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As we noted in this month’s post about the RTW ticket deals for November, one aspect of planning for a RTW trip that people often forget about is planning for the re-entry – in other words, preparing yourself for a return to life at home after your trip is done. This month’s RTW Ticket Watch newsletter is full of tips and advice on coming back home after traveling long-term – and this question … Read more »
You might be familiar with UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, or the organization’s World Heritage in Danger list. Did you know that there’s also a Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity?
This week, UNESCO added 47 elements to the existing list of 166, making a new total of 213 inscribed elements in the intangible list. What’s intangible heritage? … Read more »
They’re the bane of long-term vagabonders: those irritating fees for foreign currencies and doing transactions while abroad. Hitting up an ATM or paying with a credit card can trigger charges you may not have expected. This can smear the memory of a great trip.
The New York Times Bucks blog had a post about 3 Credit Cards without Transaction Fees. For more great tips, check out the reader comments to see what other people … Read more »
You don’t have to be a star athlete to experience the thrills of competition on the world stage. Some of my best travel memories have been made at the foosball table.
The endorphin rush of sports in combination with the similar neurostimulation of travel is delicious.
You don’t need a uniform, contract, nor sponsor. Pickup soccer on the beach or in the plaza, cricket on the banks of … Read more »
Robert Cooke
https://lostvagabonder.blogspot.com
Age: 26
Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
Quote: “‘Vagabonding’ convinced me that I really could go travelling practically anywhere around the world on my own.”
It’s a traveler’s biggest letdown — scaffolding covering the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, giant construction cranes obscuring the skyline of the Pyramids or children in remote villages wearing Brittany Spears t-shirts.
We’ve all had moments like that, moments where we felt somehow cheated, like our experience was not “authentic” enough. But in fact, those are the most authentic moments you’ll find. Moments where you are forced to concede that the world is not the … Read more »
Fleur Britten’s “On The Couch” is the first travel memoir about couchsurfing I’ve seen; this doesn’t mean there aren’t any others, naturally, but it does mean that I picked it off the library shelf with a surge of excitement. “Ooh!” I thought to myself. “This is gonna be good!”
I was, unfortunately, wrong.
Couchsurfing is a practice that … Read more »
Going to the doctors in another country is always an interesting experience. We can find great similarities and parallels between visiting cafés or riding public transportation in America and Europe, or between grocery stores in the US and Japan, but going to the doctor always seems to remind you that you are in a foreign country and … Read more »
You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live … Read more »
It’s sometimes hard to believe there are relatively quiet places in Mexico’s Riviera Maya—the long stretch south of Cancun toward Tulum. I was there only nine years ago, and on a recent trip, I noticed many more hotels dotting the road. But more development doesn’t mean you can’t find a sweet spot in the area, hang out … Read more »