This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Pro Newsletter Hello Reader, The gargoyles and other statues on the outside of the Strasbourg Cathedral are the best in Europe. 🧠Where in the World? As you read this, we're in the air flying home to Minneapolis from Paris after a nearly two month-jaunt around Europe, mostly on our Eurail passes. To sum up, we visited Rome, Florence, Venice and Padua, Italy; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Zagreb, Croatia; Graz and Salzburg, Austria;...
18 days ago • 3 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Pro Newsletter Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? Could this look any more German? The Albrecht Dürer Square in Nuremberg. More beautiful train travel this week delivered us to Salzburz (Austria) for a few days and now to Nuremberg, Germany. We’re traveling on a flexible Eurail Global Pass which gives us up to 10 travel days within two months. Eurail’s Global Pass serves 33 European countries. This, versus a single-country pass,...
25 days ago • 6 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Newsletter Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? The charming city of Graz, Austria has an eclectic mix of old and new aspects to the city, including this bridge built a few years ago. First, before you read this, consider your source. In Padua, two weeks ago, we visited the pharmacy for me. Today, in Bratislava, we visited the pharmacy for Tom. In between, one or both of us has been coughing and suffering sinus and upper respiratory...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Newsletter Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? One of the frescoed chapels in the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. We’ve moved on from Italy and the wonderful town of Padua to start using our Global Pass with Eurail. Before leaving Padua, though, we took a quick tour of the University’s Palazzo Bo and saw the historic Anatomical Theater and the famous podium built for Galileo, who taught there. Little did we know that the...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Newsletter Hello Reader, 💸 This Week's Best Deals in Travel We've moved this feature up to the top this week because there are two great deals that can save you money in your travels that are expiring soon. Take advantage of them. Although there's an initial spend, you'll make back many times what you invest in benefits. Our favorite card's enhanced signup offer is ending soon This is our favorite travel credit card (which...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by REI Co-op Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? The Borghese Gallery. Crowds are just a part of life in Rome. It's been several years since we’ve been to Italy, and so it seems both familiar and new. We arranged guides for the essential sights such as Ancient Rome's Pantheon and the Theater of Marcellus, and for the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Saint Peter’s Basilica. While we've seen all that before, our Context Travel guides managed to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by Thrifty Traveler Premium, where we just learned we can book round trip tickets to Alaska for 32K points. Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? Here we are unpacking and packing, updating our vaccinations, and readying our little abode for winter. We’ve already voted; our digital subscriptions will keep us informed as much as we want. Travel does have a way of lowering interest in passing politics. This weekend we took a quick drive to Omaha so Tom...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Sign up for FareDrop's Limited plan and receive top flight deals straight to your inbox. Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? Are we coming or going? A bit of both. Looking ahead to Italy next week, but also to the great unplanned travel after that. Other than our return flight in December, we haven't booked a thing other than the last two weeks of October in Rome, Florence, and Venice. Will we approach Montenegro from the north or south? Will we stop in Athens? Will we treat ourselves to a...
2 months ago • 4 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by REI Co-op Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? Mallorca agrees with Kris. After five busy days each in Menorca and Mallorca, Spain, Kris is sifting through photos and notes to write up stories about both. (In the meantime, you can see snippets on Facebook and Instagram @TravelPast50.) Mallorca is bigger, mountainous, a bit warmer than Menorca, which is green and rocky and more rural, and just one-fifth the size of Mallorca with only one-tenth the...
3 months ago • 5 min read