Practical

While preparing for the trip, we read tons of practical articles on packing for a long journey. Every one of them presented a different idea of what a properly packed backback should look like. Our list of things to take takes into account the specifics of the trip - hitchhiking, frequent sleeping in a tent, running a blog on the go, and no specific return date.

Lots of people dream to visit Rio de Janeiro during the carnival. We already have this amazing experience behind us, so we can share several first-hand thoughts and tips!

Brazil is the 42nd country where we tried hitchhiking. Three weeks is definitely not enough to see such a huge, diverse country, so we limited ourselves to the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Paraná. The report from our hitchhiking experiences applies only to this area.

Because of the fact that this was our first long distance trail, we could undoubtedly have done many things much better. Nevertheless, we managed to complete the Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne (HRP) running through the entire range without hurting ourselves. This post can be treated as tips for other hikers, but also as answers to the most frequently asked questions.

We reached this edge of Europe for the first time in 2020, and taking into account the negative experiences of hitchhiking in Spain and the coronavirus lurking in the background, we didn’t have much hope of reaching our destination fast. Nevertheless, we took up the challenge and it went much better than we expected. If you want to find out how hitchhiking works in Portugal (at least from our experience), read on.

Despite my interest in geography, until recently I couldn’t name any other Portuguese city than Lisbon and Porto. However, after researching a bit, I came across Aveiro. It’s not a very big city (less than 100,000 inhabitants), but there’s definitely a lot to see there.

Porto is a city that, on the one hand, looks better on pictures than in reality, but on the other - it gains character when you get to know it better. We decided not to go crazy and limited the visit to one day, and after leaving, we felt pretty satisfied. In this post you’ll find a quite biased list of Porto’s worthwhile attractions, sprinkled with comments and our impressions.

One of the other places we saw during our visit to Portugal was the southern Algarve region. What’s there to see in this eye-catching place? Which places did we like the most? Today we’ll answer these and many other questions.

According to us and many other travelers, Gdańsk is one of the most interesting cities in Poland. There are probably tons of materials on the main attractions and suggestions for sightseeing routes, which is why we will simply focus on a place that you will not find on the first pages of guides, but we liked it very much. Let’s travel to the Zaspa district.

Over the last decade, several truly unique historical museums have been established in Poland, ones that you visit not so much by viewing the exhibits in display cases, but by participating in a kind of story. The European Solidarity Center, which we recently visited, belongs to this type of facility.