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This week, the music video to the vastly overplayed Spanglish summer hit āDespacitoā bypassed āSee You Againā by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth as the most-watched YouTube video of all time, according to TechCrunch. The most watched YouTube video of all time. That means that more than cat videos, more than baby videos, more than […]
Boston, Massachusetts isn’t exactly party central. But, like pretty much any city, you can find fun and cheap nightlife/other drinking opportunities if you know where to look. Except for maybe like, Dubuque, Iowa, but then again, I haven’t been there, so I wouldn’t know. I recently flew from my California hometown to Boston to meet […]
If you were at Stansted Airport in London on June 12, 2017, you probably saw a girl wearing a dress, leggings, shorts, and two jackets to avoid Ryanair baggage fees, clutching her shoes and backpack to her chest while frantically running through the airport in her socks. That girl would have been me, and that […]
Dear Individual Who’s Afraid To Travel Alone, Hey! How are you? Your hair looks great today, has anyone told you that yet? So! You want to travel. You’re in your final semester of high school and planning to go to college, but don’t feel mentally prepared to start yet. Or, you’re about to finish college, […]
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first-ever edition of Shit American Tourists Say. Today’s episode focuses on what these most fascinating individuals say when placed in an environment they’re not used to. We’re not in Kansas anymore, folks. Here are the best things I overheard our lovely Americans say in Keflavik Airport in Iceland. Please […]
In 2011, when I was fresh out of high school and not prepared to start college yet, I took a gap year in which I spent four months working in my hometown of Santa Cruz, California and then three months volunteering with a non profit organization inĀ Antigua, Guatemala. Since I had only ever been out […]
Picture this:Ā Jessica wearing her cow onesie and laying on her friend’s couch inĀ Vitoria-Gasteiz (small Spanish town near Bilbao), trying to use the bus company Alsa to find a bus back to Barcelona and audibly complaining because Alsa doesn’t like to let people book buses with foreign credit cards. Fed up with the whole Barcelona bus […]
After four days of visiting Barcelona in 2015, I was completely in awe of the city and knew I wanted to come back and live here. So, a year later, I did. While I’m obviously still technically a tourist in Barcelona, since I’m not from here and have only been here for four and a half […]
Guest post by Michelle Rick. You can find her on Instagram or atĀ michellearick.com. According to Pinterest, thereās a place that has beaches for days, because itās an island, and islands tend to be surrounded by water. Its menu is designed to nurture the taste buds of a deliciously, nutriciously Instagrammable diet. And thereās many an […]
If you’ve talked to me for longer than ten minutes, you know that I’m about as patriotic as a potato. (Read: not patriotic at all.) Whenever anyone asks me where I’m from, I always say “California” instead of America. I even went as far to lie on my Couchsurfing.com account that I’m from Montreal (which […]
