10 things you didn’t know about accommodation booking with Booking.com
For years, I had been booking my accommodation strictly via hostel websites (directly via links I found on Google maps and via the portals hostelbookers, hostelworld, and Hostelling International's own hihostels.com). Then, I was approached by Booking.com to write about their
House sitting with TrustedHousesitters.com: Vacation with Friends
For anyone looking to save money on their next vacation accommodation without spending part of their week working as they might with programs like WorkAway, house sitting is an interesting alternative. House sitting programs have you guard your hosts' house
Learning languages with Duolingo
One of the reasons why I designed Walking Home to cross France was to improve my French skills. I never learned the language at school but only discovered a few years ago that speaking another language (besides German and English)
A brief guide to WWOOFing, WorkAway & Co.
After having laid out in my last post what WorkAway can do for you and why it’s a great tool to spice up your vacation while being kind to your budget, here is a brief overview of the main contenders
Le Français. Il est très difficile. – Five tools to learn French
Unfortunately, I never had the foresight to enroll in French lessons at school . Since my early years of schooling took place during the GDR era , Russian was my first language. In seventh grade I picked up English. However,
Off to Warsaw
One of the pluses of working is that you may get to go on a business trip. And if you're really lucky - like me this week - you get to add on a few days to spend the weekend at your
Call me
Doing it the smart way I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love my smart phone. However, before the trip I had decided that Africa wasn't the right continent for a device with a touch screen and a battery that could barely survive for one day. I had also decided that getting a travel SIM would connect me to friends and family regardless of where I was. How wrong I was!
Seeing is believing
In today's world where even the cheapest mobile phone includes a camera and everyone in the Western world has a mobile phone I met a man - Australian, well versed, well traveled - who didn't own a camera. He was travelling for close to a year. He was climbing mountains, crossing rivers, diving into cities unknown. And had no photos to prove it.