Ready to make booking faster, easier and available anywhere? Our free iOS and Android apps are perfect for researching hostels and booking on the go, so you can plan your trip from your smartphone, wherever you are. Download them from Google Play and iTunes now… So everyone’s heard that urban backpacker myth about the guy who was held…
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Pooping Abroad: How to Find the Cleanest Toilets When You’re Travelling
Toilets on mt. Kenya. Image: SuSanA Secretariat The first time I got up close and personal with a squat toilet, I was in Delhi Airport on a stopover, waiting to board a flight to Thailand. I hadn’t thought about the loo situation on my upcoming island-hopping trip – but now confronted with an alien, vacuum-moulded plastic bowl…
What does $1 buy you in every European country
Attention Eurotrippers! As you know, it’s always been our mission to help you find the best budget accommodation going. Now we’ve decided to take it a step further. To keep you on the road and enjoying your trip for longer, we’ve found at least one thing you can buy in each country for just one…
45 Travel Hacks that Will Make You A Better Backpacker
Yup, you read that right – call us optimistic, call us deluded, call us arrogant, call us whatever you like, but what we have for you here are all the travel hacks you’ll ever need; from ensuring you never miss a flight to finding your own personal omnipresent guide, from making sure your electronics are…
14 Pictures That Prove Travel Selfies Are the Best Thing Ever
Source Ready to make booking faster, easier and available anywhere? Our free iOS and Android apps are perfect for researching hostels and booking on the go, so you can plan your trip from your smartphone, wherever you are. Download them from Google Play and iTunes now… We all love to hate selfies. But we’re all guilty of taking…
8 Dumb iPhone Photography Mistakes You Keep Making
Ready to make booking faster, easier and available anywhere? Our free iOS and Android apps are perfect for researching hostels and booking on the go, so you can plan your trip from your smartphone, wherever you are. Download them from Google Play and iTunes now… So we 21st century kids left the old school camera…
11 Reasons Travelling in Your 30s is Better than Your 20s
How is travelling in your 30s different from travel in your 20s? Find out in our 11-point guide to being a thirty-something backpacker… When you’re 22, it feels like you’ll be young forever. Sadly, you won’t. You’ll get old. It sucks. But being older doesn’t mean you have to give in to Sandals holidays; you…
5 Golden Rules for Staying Safe when you’re Backpacking
Shocking – that’s the only way to describe this viral GoPro of Canadian Alex Hennessy being robbed at gun-point in Buenos Aires . It got me thinking about travel safety tips in general, and what I’d tell anyone about to set off on their first backpacking trip. First off: the world is not a dangerous, unkind place, and the benefits of going somewhere new far outweigh the risks….
Solo female travel – Nine myths and one truth
“Along the way I’ve heard every misconception about solo female travellers you can imagine, so I’m here to set the record straight with nine myths and one truth about solo female travel…” – This week’s guest blogger is Stephanie Yoder, a girl who can’t sit still. She’s a traveller, a writer and blogger at Twenty Something Travel . To keep…
9 more of the craziest party cities in Europe
Our last post on the best party cities in Europe got such overwhelming attention that we figured we had to reply. It looks like you agreed with our picks, but you also let us know that we’d missed a whole bunch. And so, to remedy that little discrepancy, we’ve decided to take your suggestions, check them out and compile a…
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