I don’t seem to have luck with Caixa, a popular bank in Spain. Almost two years ago when we started our world travels I tried to withdraw 500 euros from one of their ATMs in a small village outside Grenada, but the machine gave me 400 euros instead.
[Read more…]How to Pack for Longterm Travel
What and how you pack depends on where you go and when. But one piece of advice remains the same no matter what: take as little as possible! No matter how long you plan to travel—one month or two years—pack as if you were traveling for 10 days at the most, and expect to do laundry often.
[Read more…]So, You Want to Travel the World? 10 Steps to Make that Happen
Has it been your dream to take a few months, or even years, to travel the world, or some part of it, but you can’t quite grasp how you would do it, or when? How, exactly, do you step away from the life in which you are so entrenched and make room for long-term travel? What, exactly, would you need to do to make that happen? [Read more…]
7 Advantages of Slow Travel
Slow travel basically means staying at a single location long enough to savor it, whether that be for one week or three months. It means experiencing all you want in a place, at the comfort of your own pace. Often, it is as much about the journey as it is the destination, making adventuring by train, boat, bus, or motorbike just as valid as by plane. [Read more…]
Travel Planning: How Do you Know Where to Go Next and How Long to Stay?
This is a question we get asked often, and one we asked of ourselves when we started our nomadic world travels with the kids.
The simple answer is, it depends. [Read more…]