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Going 2 Travel to Florida

Goin2travel.com is a worldwide vacation rental website where owners and managers list their properties, and travelers can directly book these resources with them.

If you travel as a group to a fixed destination for an extended time, staying at a vacation home might be the best option in term of money and comfort. Vacation rentals have almost the same luxury as hotels. Prices are expensive if you travel solo or as a couple, but with at least 4 people, you probably end up paying around 20 dollars a night (tax and surcharges not included).

For example, let say you and your friends travel to Florida. Staying in this Disney retreat in Orlando will cost 99 dollars a day. There are 3 bed rooms total which can accommodate up to 6 guests. Therefore each pays only 17 dollars/night. Not bad!  Or if you and two other friends visit Miami Beach for a month, staying at a luxury Apartment Jr. Suite will cost 1800/month.

Check out for more details and properties in Orlando, Miami Beach and the rest of Florida vacation rentals.

Travel Check List

I’ve been back from my hiking trip to the Banat region in Romania. Will post more about this trip after I do more research and collect my thoughts.

As usual, I had a lot of trouble deciding what to pack and how to fit them in my backpacks. To save me time and headache in future trips, I put together a travel check list using a ConceptDraw Mindmap software, a great tool for brainstorming and organizing ideas.

I hope you will find the list useful, and I will update it as my travel experience grow.

View or download the travel check list here.

Spain for Some Ketchup Anyone?

Do you know that a few years ago, one of the most popular hit in Europe is a song named “Asereje” or “The Ketchup Song?” The pop, feet-moving tune started a chain of sensation in many part in Europe and spread to South America. The main forces behind this hit are three spunky gals from Spain. 

Despite being  one of the first European countries I wanted to see, I never set my foot on Spain after three years traveling to quite a few places in this continent. Especially now that I develop a western-europe-who-care attitude, the prospect of my coming to Spain is slimmer than ever. Perhaps I should change my mind soon as Spain satisfies my life goals: improve my pitiful Spanish and experience the passion of life in Mediterranean. After all, my childhood favorite football club was Barcelona when Ronald Koeman, the Dutch footballer, played there. Though there are more places to explore in Spain, I am going to sick to Madrid and Barcelona as I know some people there and cross my fingers hoping that they will show me the city.

Buses and trains are popular transportation from Barcelona to Madrid, but flights are also available and lasts less than an hour and 30 minutes.

Ticket prices range from 94 euros to 320 euros return plus a service charge. You can find hotels in Barcelona for as low as 19 EUR and Madrid for a petty 25 EUR.

Spanish version: Hotels en Barcelona


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Central Europe Capitals

Three weeks ago, I became a legitimate resident of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Beside its Slavic root, Germanic influence has played an important roles in shaping the Czech identity.

Berlin and Vienna, the historical and modern capitals of Czech’s two Germanic neighbors, Germany and Austria are only 5 to 6 hours drive and 2-hour fly from Prague. When you connect Berlin, Prague and Vienna, you will end up with a straight line with Prague as the midpoint. (See [pix])

I visited Vienna three times but never really “saw” the city since in all three occasions I ended up wandering about at Sud Banhoff where I got hit on by an Egyptian masseur and an Austrian station employee who offered me free massage and beer.

I’ve never set foot in Berlin but soon I will for I have a strange fascination by historical Eastern European events and sites. The collapse of the symbolic Berlin Wall inspired world-famous German rock band Scorpions to write their classic hit  “Winds of Change,” a song I I used to play non-stop during my childhood.

Traveling among Vienna, Berlin and Prague are easy. International and domestic buses,
trains and flights are affordable–sometime very cheap. Budget Airlines covering these three countries are Germanwings, SkyEurope and Air Berlin. Lufthansa and Austrian airlines are worth a check; they are major airlines and cost more than smaller air carriers, but if you book in advance, you might find decent deals.

You can sweat over many thing but don’t burden yourself with the thought of being a
homeless in these three major capitals. If you book ahead, you can find a hostel bed for as low as 10 EUR. Visit hotels in Berlin for more detail. Vienna hostels charge about the same prices; however, if you desire the comfort in a 3-star hotels in Vienna, you can get one for as low as 39 EUR.

German versions of this website: hotels in Berlin and hotels in Vienna.

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