✈️ Nomad diaries, note #2121

🗺️ 3 months, 6 countries, countless train rides — and a backpack full of lessons:

☑️ Books are heavy. Audible is fun.

☑️ Jeans weigh more than you think.

☑️ More undies (Aussie for underwear) = less stress over laundry.

☑️ Hair strainer is more effective than hair dryer - which exists in any hotel/airbnb.

☑️ You can buy whatever you need wherever you get to, so don’t stress about packing “everything I need”.

☑️ One pair of good walking shoes beats three “cute but blistery” pairs.

☑️ I’m a soft mattress kind of girl, 2 pillows minimum, 3 ideally.

☑️ Switzerland doesn’t have mosquitos so you can sleep with open windows

☑️ Google Maps’ “10 min walk” = 20 with luggage and cobblestones.

☑️ If the hotel says “city view,” it might mean “view of the neighboring building”

☑️ Traveling in the EU? Drop flights & annoying airports. Trains are more fun.

☑️ No ID/passport check on a train, no luggage weight limit.

☑️ Traveling with bitcoin is amazing.

☑️ Cities and merchants that accept bitcoin are more fun, and smarter.

☑️ Lightning payments works faster than most card machines (except in Lugano 😅)

☑️ “Do you take bitcoin?” is my new icebreaker in any language.

☑️ Bitcoin meetups abroad double as instant friendship machines.

☑️ Dual citizenship rocks.

💡What’s your best tip for travelling?

🛫 Looking forward to exploring 6 more countries in the next 3 months!

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🫡good stuff

No mosquitoes in Switzerland?! Sign me up

Perhaps I was at a good time of year?

Good list! Some of mine are:

-accept and embrace that things will sometimes not go according to plan

-use street smarts and common sense

-for more authentic/less tourist food, avoid places that have a person trying to corral you into them, have pictures on the menus, and have a separate English menu (though the last one isn't always a sure thing)

-force yourself outside your comfort zone as much as possible to have the best experiences and more growth

-don't make yourself a target by wearing flashy and expensive things, displaying wealth

-always know what time the metro stops in the city you're in. Coming from NYC where the subway is always running, it's something I sometimes forget about 😅

Agree also. Especially with own Bitcoin and look broke.

thankfully only 1/1000 would understand

Just returned from 3 countries in 1 month. Agree with your findings. Haven't tried the trains yet in EU. Rented small car and drove. Happy trails 👣 🫂

Rolling clothes over folding, more space efficiënt, less wrinkles

I found some mozzies in Lugano aka Switzerland 😂

💜 safe travels

Thx

I won’t deny being a tad envious Efrat. Safe travels.

Thx.. go for a journey if you have a calling.

Good list!💐💫

If you come to aus, my wife and I will take you for coffee👍

Cheers

I’ll be there next year at some point. But likely in VIC

Hope you enjoy. You are a really nice energy in the bitcoin space. Ill just keep listening👍

Thank you 🙏🏻

What do you mean with: ”Hair strainer is more effective than hair dryer ”?

Diddo.?

Sometimes women need both. Most hotels have dryers, so don’t bother to bring one. Have a straightener and you’re covered. It’s a girl’s thing 😉

Travel light, live free, and embrace spontaneity.

Very good lessons, Efrat! Thanks for sharing. Some funny ones as well, like the Google Maps one. 😅

😅🙌🏻