Travel Prep
Few things are better than coming home from your travels with new insights, vivid memories and an SD card (or film roll) of amazing photographs. However, few things are worse than coming home without your valuables or earlier than planned due to unforseen circumstances, health issues or theft.
A lot of things can go wrong when you travel, and subsequently cast a gloomy shadow over that fabulous holiday… however none that …
After weeks of polling around, fellow travel writer Mike Barish discovered – or rather, confirmed – that out of the 8,000 votes that were cast in the Hotel Madness tournament, the worst of hotel pet peeves is having to pay for wi-fi. A befitting choice if I do say so myself.
Illustration by Elliott Golden
I don’t know about you, but it absolutely baffles me that having to pay for wi-fi …
I am currently searching for a new flat in Berlin. Other than wooden floors, a balcony and cool bars in the area, an important criteria for me is a short way to my day to day hotspots, such as the Travelettes office, friends’ apartments and my favourite breakfast place. While checking Google maps for those distances from and to the apartments I was looking at, I came across a fun …
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Have you ever arrived somewhere and been so utterly disappointed with what was waiting for you; dirty streets, unwelcoming locals, terrible weather and rude waiters? Sometime a city just doesn’t live up to your expectations but no need to fear, there is now a medical condition related to this destination disappointment; introducing Paris Syndrome or Syndrome de Paris
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Paris Syndrome occurs when an experience in a new city becomes too stressful …
The e-mail home is an essential part of every traveller’s journey, as when intrepid teenagagers or first time travellers set off to explore deepest darkest Peru it can be a nail-biting time for worried parents.
I was recently gifted a hilarious book called Don’t Tell Mum: Hair-Raising Messages Home From Gap-Year Travellers. It’s a collection of anecdotal emails from first time and inexperienced travellers illustrating that sending an e-mail home doesn’t …
I’m a self confessed book geek and on a good day by the pool I can read 2 or 3 books in a go. Not only does this become an expensive habit to keep me amused when topping up my tan, it also means I sometimes have to sacrifice packing a dress or two in order to make room for my holiday library. That’s why I’m very happy to have my Kindle …
As you might know from my description in the meet the Travelettes section, I really wanted to go on a England roadtrip since … well, ever. When my friend Luisa asked me last winter to do a trip like this with her this summer, I was jumping around like a crazy chicken. I so would! Since then, I dream of England in the brightest colours and see ourselves rockin’ the …
Okay, so I’m the first to admit that I’m not the best photographer amongst the Travelettes team (and I’m very proud to work alongside such a talented bunch of ladies) but here I am sharing with you a little guide to photography & equipment you might want to take on your travels.
Having bought my first digital SLR just over 8 months ago, I’m still navigating my way around the sea …
Gone are the days when music festivals were only about pot-bellied heavy metal fans and men who didn’t shower for three days in a row. I’ve drunk my share of 10am-beers whilst sat in a fold-up camping chair on a muddy field (and thoroughly enjoyed it, too!)… but especially in recent years, festival culture has become a lot more diverse and than that.
photo by NME magazine
Music festivals have a special …
There are lots of reasons to visit Chile. A stunning and one of the most diversified landscapes is one of them. In about 4000km of coast offering the driest desert of the earth (the Atacama desert), a region called Lake District with volcanos, deep blue lakes and silent green forests and awe-inspiring Patagonia with its rain forests, fjords and glaciers, you might well find your very own piece of paradise.
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