This issue of our newsletter brought to you by Thrifty Traveler Premium Hello Reader, The view over the Beagle Strait and the city of Ushuaia, Argentina from the spa pool of our fave hotel of the year. 🧠Where in the World? January is that peculiar month when we are looking both forward and back. It’s supposedly a good time to review and reevaluate, maybe even learn some lessons. So we checked back on our 2024 travels and found out that we were away from home more than a third of the year,...
8 days ago • 3 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by Thrifty Traveler Premium Hello Reader, Kristin Henning – it doesn't get much more Swedish than that. 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 Come with us to Scandinavia! We're announcing our latest Travel Past 50 tour to Scandinavia, September 18-29, 2025. This 12-day tour (with an optional 3-day extension in Copenhagen) offers guests great flexibility while covering Kris and Tom’s favorite places in Sweden and Norway. Building on our previous experiences in Sweden, we’ll...
15 days ago • 4 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by Thrifty Traveler Premium Hello Reader, Who better to tour Scandinavia with than a Swedish-American? Come with us to Scandinavia! We're announcing our latest Travel Past 50 tour to Scandinavia, September 18-29, 2025. This 12-day tour (with an optional 3-day extension in Copenhagen) offers guests great flexibility while covering Kris and Tom’s favorite places in Sweden and Norway. Building on our previous experiences in Sweden, we’ll combine city...
18 days ago • 1 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the DIY Trip Summit Hello Reader, First, a friendly reminder: The free DIY Trip online conference – all about trip planning for Europe – starts tomorrow, January 7. Make sure you're on the email list to receive the links you'll need to claim your virtual gifts and watch the expert-led sessions. Tickets are FREE and you can watch online for 48 hours after each session goes live. Tom and I are offering tried and true tips for packing light with a...
23 days ago • 4 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the DIY Trip Summit Hello Reader, Whoa, everyone! It’s the last week of the year and we can’t help trying to make sense of it all. The lull between Christmas and New Year’s Day is perfect for a look back at our travels. Simultaneously, we’re rallying for the new year, shaping plans loosely into the spring and fall so we’ll be home while family visits in the summer. Last year took us to Antarctica, an unforgettable experience. 🧠Where in the...
29 days ago • 4 min read
Holiday greetings, Reader, The Lake Isle of Innisfree in Sligo is the subject of one of WB Yeats most famous poems. Today we’re just sending a quick reminder of two very special events. Limited Space! Travel with us on an exclusive tour of Sligo, Ireland This fall (October 2025), we’re taking a tour to Sligo, Ireland, and we hope you’ll consider joining us. But hurry, only four spots remain. Our friend Ciaran McHugh of Ireland in Focus has created a wonderful tour of County Sligo and environs...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
This issue of our newsletter brought to you by the Daily Drop Pro Newsletter Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? We are officially settled in for the holidays, back home. Lights in the windows, on the tree, and at the front door are designed to stave off the cold dark of these shortest days. Where we live, right at the 45th parallel, and approaching Winter Solstice, we have under 9 hours daylight. Out our windows, sunrise on December 21 will be at 7:48 a.m.; sunset at 16:34. (The earliest...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
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;...
about 2 months 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,...
2 months ago • 6 min read