Caught the travel bug! :D

Hey there, how are you doing? :)

I’ve just been browsing the Internet for some of the most beautiful places I could ever imagine – places anywhere in the world, from tiny cottages in the middle of the Scottish nowhere to booming cities like Tokio to the most stunning beaches on the Australian coast. Within seconds, I was assailed again by the desire to travel! For me, it doesn’t matter much where I’m going as long as I’m going at all, and I always find the time to. The only downside of traveling, as usual, is money.

But then again, I’ve got a solution for this problem, too: it’s airbnb!

The idea of airbnb is a pretty easy one and it’s summed up quite nicely in this short video (be careful, though, it’s an ad created by the organization itself and therefore not very impartial):

Have you heard of it before? It’s actually quite famous!

I’ve never tried it out personally, but a friend of mine has (she went to NYC for ten days and stayed with a host in Brooklyn; she was absolutely thrilled). Of course, there are some disadvantages about airbnb. Like, you never know for sure whether your host and their home really are the way they promise until you meet them for the first time. On the other hand, as mentioned in the ad, airbnb holds on to your payment until 24 hours after you have arrived at your host’s. If the place is different from what it promised, they will arrange an alternative for you.

I guess being open to any kind of new experience helps a lot with this kind of traveling. You shouldn’t be too shy about meeting others or be scared off just because something doesn’t work out exactly the way you planned it. Personally, when I was looking at those pictures today, I immediately knew: I caught the travel bug!

…oh and by the way, as everybody is desperately searching for Christmas present ideas: a trip (and an affordable one, too!) to Amsterdam or Paris or Prague or wherever might make a nice present, don’t you think? ;)