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Travel Resources

InterRail: The InterRail Pass is the fun and budget-friendly way to discover Europe by train.
Eurail: Eurail passes let you experience the best of Europe. Comfortable trains take you straight to the city centers.


Independent Travel Blogs We Like

Around The World: After six years teaching English in Boston Public Schools, Lillie is now traveling the world to rock it out and write spicy, informative, photo-filled blog articles!
Mallory On Travel: Making every day an adventure!
TheFlyingFugu.com: a quirky food blog for eating obsessed travelers - daring delicacies, bizarre restaurants, food porn and expert foodie tips.
Muza-Chan: Passionate about Japan, travel and photography; Writing about Japan travel.
Man vs World: Travel blog chronicling the amazing adventures of a Kiwi backpacking through Southeast Asia and the world.
Travelistic: UK based travel blog offering a wide range of travel tips, guides and stories from around the world.
Charcotrip: Blog de viajes, relatos y experiencias vividas en texto y fotografías...
Travelwkly is blog covering traveling destination around the world
Darn Good Digs: An online guide to the world's best independently owned hotels, bed and breakfasts, and hostels for budget-minded travelers.
Escape The Shell: One man's honest reflections on a lifelong attempt to escape.
Pau Travels: A compilation of travels and adventures of Pau around the world from Asia, the US and Europe.
A and B C the World is a little travel/lifestyle blog about big plans on travel, photography, inspirations, a little food, and a lot of getting lost on purpose.
Everything-Everywhere: Gary has been traveling and blogging since 2007. A pioneer!
Ordinary Traveler: A couple in their early thirties who love to travel
Gibbering Madness: A guy with a strange life.
BagpackTraveller: If a picture does indeed speak a thousand words, then Daniel Murillo Mir’s and Ingrid Molano's photojournalistic site speaks volumes
GQ trippin  A twenty-something couple living conventional lives with unconventional dreams. See, eat & trip with Gerard & Kieu as they embark on their RTW trip!
Globo Treks: a place where you will find travel tips, advice, destination reviews, pictures, and much more…
Cultural Travel with Hole In The Donut: Discovering the world one culture at a time
Australia Rocky Travel Guide: An insider's travel guide about independent travel in Australia.
No Onions Extra Pickles: Traveling the world, looking at and studying beautiful objects, embracing different cultures, mastering foreign languages…the world of an art historian.
Bohemian Trails: Run by Megan Eileen McDonough and covers global art, culture and off-the-beaten path destinations for the backpack traveler and the bohemian at heart.
The Bucket List: savvy travel in Ecuador
Two Go Round-The-World: preserves the observations of Kathryn and Daniel as they plan, prepare and pack for a year-long RTW trip.
BookingAdvisor: official blog and travelers guide
A Pair of Panties and Boxers Monica’s blog about her travels through the world and travels through life. Either way she travel, it’s food for her soul. She’s always hungry.
Travel Enlightenment Long Term Travel within the Dynamic Moment
Holes in My Soles A shoemaker's travels around this world and within the Id.
Mucha Costa Rica: We are a Costa Rica focused info and travel site run by real people who live in and LOVE Costa Rica.
A Dangerous Business It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and, if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no telling where you might be swept off to.
Aaron & Georgie Happytime! Ever wondered what it’s like to sell it all and go travel the world? That’s just what Aaron & Georgie did…
Blue, Green and Everything in Between Kyle B. Sasaoka’s ‘Blue, Green and Everything in Between” wherein he share his love of foreign languages and travel.
Gap Year Escape is written by Amar Hussain. He is a freelance writer with a keen interest in photography, history, writing, philanthropy and most importantly, travel. He wonders how you can know your place in the world if you’ve not seen it?
Heather on her travels Travel inspiration and destination information with travel tales, photos, videos and podcasts from around the world
Enjoy Wroclaw Wroclaw is one of the most magnificent cities in Poland with an amazing Market Square, beautiful architecture and unique restaurants, pubs and clubs. People who live here will make your visit unforgetable. You can find best local tips for tourists on this blog."
Travelling Dad: A traveling dad with a start up family travel company focussing on all the great aspects of family travel.
My Several Worlds: Destinations, Lifestyles, and Cultures in Asia
Best Beaches in Asia - Ideas for Beach Vacations
Lay Your Head Here - Accommodations rated by travelers for travelers
Jason's Travel Blog Join Jason as he blog about… well, travel!
Maiden Voyage Emily a 20-something travel junkie who currently live in Austin, Texas. Her site includes tips and advice, destination highlights, reviews, interviews, and more.
