed on the head of the menu at Officina Della Bistecca, located in Panzano in Tuscany’s Chianti region that should be talked about in every Italy visitor’s guide. A meat-themed restaurant located above the Antica…Read more...
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