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How I Slept On A Train

My friend walked me back to the Amsterdam Centraal Station. “Your train will come in there.” She said, holding my ticket and pointing down the station to my terminal. I thanked her and hugged her bye, excited to board a train all by myself down to Munich. I grabbed a bite to eat and…

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Budget Travel, Europe, Travel Tips

How I Schedule My Travel Itinerary

I’m a three-day kind of girl. I land in a city, I explore it for three days, I board a plane and head to the next place. When I travel, I can’t handle the idea of not seeing everything I can, especially when travel throughout Europe is so accessible and affordable. This can make fitting…

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Enjoying Oslo Norway on a snowy January morning.

Budget Travel, Europe, Travel Tips

How I Book My European Winter Excursions

I adore traveling in the winter. The flights are cheap! Christmas Markets are thriving! Twinkle lights hang everywhere! The tourist sites are not so crowded – it’s easy to fall in love with every winter wonderland you meet! However, if you’ve ever tried traveling in the winter, you may have noticed that your flight options…

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Europe, Stories From a Female Traveler, Travel Tips

Stories From a Female Traveler: Meet Chelsea

My friend, Krystal, and I sat down at the table in the small country pub our tour had stopped at for lunch. A warm, Guinness Beef Stew in front of me. I was so excited to warm my bones after the snowy day we had enjoyed in the Wicklow Mountains. How we found ourselves sitting…

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Europe, Mistakes I've Made

Exploring Arthur’s Seat (The Wrong Way)

My watch buzzed early, alerting me that it was time to wake up. Today, we were climbing Arthur’s Seat! I studied the printout hanging on the wall of our super awesome hostel in Edinburgh! It detailed how to climb Arthur’s Seat, the extinct volcano on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I not only memorized the instructions, I…

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Europe, Travel Tips

The Great 7 Country Excursion

Kids, today I’m going to tell you about how I accidentally had a 7 country excursion in 22 days. If you remember from this post, my husband knocked me off my feet when he found some wildly cheap airfare. Before I knew what I was doing, I had whipped out my credit card and booked the flights….

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