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There are definite pros and cons for traveling couples. If you research well and are careful about your choices you can save time, money and get a bunch of freebies thanks to your better half. To maximize your trip as a couple, try some of these handy hints:
1. Search for accommodation that you can [...]

Sometimes here on Students In Europe, it is easy to take for granted our collective travel wisdom and forget that there are travel newbies out there that know nothing at all about traveling. In chatting yesterday with an American friend who is about to embark on her first international journey, I [...]

If you’re a student traveler, there’s a good chance you’ve run across this problem: RyanAir (or your budget airline of choice) flew you into the tiniest and most unused airport around and now you don’t know how to get to the city. Or perhaps you’ve run into a related problem: you want to get to [...]

Finding the Simplon Youth Hotel from the street was a bit tricky. It’s located off a hidden courtyard and you have to go through an unmarked brick arch to find it. However, once you finally locate and enter the bright green door, Simplon becomes a pleasant home for your stay in Groningen. It’s clean and [...]

As my search for cheap flights around Europe continues, I keep running across really helpful websites. Apparently, there’s a lot of student travelers out there who have trouble managing the myriad budget airlines that criss-cross the continent of Europe, and a lot of civic-minded web designers interested in helping us out!
My latest discovery is flylc.com [...]

As I continue planning my backpacking, figuring out how to get from a lot of random A’s to a bunch of unusual B’s, I’m running across quite a few helpful websites. My most recent favorite is a Dutch site, lowcostairlines.nl. Be warned, the site is actually in Dutch with no way to switch it to [...]

If the mere mention of travel evokes frightful images of airline tickets, hostel bills and unforgiving exchange rates, think again. While it’s more than possible to spend a pretty penny on a trip overseas, traveling on limited funds (as limited as 5 notes a day) is equally doable.
Enter Leon Logothetis, a London native now world-known [...]

The further north you get the more the cold stings if you find yourself in Europe during the winter, and those of you on a tight budget won’t want to be forking out Euro after Euro on hot drinks so that the cafes don’t kick you out into the snow storm.  Luckily there are a [...]

Taking the train is a popular choice for anyone trying to travel through Europe. A lot of the time, provided you plan ahead and buy the right pass, this is indeed the cheapest way to go about your Europe travels.  However, if you are travelling shorter distances and particularly if you are not crossing any borders, buses [...]

Planning on spending Valentine’s Day in Amsterdam this year?
Amsterdam may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of romantic European cities (could the legal prostitution and drugs have anything to do with this?), but upon visiting, you might be surprised by its lovebird-haven potential.  The endless canals, cobblestone streets and [...]