Backpacking | Budget Travel | Living Abroad
Despite being the largest and one of the wealthiest nations in the EU, Germany is a relatively affordable place to live with lower costs than some of its neighbours to the west and north, although it’s still very expensive when looked at from an overall European perspective. It also stands out as a country that […]
Below, we’ve outlined an exciting Europe backpacking route that will see you whizz around the continent by rail, taking in 10 cities and 9 countries in just 3 weeks. It’s a good option for anyone with a lot of energy but little experience of travelling around Europe who wants to visit a lot of the […]
In this post, we’re going to to look at the busiest airports in Germany. Two years have now passed since the pandemic started and air travel has still not fully recovered. We will therefore look at figures from both 2019 (the last year fully unaffected by Covid-19) and 2021. Figures are rounded up or down […]
Today, we’re going to head around the globe and look for some of the contenders to the crown of music capital of the world. From the worlds of rock, rap and pop to classical and country, and everything in between, here are 10 of the best music cities (in no particular order). 10 of the […]
Street art has become an increasingly accepted and popular part of urban life in the 21st Century. On this page (updated in April 2020) we list some of the very best street art cities across the world. The journey takes us from the home of Bansky in England right around the Earth to Asia, Oceania […]
Just about anywhere you go in Europe, New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest nights of the year. In towns and cities across the continent, young people come out to party and wave goodbye to the old year and say hello to the new one. If you’re looking to get away over the period, […]
Berlin is a city you have to visit to truly understand the Europe of the 20th Century and the Europe of today. For so long, it was the symbol of division, the only place where the Iron Curtain was a tangible divide. On the 13th August 1961, construction began on a wall that for 28 […]
