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Just a few more days to go…
Day 3: The Fun Stuff
You’re about ready to take off, and that’s something to celebrate! One of my favorite things to do is to make and listen to a travel playlist – mine is called King of the Road Tons of great songs have been written about [...]

Charles Stevenson is a 26-year-old Washington state native and Managing Director of Snow or Sand, a student-oriented travel company founded in 2009.  From the West Coast, Charles leaped across the country to study at Boston’s Northeastern University and took another great leap to do a semester abroad in Perugia, Italy.  After graduation and two years [...]

The day of my departure is fast approaching, and I’m still running around like crazy getting ready! But busy doesn’t have to mean disorganized. Here are my suggestions for what to accomplish as you get closer and closer to take-off.
Day 8: More Details
Ask the post office to hold your mail or change your address to [...]

I am a devout fan of public transportation and of any city that has it together enough to have one card that works on every form of public transport on offer. London is most definitely that city. The Oyster Card is an awesome top up card that you can swipe and use on any and [...]

Forget booking a hostel or hotel online. Book on your iPhone. Thanks to a new app called Hostel Hero, tech-savvy backpackers can book on the go using on their iPhones and iPod Touches!
Now, here is where I must admit that I don’t have an iPhone. Or a Blackberry. Or an iPod Touch. But I admire [...]

As a student, what is the most important thing you look for when buying flights?  Comfort?  Style?  A specific airline?  Or, like me, is cost always your main priority?
If so, you’re in luck: low cost is what Fly.com does best.  A flight comparison web site that works with hundreds of airlines, big or small, Fly.com is [...]

As you get ready to leave for your trip abroad, you may find you’re a little nervous. Don’t be embarrassed. Foreign travel is a big deal, and that goes double if you’ll be gone for more than two months and triple if this is the first time you’ve done it. Culture shock is real, you [...]

March 7 marks the end of National Foreign Language Week and, now that I think about it, the language bug seems to have bitten everyone around me. My boyfriend’s mother and I have each embarked on a quest to master the other’s language (in her case English, in mine Czech), my father has applied, on a [...]

Interview with career railway man Mark Smith from The Man in Seat Sixty-One.

I’ve been running around like crazy these past few days trying to get everything taken care of before I go! As always, I find there’s more to do than I think, and some of it takes more time than I thought it would (it’s always a good idea to start your preparations early). Such is [...]