Archive for 'Advice'
Move Less, See More
Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by Steph.
A lot of things about travel are counter-intuitive: when you travel alone you meet more people, when you spend less money you experience more and the more hidden, dingy and local a restaurant looks, the better the food is guaranteed to be. The hardest travel paradox for most people to grasp though is that the [...]
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The Art of Spanish Under Immersion
Posted on 03. Nov, 2011 by Guest Poster.
More Spanish learning advice by someone who has been a bit more successful than me: Ever since I first set eyes on Steph’s lofty language learning challenge a few weeks back I’ve been following with bated British breath. Just why would she undertake such punishment? What kind of flagrant masochist – with a penchant for Spanish suffering [...]
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The Cheapest Places I Have Visited
Posted on 01. Nov, 2011 by Steph.
One of the questions I’m always asked, in addition to “what country has the best food?” is “where is the cheapest place to travel?” It makes sense that people want to book cheap holidays abroad. When you travel places where your money goes farther, you can stay longer and do more. It’s a lot more [...]
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Speak Right Now: An Interview with Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months
Posted on 23. Oct, 2011 by Steph.
The Spanish Language Challenge Part Three! I have always thought of myself as kind of a language dummy. I’ve had roughly 6 years of formal language education (4 in Spanish, 2 in Italian) and nothing has ever stuck. I started to think it just wasn’t possible. When I first met Benny Lewis, who is known [...]
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Three Personality Traits that Make a Successful Expat
Posted on 06. Oct, 2011 by Guest Poster.
You’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’ve been googling jobs abroad, exploring ESL teaching opportunities, researching backpacks, pricing flights and dreaming of booking them. You think you might be ready, finally ready, to take the leap and embark on a new life abroad. But traveling the world isn’t all glitz and glamour. If [...]
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How to Boost Your Travel Karma
Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Steph.
This is not as hippy-dippy as it sounds, I swear. I’m not a terribly religious person, but there is one life philosophy I do ascribe to, and that is the idea of karma. I believe that what you put out into the universe comes back to you; sometimes in strange and unexpected ways. I guess [...]
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Rosetta Stone: Does it Work?
Posted on 02. Oct, 2011 by Steph.
The Spanish Language Challenge Part 2 (Part Dos?): Learning Spanish is (probably) 90% will power. Sadly, will power is not my strong suit. When it comes to Spanish it seems that I have this painful mental block that I just can’t seem to push past. I think it’s PTSD from high school Spanish and those [...]
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Staying Safe When You’re On Your Own
Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 by Steph.
Yes, another list of safety tips. Since I really opened up on some of the grimmer realities of traveling as a solo female earlier this week, I thought I would try to re-assure everyone by providing some simple safety tips that can make all the difference when you are out there on your own. It’s [...]
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Diving Myths: Revealed!
Posted on 01. Sep, 2011 by Guest Poster.
My first scuba instructor loved to say that 70% of this earth is water, and if you haven’t been diving, you are missing out on a big part of this world. My name is Alexandra Baackes, and I am a scuba diving addict. I wasn’t always this way, in fact just two short years ago [...]
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