✈️ Nomad diaries, note #2121

🗺️ 3 months, 6 countries, countless train rides — and a backpack full of lessons:

☑️ Books are heavy. Audible is fun.
☑️ Jeans weigh more than you think.
☑️ More undies (Aussie for underwear) = less stress over laundry.
☑️ Hair strainer is more effective than hair dryer - which exists in any hotel/airbnb.
☑️ You can buy whatever you need wherever you get to, so don’t stress about packing “everything I need”.
☑️ One pair of good walking shoes beats three “cute but blistery” pairs.

☑️ I’m a soft mattress kind of girl, 2 pillows minimum, 3 ideally.
☑️ Switzerland doesn’t have mosquitos so you can sleep with open windows
☑️ Google Maps’ “10 min walk” = 20 with luggage and cobblestones.
☑️ If the hotel says “city view,” it might mean “view of the neighboring building”
☑️ Traveling in the EU? Drop flights & annoying airports. Trains are more fun.
☑️ No ID/passport check on a train, no luggage weight limit.

☑️ Traveling with bitcoin is amazing.
☑️ Cities and merchants that accept bitcoin are more fun, and smarter.
☑️ Lightning payments works faster than most card machines (except in Lugano 😅)
☑️ “Do you take bitcoin?” is my new icebreaker in any language.
☑️ Bitcoin meetups abroad double as instant friendship machines.
☑️ Dual citizenship rocks.

💡What’s your best tip for travelling?

🛫 Looking forward to exploring 6 more countries in the next 3 months!