I started 2024 on the island of Sicily, where I stayed for approximately six weeks – starting with a week in Palermo, then taking a bus to Siracusa where I rented an apartment for one month, finishing up with a week in Catania. My original plan had been to stay in Palermo for a month,…
I’ve spent a fair amount of time between these two megacity capitals of the southern cone of South America, so I thought it might be fun to compare and contrast them. Very often people speak of Latin America as a monolith, when this couldn’t be further from the truth. There are big differences in terms…
I’ve come back to Argentina for the third year in a row, but instead of spending all my time based in Buenos Aires, this time I decided to give another city a try for the first month. I chose Mendoza for a few reasons. One, it’s just across the Andes from Santiago de Chile, where…
Santiago de Chile is a polarizing city. And I get it. Usually travelers who make it to the southern cone of South America are headed to Buenos Aires, at least as a first stop. BA has had a long-standing reputation as a beautiful, European-style, exciting, cultured, and ultra-cheap megacity. Santiago…has not. But is this fair?…
In the past, I’ve been a backpacker (and still do occasionally take short backpacking-style side trips), I’ve done traditional vacations staying in hotels, and I also spent 8 years living in Berlin, Germany, as an expat. Every style of travel has its time and place, and one’s life circumstances will often dictate which one you…
Malaga has been becoming more popular with travelers and nomads in recent years – almost a little too popular, considering the sharp rise in accomodation prices. And the Costa del Sol has long been a mass tourism cliche, conjuring up visions of package holidays, high-rise hotels, hordes of lobster-red British pensioners. Well,, it’s certainly highly…
This Balkan capital is changing rapidly and becoming more popular with all types of nomads, tourists and expats. I spent the month of February 2024 in Tirana and will share my impressions as a solo female slow traveler. Why visit Tirana? I needed to split up my time in the Schengen zone, preferably somewhere affordable,…