Don't buy a sofa. Travel.

As it is with everything else in life, when planning a trip, you must start from the very beginning. However, in the following case, the beginning isn’t always coming up with a destination. Of course, that is also an option but then you will be limiting yourself to only one thing. What I would recommend is to always have something in mind but to also give yourself the chance to explore other possibilities. Thailand So, everything begins with looking for a plane ticket. Naturally, there are the well-known sites like Skyscanner . Or the different airline websites where you can look for promotions and sales. Tip № 1 would be, if you’ve chosen a destination and you’re periodically looking at the websites, to start checking them from different browsers or search engines where you haven’t agreed to the cookies policy. You can subscribe to those engines and receive personalised notifications. There are also websites like Fly4free and Holidaypirates that follow and filte...

As most of my friends know, my mom takes me on some pretty wild trips that she actually manages to plan all by herself. For example, here’s me casually posing with a shark in the Dominican Republic. Cool, right? Unfortunately, every plane ticket that she buys pulls my family further away from investing money in something that we really need – a new sofa. We moved into our new flat ten years ago. Everything was new and shiny, except for the sofa we brought from the old flat. It’s old, squeaky and worn out. I don’t envy anyone who comes to visit and decides to stay the night, as they have to sleep on it. And the back pain the next morning... oh, the back pain. I asked my mom once why we never got to saving up for a new sofa. She looked at me like I was crazy “And what? Miss going to Thailand?” (here’s her and my dad in Thailand) This blog is for those of you who have been saving for a phone, a computer, even a car. For those of you who've always had th...