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Hello Reader,

🧭 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; Bratislava, Slovakia; Nuremberg, Germany; and Strasbourg, France. Exhausting and exhilarating all at once. Watch our Facebook page and the blog for more on this trip. We'll start writing more once we take a nap.

💸 This Week's Best Deals in Travel (It's Cyber Monday!)

• As you just read, we spent almost two months traveling around Europe, living out of one roller bag each. One of the keys to that packing magic is that we each got along with only two (yes only 2!) undershirts from Unbound Merino. It's our favorite travel brand for packing light. If you don't own the very best travel clothing, now is the time because today and tomorrow are the last two days of Unbound Merino's only sale of the year. Aside from the sale prices, there are also coupon codes that will give an even bigger discount: BF10 (spend $100, save $10); BF25 (spend $200, save $25); BF35 (spend $300, save $35). You get the idea – and these are on top of the sale pricing. Don't miss this.
• Another key to our packing light success is Xero Shoes. They're having their end of the year sale with up to 50 percent off some styles.
• Finally, a great travel deal for you that will help you save big on your next adventure: Daily Drop Pro is offering $50 off plus a free set of packing cubes to new Pro members. As a Pro member, you get access to flight deals, miles and points searches, personalized support to help you land your next travel deal, and more. But, our friends over at Daily Drop just let us know that more than half of the packing cubes are gone! So if you want great travel deals and some nice packing cubes, check out Daily Drop Pro here.

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🗞️ Travel News From Around the Web

• Always one of our favorite items of the year: National Geographic announces its favorite photos of the year.
• Overtourism comes to the U.S. Juneau, Alaska is beginning to rethink signing up to be a big cruise ship port of call.​
• Have you noticed that your flights have been on time lately? There's a reason for that, and, yes, it's just what you might have guessed.
• And, if you're Delta flyers, like we are, have you noticed that your upgrades have all but disappeared? We have.

✈️ Points and Miles News

As usual, because of banking regulation, we can't name this card here, but I think we can tell you that there's no annual fee, and you'll get an immediate $200 gift card just for signing up. No minimum spend! If you're a frequent user of a certain online retailer, and you don't have this card, you're really missing out on some great benefits. But apply soon because this offer ends at 6 p.m. EST on Dec. 5!

📖 What We're Reading

Spurred by our visit to Nuremberg, Germany last week, Tom is reading The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by our friend and college classmate Jack El-Hai, about the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi war criminals after World War II. The book is currently being made into a movie called Nuremberg starring Russell Crowe.

For our previous recommendations, check out this list.

❝Travel Quote of the Week❞

Special European Christmas Market-inspired quote: A group of crows is called a murder. A group of people walking slowly in front of me is called a motive. – Abby Heugel

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Happy travels,

Kris and Tom

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