traveling

Christmas is just around the corner—still stuck on what gift to get for your travel enthusiast friend or relative? Here are a few recommendations sure to please any travel-lover.

If there’s anything I learned from studying abroad last year, it’s that planning and preparing for any kind of travel is good, but ultimately, flexibility will be your best friend. The most notable time that my friends and I were taught this lesson was on a bitterly cold day in Munich, Germany. We had devised a strategy to catch a train to Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, later take a different train back to Munich, and then ride to Vienna that evening. Despite the chill, we were all excited for the day’s coming events.

From the back of the car, a tiny voice asks how long ’til you arrive at Grandma’s house. Six hours—six hours to go.