Migrationology World wanderer, professional spicy food connoisseur, and skilled relaxer. Mark Wiens loves to travel, hike and eat…and do it in the most relaxing way possible.
Olio di Oliva e Sogni di Vino Passion for italy, language and wine! travel writer, Florenceophile, photographer and EU citizen!
Our New Office Dedicated to the “working while traveling” lifestyle. The authors of the site, Sara and Jason, will share stories from their personal lives, tips for working on the road, traveling insights, and reviews!
Pulpology Mark & Sonia's intercontinental absurdities There’s never really an ideal time to break out of the orbit you’ve been working your whole life to establish, but there’s also no time like the present.
Runaway Jane Jane travels as a full-time occupation. She documents her journey as a creative outlet and also to connect with other travelers, backpackers and anyone who has been bitten by the travel bug.
Suzy Guese Suzy’s found travel to be a string of stories. Well, here’s her string. SuzyGuese.com showcases people and places from around the world not in the ordinary, travel guidebook sense. I am fascinated by the simple way a story can be told
Across and Abroad Your Ultimate Online Travel & Adventure Magazine
The Travel Tart A travel addict. Travel Tart spends his time trying to figure out new ways to feed his travel addiction. He also writes about the funny, weird and offbeat things about travel.
Travel & Living Bliss Never happier than traveling around the world and meeting people and friends—while sharing journeys and joyousness!
Travel Advice Europe: Travel Advice Europe is written and edited by Amar. He is a freelance writer with a keen interest in photography, history, writing, philanthropy and most importantly, travel.
Travel Wonders of the World Mark is a keen traveller. In fact, over the last 25 years, he’s travelled to every continent and over 80 countries. This blog is about the most memorable destinations!
The Vagabond Adventures Lucie & Lachlan are on an epic African overland adventure by 4×4, together with their faithful hound, Bow Wow. They are acting as ambassadors for the charity called, Back to Africa, which relocates rare & endangered African species from zoological institutions worldwide “back to Africa”.
Campervan Trip Travel articles and ideas for campervan trips around the world.
2 Nomads. 1 Narrative Two nomads = One American + One Welshman. One narrative = this blog! We left our homes in May 2009 with a one way ticket to Bangkok.
Backpacking Chica: Follow Kim Reuter as she travels and works her way around the world.
Backpacking Matt: Offering advice and inspiration for the budget conscious traveler or backpacker
Backpacking Worldwide: Matt is a recent college graduate who will be spending the next few years traveling the world on a budget and telling the world all about it. Join him for stories and photos from abroad.
Bacon Is Magic: Ayngelina left her career, apartment, boyfriend and friends to travel solo. You can read about her adventures as she eats her way through Central America, South America and beyond.
Bike and Boots: Brian is combing his love of travel and motorcycles to ride around the world beginning with the Americas.
Border Jumpers: A couple travels to nearly every country in Africa looking for African-led projects that offer examples of hope and success in the fight against poverty and hunger.
Dave's Photo & Travelblogue: Dave is a writer, photographer, and blogger who takes pictures of everything he sees. Including YOU!
First-Time Travels Shares her first-time travel experiences to encourage new travelers to venture to places they've never been before.
Travel Blog Advice What You Need To Know About Travel Blogging
Fox Nomad Anil Polat travels the world and shares all he's learned to help you travel smarter.
Two Backpackers Aracely & Jason travel the world sharing their experiences through HD Travel Videos, HD Travel Photos and Travel Tips.
Tech Guide For Travel The Geeky Side of Backpacking
How To Travel With Pets For Travelers With Dogs, Cats, and Other Pets
Global Grasshopper Travel Tips and Inspiration
Around The World On A Toilet Lianna had left behind her career as a Travel Agent and Nick left his job as a Paramedic in Northern Ontario to backpack the greater part of the Asian continent before moving onto the next stage in life.
Finding the Universe: On the road since '09, Laurence shares his stories of his ongoing travels and thoughts on life.
Eastside Curry Travel Blog
Go With The Ebb An avid foodie and traveler
Lifecruiser Travel Blog
Le Monde Thoughts, anecdotes, tips, videos, news, reviews and personal experiences of an Indian woman backpacker and is accompanied with abundant of photographs that get captured during this sweet & sour experiences ongoing journey.
Nateniale Reflections on travels - be it short trips around South East Asia or longer trips elsewhere.
No Planes Woah, you want to know what this is about, when I haven't figured it out yet?
Be On The Road Travel Blog and Photography Site of Sankara Subramanian
Our Mad World We set out to explore the world for a year with completely open minds about what we might want to do for work when we came back.
Pause the Moment Traveling the world with no set date of return!
