The travelling nerd

Unfortunately, when you are visiting the most popular places in each city you go to, there are many people out there that will try to fool you and scam you in some way. I’m telling you this because, unfortunately, I’ve suffered this myself in some places, and what better than my own experience to advise you so it does not happen anymore. The friendship bracelet/flowers scam: When you’re in a popular square or monument in each city, a stranger will approach you, gifting you a friendship bracelet. He will proceed to tie the bracelet around your arm really tight, and then proceed to ask you for money. While you try to untie the bracelet, a friend of him may also try to pickpocket you, so be really careful.  If you’re with your partner, he may gift you a flower as well, and then try to follow you asking for money. The photo scam: In monuments specially, you may find someone dressed up as a typical costume in the country. In my case, it was a roman in Rome. He may

Apart from Prague, there is another clear contender for a popular young travelling destination these last years. What traits does Prague share with this other city? Well, both cities have a large castle, both cities are crossed by a river, both have famous bridges, both use a coin that is not the Euro, both share gentle summers and extreme winters, and best of all, both cities are not very different in terms of prices. We're talking about Budapest, Hungary's capital. This city is somewhat bigger than Prague, having 400.000 more inhabitants. But overall we could say that these cities are very similar. I also visited this city during my interrail trip. And frankly, I was surprised when I arrived. My first thought when getting out of the station was: "Wow. This city is old." But not old like Prague. I personally compare it to the same feeling you get when you see a cooker that has a lot of years, but still works perfectly? That's what I felt whe

Technology is all around us. 20 years ago, we looked at mobile phones like weird artifacts that few people were able to own. And they weren't small or pretty or anything like that. The opposite in fact. This looked like black magic to us a few years ago. Nowadays, no one is free from these devices that we now call smartphones. We could not believe our eyes in 2007 when Steve Jobs presented to us a tiny device that was able to recieve and make calls, connect to the internet, play visually stunning games, plus music, all at the same time! I remember not long ago, seeing a kid that would probably be like 8 years old, handling an iPad that was bigger than his head, in a way that was beyond my comprehension (And I studied computer science, so you tell me...). What I am saying is that fortunately (or unfortunately, how you prefer to see it) everybody these days owns one of these smartphones. And this has some perks for us curious persons. Most of the