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Just another night in Nantes
I was arriving in Nantes quite late by Blablacar and was supposed to meet Carolina at the train station. For whatever reason, I was dumb enough to ask to be dropped off on the opposite side of the station, where I’d end up running nearly a mile in the wrong direction before turning back around,…
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Mach schnell!
At 11am, April 2, 2015, Geoffroy picked me up in his Toyota something or other. Geoffroy is a member of Blablacar– a ride share website where people can look up routes and pay whatever the driver asks for a ride and is generally quite cheap, with personal references driving the trust component. In the back…
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Self-reliance, and lack thereof
On various travel websites, you’ll often hear that traveling without a plan is the best way to travel. But you often won’t know if it’s the best way for you until after you’re done traveling. For me, traveling without a plan is incredibly stressful, but doing so has led to some of the most rewarding…
