How to Plan a Trip from Scratch

Although I'm not a Digital Nomad and do jiggle my many trips and travels around a day job, I did my share of travel planning and organizing, believe me.

After countless trips - long and short - I was really surprised when I read the other day a lady asking on Social Media for help where to begin planning her trip.

So I was analyzing and structuring what I've been doing without much overthinking for years and I put it in words and in chronological chapters so that everyone who is a newbie to travel planning can design the trip of their lifetime without the help of any of these big, costly companies.

So let's do this and start right away!

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pack light and travel easy: my guidelines and tips

Yes, I wrote about this topic already a couple of weeks ago. But this time it's more complex since although I'll travel with carryon sized luggage, I will check it.

Dresses make every lady-traveller so....dressy.

This gives me more freedom of what to pack, however, it doesn't increase the space.

Let me give you some guidelines and tips on you how to pack light and travel easy - without becoming some sort of bindlestiff.

pack light and travel easy: my guidelines and tips

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travelling in style - with hand luggage only

(Update January 2019)

End of this month, I'm going for three weeks to Sri Lanka; and this time, I'll finally try out travelling with hand luggage only.
Travelling light - yet in style.

Does this picture look familiar to you?
Wearing my favorite travel dress at the Singapore Art Museum, becoming one with the art.
(Photo: Mimi Green)

Actually, it won't be the first time that I'm leaving my kitchen sink at home: I've been travelling to several European countries with just one carry-on in tow - and not only because my cheapie-cheap flights did not include checking baggage. It seemed also more comfortable and manageable; after all, at some places, I spent only one night.

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travelling all bye:myself - five PROs and CONs

(Last Update July 2018)

When I've started my blog a bit over a year ago, it was mainly because I got asked so often about my solo travelling that I decided to share my experience not only with my friends but with everyone who might get inspired, informed, and benefit from it.

This picture was just too congruent to illustrate solo travel - you do not always walk alone!

Since then, I've been reading so many posts on solo travel, on how to do it, on where to go, on what to consider.
Over the past decades travelling solo, I've never noticed that hitting the road solo is such a complicated process with so many aspects to consider.
I picked a destination, I packed my bag, and off I went.
What a daredevil I seemed to be.

The other day, someone even contacted me since they want to 'raise awareness' for solo travel.
Raising awareness for solo travel - wow.
Has it really come to that? Is solo travel a disease? Are there awareness walks (which would nicely match with the cause 'travelling')?
Are you given sea blue awareness ribbons to stick to the lapel of your explorer vest?
Or is it just a disability, so you better travel to countries accessible for the impaired?

To me, solo travel was nothing more than buying a ticket for one.


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World's Most Complete Travel Information

One of the main reasons I started to blog was informing and helping others. I've been travelling for many years now and therefore had to face difficult situations and resolve minor and major problems. What really helps my travels going smoothly is my passion - yes: passion! - for planning and organizing.

While my first trips were still organized with the help of books, brochures, info material from tourist boards, and a generous share of luck, in the times of this new thing called internet that everybody is talking about, it became much easier - but also much less exciting.

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Paris Airport Charles de Gaulle: Instant Lounge, Instant Leisure

I didn't know anybody who was excitedly looking forward to a stopover in Paris - notably at Charles de Gaulle airport.

Soyez bienvenus at the - free! - transfer lounge of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
It's not only comfy and cozy, it's most of all hyper classy!
(Photo: Gwen Le Bras / Aéroports de Paris SA)

Well, this changed dramatically, and I'm here to show you what you are missing out on when you choose not to stop there.

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a few words about learning a few words

Considering that at least in Germany babbel.com is advertising a lot, to my surprise I don't know anybody actually learning with this online tool.

A pictogram might be the last resort when you are unfamiliar with a language; but to get to know a country and its people, you should rather use words - their words.

Anybody but me that is. And I will tell you why I love using it.

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How to Plan a Trip from Scratch

(Updated May 2019)

Although I'm not a Digital Nomad and do jiggle my many trips and travels around a day job, I did my share of travel planning and organizing, believe me.

After countless trips - long and short - I was really surprised when I read the other day a lady asking on Social Media for help where to begin planning her trip.

So I was analyzing and structuring what I've been doing without much overthinking for years and I put it in words and in chronological chapters so that everyone who is a newbie to travel planning can design the trip of their lifetime without the help of any of these big, costly companies.

And once you've done it for one destination, it will be a piece of cake doing it for the next one. And the next. And the next. Because, actually, life is long enough for more than just the one trip of a lifetime.

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