Reflections Enroute Jim and I are an American married couple who have had the opportunity to live all over the world thanks to our work.
Round We Go Avid travelers and cultural enthusiasts. Accents and foreign languages intrigue us. Exotic foods delight us. And what others do differently perplexes and amazes us.
Surrounded by the Sound Follow the stories of two newbie travelers as they make their way around the world
Teaching Expat An American Expat living overseas in South Korea teaching English to elementary students.
Travel Calling An Italian journalist specialising in travel writing.
Travel Feeder Your ultimate travel photography blog
The Traveling Giraffe A single woman always looking for a new travel adventure.
Weekend Haven Discover the Best Weekend Getaway in Asia & Beyond | A Backpacking Guide to Budget Travels | Philippines Beaches
The yellow brick road trip One girl from Kansas on adventures to see the unique, interesting and just plain weird roadside attractions of the Midwest.
Where Is Deniss? A travel website for your motivation, which contains travel, photo, hitch-hiking, backpacking and personal stories; travel information, advice, and tips.
Be a travel bee Joya Anthony at Be a Travel Bee gets you excited about things to do and see around Europe and in the States whether you are traveling by yourself or with friends.
East Africa Safari Destinations East African travel offers one of the best lifetime experiences for the adventure traveller.
Brazil Travel Blog An independent travel blog with information on Brazil
Go Mexico Guide: A young and vibrant online magazine combining the best of travel blogging and destination guides to provide the most comprehensive and destination specific travel information for visitors to Mexico.
The Travel Tweeter The Travel Tweeter lives most of the time in Southwest Florida, but frequently travels and  takes residence in places all over the world. In addition to this blog, she writes and blogs about her local region.
She's in love with the world One 20-something's quest to fall as deeply in love with the world as possible. Most recently, Sarah backpacked through Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Walking the Bay Walking the Bay documents one woman's 1,000 mile walk around San Francisco Bay, from the vantage point of the Bay Trail. This beautiful, free resource is open to Bay Area residents and visitors, and offers a range of options and terrain for walkers, runners, bicyclists, or anyone interested in new adventures.
Scene by Laurie Laurie's passions are New York City and traveling. Her quest is to experience and share unique, lesser known spots favored by locals and coveted by visitors - both in New York and around the world.
Adventure Bimbling: Informative articles and travel guides for south east Asia and beyond.
Trail of Ants: Ant travels the world and gives us useful tips in a funny manner.
Budget Travelers Sandbox Priceless independent travel advice on a budget—from Nancie!
Other guys dime The goal of my blog is to show professionals with marketable skills how to live and work overseas without having to reach into their wallet and without ever having to give up their "regular" job.
Ciao Bambino: Ciao Bambino provides tips and advice around all things related to traveling with kids and is a guide to the best kid friendly hotels.
Canada's Adventure Couple Dave and Deb are a travel couple that roam the world in search of the ultimate adventure.
CG Travels A twenty-something native Californian with an art history degree and love of adventure—check out her blog of travels and expeditions—full of reviews, tips, advice and observations.
LLWorldTour Coming to you since 2006 - Follow the travels, tips, and tales of Emmy award winning TV Producer/Photographer/Vagabond, Lisa Lubin, as she schleps around the world making friends, stuffing her face, and laughing a whole lot.
Maitravelsite A 30 something year old guy who was born in Chicago, raised in Spain and has lived in Belgium and Australia as well on the road
Dave's Travel Corner Seeing the world one step at a time. Welcome. Explore – Learn – Travel. Founded 1996, Dave's Travel Corner is a travel community with travel articles, photos, links, classifieds, message boards & much more. California, USA & International destinations
Traveling SavageWriter. Traveler. Explorer. Keith is going round the world one month at a time with a focus on experiential travel all while balancing a wife and house in the burbs.
Go Backpacking Your online guide to independent travel.
Green Traveler Guides: We're all over the world's best green travel. Trust us, we won't guide you
anywhere we haven't been.
Flipnomad A compilation of my travel experiences around the Philippines and as well as other countries.
Nomadic Notes Travel blog by James Clark, a location independent web designer, writer and photographer.
Tourist2townie One man's epic adventure of trying to go from Tourist to Townie in South America
Travels of Adam round-the-world, graphic design travel blog
Inside the Travel Lab Exploring Meaningful Travel
A Crafty Traveler: A Canadian girl goes to school in Australia, meets an Irish lad in Melbourne and they move together to England. This is the life of A Crafty Traveler.
Britainoutdoors: Helping people get the most of the British Outdoors
Aspiring Backpacker Aspiring backpacker is a travel blog for first time traveler or people who are dreaming about hitting the road. All you need to do is read up and set off!