Replace funny with horrible and let’s get started. So housing in the capital is a nightmare. I personally have moved 8 times in 5 years. Some places were overpriced and waaaay outside the city centre about a 40 min bike ride. After being here for so long I only know distances in bike riding minutes. […]
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I have five friends so naturally when three of them came to visit I tried to impress them. I failed miserably. I was living “outside” the city in a place called Amstelveen so that didn’t help. Years later when my brother and sister-in-law came to visit, I lived closer to the city centre in Buitenveldert
Ever book a trip and think, this must be a scam? Prices so low even yo cheap ass thinks it’s too good to be true? I am talking about a 300 euro all-inclusive vacation for one week to Sicily: flight (from Amsterdam), hotel, transfer, food and drink. sicily all inclusive It was so chilly in
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My friend and I were in the second month of our year-long Australian working holiday visa slumming it up and we decided we needed jobs. After looking for 5 minutes online and knowing we are dainty human beings not geared for manual labour we came to the conclusion that we should pick fruit. We decided
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Iberico ham. If you have never heard of it, it is about time you start educating yourself. It is the meat from this wild Spanish pig that I always picture galloping in the fresh grass on a mountainside. Smiling while frolicking around the wildflowers, a spring melody playing in the background. Magical. Getting juicer and
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Morocco is Opposite Land to me. You think it was cheap but it was expensive. You think they speak Arabic but randomly it’s French too. You think their mint tea is going to be the best but it’s gross flavoured with tones of sugar. You think it is spelt Morroco but it’s Morocco. Like I said, Opposite
When it comes to travel, I can be labelled as many things. An adventurer. A backpacker. A foreigner. Poor. I don’t wear running shoes with bright white socks and khaki capris nor do stay in high-priced hotels and take a tour bus everywhere. I arrive with a bank account that is embarrassing, unlike my wardrobe which is chic (nuh uh). I
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Perusing Pinterest as one does looking to excite your travel senses and you see “The Ultimate Guide to Travelling Europe for under $350”. Since you’re having sleep for dinner tonight but love to travel, your interest is certainly peaked. You eagerly click on the article, hungry for dinner but also hungry for the secrets buried inside this seemingly scrumptious
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Venice Carnival. Picture those elaborate Venetian costumes coupled with the perfect backdrop of the Gran Canal. Naturally, this was on our This is Happening List. Now at this point and time we were so poor. Not the fake poor that rich people complain about but proper poor. At the point where we almost ate ice cube soup paired
I was 25 and that is the last age that you get a discount on Eurail train tickets so I bought one. Seeing as I was still considered a “youth”, I was free of all responsibilities and if I said or did dumb things it was okay. (I am sure someone else besides me thinks that statement
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