Here’s a post I wrote today in Forbes.com: Tricks to save time, money and make the most of your travels, especially when you team up with others.
“During my 19th summer, I got on a plane and landed in Paris with a backpack, a Eurail student pass, a few hundred dollars in waitressing money, and the vaguest of plans that could only be described as, “Get on a train, lie on a beach, do some cool things in Europe.” Sitting on Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, I met people around my age from Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland and the United States. We had so much fun that day, eating gelato and flirting with each other, we decided to travel together throughout the continent. Our accommodations would usually be a hostel, sometimes a hotel, and once even under a tree on a beach towel at the foot of a volcano in Santorini, Greece. We’d all chip in for bread and cheese and wine and eat as locally as possible—pizza in Venice, spaghetti bolognese in Rome—that kind of thing. I came home a month or so later flat broke, sunburned, with a lifetime’s worth of memories, and even a friend I’ve kept to this day.” >> READ MORE