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Unlocking Seamless Connectivity: A Guide to SIM Cards and eSIMs for Travelers
Why getting a SIM card can enhance your travel experience During my first trips around Europe, smartphones and affordable roaming options weren’t widely available. I vividly recall wandering the streets of Lisbon and spending the night out there with my friends at the age of 16, unable to find our way back to our host’s accommodation during our exchange program. While those experiences were undeniably adventurous, having a SIM card and access to the internet would have made our trip infinitely easier. Local SIM Card vs. eSIM: Which is better for travel? When we embarked on our world trip in 2019, eSIM’s were still relatively unknown. As a result, we…
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3 easy steps to change your life and take that “big leap”
Changing your life is very scary, I get it. It was also very scary for me, took quite some months, if not years to decide whether I really want this or not. In the end, we did it: we quit our jobs, left for 3 years of world trip… and well, in the end Covid-19 hit in the 8th month of our trip, and we have no clue again what will happen next. As a side note, the original plan was leaving a year earlier, so now we would be in our second year of our travels, we would have seen more, experienced more, and I wouldn’t be sitting now…
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How to get free degrees during quarantine
Our world trip didn’t go as we planned, in the 8th month the coronavirus hit the world. But after the first shock, we tried to make the best out of it, this is how we ended up having free degrees during the quarantine! We show you how can you still do it during the summer of 2020! 6 months and dozen of countries were behind our back when the first news arrived. China, Lunar New Year and the new virus, but most of us believed (or rather hoped?) that it will be contained and a pandemic would not start. We were wrong. We have spent the Lunar New Year in…
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Geishas and maikos
The world pandemic made us stay in Japan, thus maybe it is also just a perfect time to learn a bit more of the Japanese culture. In the first weeks we are staying around the Kansai region. We arrived here a week earlier than the cherry blossom, so got plenty of time to find the cheapest food options and the nicest cherry trees. The strolls on the empty streets took us to old Kyoto where we noticed a sign in a street – no pictures? The Japanese girls whom we asked about this later didn’t know which street we are talking about, but a European guy who lives in Kyoto…
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Plane ticket rental
When planning a holiday, it’s typical to book a return flight, especially for overseas trips where deals are often more enticing, especially with non-budget airlines. However, when exploring regions like Southeast Asia for an extended period, deciding on the next destination or the duration of stay can be uncertain. In such situations, it’s common to make plans upon arrival, leveraging affordable transportation options like buses or trains to neighboring countries. Yet, this spontaneity may not sit well with immigration officials. To avoid purchasing potentially unused tickets, there are alternative solutions that seasoned travelers and digital nomads have embraced for years. Below, we outline three tried-and-tested options to navigate this challenge…
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The rainforests of the Malaysian peninsula
In the first 1,5 years of the world trip, we are spending around 6 months in tropical, lush countries, and since we prefer nature to the concrete jungles, it is obvious that we planned to go to rainforests. Our first try was in India, where it is safer to get a guide. In Kerala we were suggested by several people to go to Munnar, one of the most famous tea plantation in the country, surrounded by spice plantations, this is how we ended up there after a day-long, crazy bus ride. Even if there was a tea plantation where you can go without the guide (however 15 km by tuk-tuk…
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Planning a world trip
And the idea was born We don’t even remember when did the first spark come. We were already travelling for years alone, with friends or with the NGO where our positions required us to travel, for shorter or longer period. Then we met each other and since we lived in different countries for almost 3 years, Never a weekend home was ready to be born. The idea to get to know the whole world was definitely a childhood dream, but I am not sure whether we actually thought about it seriously in the past. Some years ago our friends went on a world trip, they bought their ticket with Round…
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How to select insurance for a world trip?
In the past months, we have spent days trying to find the insurance fitting our needs during our world trip. First, we heard about the option of having insurance for a trip longer than 90 days with World Nomads, but then friends mentioned Round the world flight‘s insurance, True Traveller and Chapka. Besides, they were also giving us the idea which country’s insurances can be good for a world traveller, we should check in which countries is it common to go for a sabbatical or to work as a digital nomad. So we kept searching around which are the companies who are offering solutions for the criteria we set for our…
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How to discover Oslo during a cold weekend
There are a lot of cities where we can have a quick visit for a weekend – mainly due to the favourable flight schedules since many of these towns would require more days preferably. Oslo is one of them, this was my second time here and I still feel that there is still a lot to discover. Unfortunately, I had no more days off for this year, so we tried our best to fit as much as we could in 2 days. Let’s see what did we achieve! Flight ticket We recently fly from Budapest and Norwegian was giving a great option for a Friday afternoon – Sunday afternoon flight.…
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How to plan a trip to winter wonderland in Iceland – if you can
Ooops… But you can still try to, let us help you with that! Topics covered in this post: Flight ticket Accommodation How to get to the city? How to get around? Car rental Organised trips Food Hidden perks Useful apps and websites Extremely useful websites Flight ticket First of all, it is important to check both the flight tickets and the accommodation simultaneously, both of them can be quite expensive, thus the best is to find the perfect combination. When I first started to have an idea about the hostel prices, I found them even for 15 euro, however, as soon as we found the cheapest dates for flying, there…
