This page collects all the Travel Tips by Besides the Obvious. Bucket lists, culinary journeys, travel series, interviews, and a lot of useful content. If you have any further recommendations, on what else we should include in this section, don’t hesitate to reach out. These tips for traveling will help you save money and find a better …
How to save money on travel – 40 tips & tricks
In this article you will find a top 40 tips and tricks list about how to save money on travel by categories: planning, flying, accommodations, eating, transports and at your destination. Planning 1. Decide what you plan Not to have a plan could be the best plan. You can decide on that. But make a …
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Travel Trends 2021
In this article, we will speak about the ultimate travel trends 2021 of this pandemic time we face. Coronavirus has changed many things in our daily life. Speaking about travelling there are still and, there will be for a while, some limitations, restrictions and bans that may keep many travellers waiting for better occasions. It …
Our top 20 places in 2020 – how & to where we were able to travel during the year of Covid-19…
2020 was not the year of traveling. Neither for us. We, who usually take every occasion to travel, whose everyday life looks like continuously checking options, calendars, travel deals, flight schedules, we also found ourselves in a new reality. The old days were gone, when ever we had free time, we just went to explore, …
The first year in the life of a blog: Besides the Obvious
Besides the Obvious is today one year old. All started as a joke. Anna began to write alone and she was taking pictures randomly without revealing the real purpose. She finally published her first article on November 18, 2019. Exactly one year ago. Around one month later, at Christmas, she told me – as a …
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Naviera Armas goes bankrupt: bad news for travellers and locals
This is an article about the crisis of the passenger transport companies using the example of Naviera Armas, a famous Spanish ferry company. We have read on the journals this week that Naviera Armas, one of the giants of maritime transport, is going bankrupt. The rating agency Moody's has lowered its rating from Caa2 to …
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How to prepare the perfect backpack and don’t miss anything (important)
This is an article about how to prepare the backpack and not to forget anything you would need. First, mind that backpacking is synonym of adventure. The most enjoyable way to do that is without planning too much. To feel free on the go you must travel light. Less weight, more fun. Once we could …
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Where Joe Biden spent his honeymoon – Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton was mentioned related to where Joe Biden spent his honeymoon. As being Hungarian, always fills my heart with joy and pride when someone mentions my home country or when I can read some nice reviews from other travelers about their experiences in Hungary. Not to mention if they decide to visit Lake Balaton …
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Tips to rent cars and deal with Car Rental Companies
This is an article about tips to rent cars when travelling. Some people have asked us which company to choose to rent a car at any location. We have rented hundreds of cars in the last twenty years travelling around five continents. According to our experience, all car rental companies are same awful. The expensive …
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Travel after Covid-19
Changes are coming. They have always been coming. What we need to see now is the scope that these will have to travel after Covid-19, the future predictions that we can make with the data we have and the odds on our hands when planning next trips. You can read here more thoughts about the …
