New to the blog? Here’s everything you need to know: my best travel tips, Europe travel advice, tips for becoming an expat, and more.
Travel tips:
- How to Plan an Inexpensive But Awesome Trip Abroad
- The Best Travel and Debit Credit Cards for Backpackers
- 5 Creative Ways to Approach Trip Planning
- 12 Tips for Overcoming Travel Anxiety
- How to Travel A LOT While Working a Full-time Job
- 12 Travel Accessories That Drastically Improve Long-term Travel
Europe travel tips:
- 20 Essential Tips for Your First Oktoberfest
- What to Wear to Oktoberfest: A Complete Packing Guide
- Where to Find the Best Picnic Spots in Paris
- 15 Unique Things to do in Lyon, France (From a Local!)
- The 10 Things That Surprised Me Most About Iceland
Africa travel tips:
- 11 Unique Things to do in Cape Town
- The 9 Best Things to Do in Stone Town, Zanzibar
- The Ultimate One-Week Zanzibar Itinerary
- Confession: I Didn’t Love My Overland Tour of South Africa
Living abroad:
- 10 Ways Living Abroad Will Permanently Change You
- How to Make Friends in a New City
- The Truth About Dating Abroad
- How to Become Fluent in a Second Language
- What Living in Uganda is Really Like
Read my full living abroad expat interview series here.
Long-distance walks and hikes:
- The Ultimate Guide to Hiking Hadrian’s Wall
- Tips for Safely Hiking the Dolomites (Without a Guide!)
- How Much Does it Cost to Walk the Camino de Santiago?
- The 15 Things That Surprised Me Most About the Camino de Santiago
- The Ultimate Camino de Santiago Packing List
Au pair advice:
- How to Become an Au Pair
- How to Pick the Right Host Family
- How to Get Along With Your Host Family
- 10+ Gifts to Bring Your Host Family
Best writing (a.k.a. my favorite posts):
- 25 Things It Took Me 25 Years to Learn
- What I Learned from Giving Up Meat, Alcohol and Complaining in India
- 15 Things I Learned About Wine After a Year in France
- Dear Paris: A Love Letter to the City I Finally Adore
- The Girl I Was on Koh Tao
- Finding My Perfect London Neighborhood
- Moments from a Weekend in the French Countryside
- Remembering My First Love: South America
- Things That Surprised Me About Germany
- Practicing Gratitude Wherever You Go
- Why I Honestly Came to Bali
- Is It Smart to Travel Young?
- 10 Ways that Travel Permanently Changed Me
