This post is sponsored by Holafly. As always, all opinions and experiences are my own. This post also contains affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you make a purchase through my links, at no additional cost to you. If there is one thing our year abroad has taught me, it’s that […]
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When we first started traveling together almost 20 years ago, spontaneous travel could be genuinely spontaneous. We sometimes arrived in a town without a hostel or hotel booked, partly because plenty of smaller places still didn’t have online booking. We’d print directions, call around, or simply show up and hope someone had a room. Today,
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After more than 20 years of traveling, there’s one question Charles and I seem to ask ourselves over and over again. Could we actually live here? It’s a surprisingly different question from whether we like visiting somewhere. We’ve loved countries that would probably drive us a little crazy if we tried to live there full
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After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have slept in pretty much every kind of place you can imagine. We’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels, hostels, Airbnbs and rental apartments, plus our fair share of tents, RVs and other places that probably stretched the definition of accommodation. We’ve slept in hotel rooms
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Most travellers now fly with several battery-powered items: a phone, laptop, tablet, camera, headphones, smartwatch, portable charger or vape. But packing one of them in the wrong bag can cause real problems at the airport. In 2026, aviation safety authorities are warning travellers to pay closer attention to lithium batteries after reports that millions of
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Travel is expensive right now. It’s sad but true. Flights, hotels, gas, food, airport snacks, checked bag fees, it all adds up fast. So when a luggage set comes in at a genuinely accessible price point and still has the features most travelers are looking for, it’s worth taking a closer look. We’ve tested and
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Airline websites are not necessarily badly designed, even though they often feel that way. In many cases, the booking process is doing exactly what it was designed to do: get you focused on the lowest advertised fare before revealing the cost of everything else. You start with a flight that looks like it costs $400.
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