Points and miles have helped me travel more (and better) this year. In fact, I've already saved thousands of dollars, and it's only September.
05.09.2024 - 01:12 / insider.com
In July 2022, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of moving to Europe.
When my husband and I got married in January of that year, we didn't opt for the typical wedding registry. Instead, we sold, donated, or tossed almost everything we owned. Even our cars — which we sold two days before we left the US — had to go.
We headed to Germany, a country we'd never visited before, with just a few suitcases and our two cats. As soon as we arrived, we noticed a lot of cultural differences.
Here are seven things that surprised us about life in Germany.
Points and miles have helped me travel more (and better) this year. In fact, I've already saved thousands of dollars, and it's only September.
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Dating is complicated. Finding love while living abroad can seem impossible.
Summer is over and airlines, like the weather, are shifting into fall mode. That means fewer leisure-oriented flights and more connections aimed at business travelers.
Thanks to my job, I've crisscrossed the Atlantic dozens of times on almost every mainline carrier. My most recent treks were in economy on UK-based rivals British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways.
I've been on over 25 long-haul train rides since I started working as a travel writer in 2015. I tend to take one or two train trips each year, traveling the US in quadrants and stopping in multiple cities along the way.
I moved to Japan from North Carolina with my husband and our young daughter in the spring of 2022. My husband is in the US military and this has been his first overseas assignment.
I love to travel. Luckily, between work and personal trips, I'm on the road for about two weeks of each month.
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Liza Jean Miezejeski, a content creator and founder of Skola, a startup to help students navigate moving to Europe to attend university. It has been edited for length and clarity.
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