The beauty of any plan is that once you’ve made it, it looks perfect. (Especially when it’s your own.) When you make your own travel plans, it is easy to assume that everything will work smoothly. It is easy to assume that you’ve thought of everything, that you’re allowing enough time for every activity, and…
Even with a great destination and activities, a travel day can fall apart. Most of the time this isn’t because of what you’re doing or where you are, but because of how your day is structured from morning till night. When you’re starting out, the temptation with an itinerary is to use it as a…
We’ve all been there. The initial enthusiasm and a vague destination, and then, somehow, somewhere down the line, things get complicated. There’s too much for one day, or you realise you’re going to have to get a bus, a train and a taxi just to get from A to B, or that you need to…
When you are planning a trip for the first time, it’s easy to feel like you are trying to tackle too much at once. You have to consider the destination, the logistics of getting there, the timing, the budget, and so on. In this case, you don’t want to practice planning a whole trip at…