How to save money?
Make best use of time?
Gear to bring?
Things to do?
edit: “Staycation” ideas?
Never let your taxi driver/tour guide/etc choose you. Never go with a shill. In Paris never sign a petition.
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Get the local taxi app, car sharing app, whatever, and only use that. You want to encourage more taxi drivers to use apps so they can pick you up no matter where you are and give you a fair price.
I have a PacSafe backpack, and the thing is great for international travel. It’s slash proof with lockable zippers and a detachable strap, so I can feel far more comfortable in areas known for pickpockets and thieves. It’s also great as the only carry-on if you are checking luggage. A laptop fits in it, along with big noise canceling headphones and a jack and a book, plus the side pockets are good for a bottle to fill with water after security and a small umbrella. It has RFID blocking on it, too, which is good for digital thieves.
Don’t try to hit too many places on a single trip, unless you are backpacking. Lugging around heavy luggage from one hotel to the next to the next to the next, from train to taxi to cobble stones to stairs, gets really really tiring. Try to have a minimum 3 night stay at each location or have pre-sorted clothing stuff bags packed so you can keep the heavy luggage in a rental car and just grab a single stuff bag with 2 days worth of clothing.
“Don’t make unnecessary journeys, don’t take risks on treacherous roads, and don’t swim in the sea.”
don’t go chasin’ waterfalls
