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Best 5 Reasons to visit the Festes de Gracia in Barcelona

Festes de Gràcia, the other Barcelona - The Solivagant Soul

Visiting Barcelona in August can be a hellish or a wonderful experience. If you are not afraid of some humidity and lots of heat, you will love it. If you don’t, you will end up adapting and learning to double your water intake. Besides hoards of tourists visiting our beautiful city, there’s another very important event happening every summer in Barcelona: the Festes de Gracia. I will convince you today that, despite the heat, it is worth visiting this city during the summer. Here are the best 5 reasons to visit the Festes de Gracia in Barcelona. But before we…

The Best Guide to Visit Monteverde, Costa Rica

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Monteverde, Walking on clouds in Costa Rica - The Solivagant Soul

A few years back, I discovered what became my favourite country to date: Costa Rica. I was there with an organized trip, and even though I did not know that we were planning to visit Monteverde, I was pleasantly suprised: it was one of the most enjoyable stops of the trip! This national park has a name that literaly translates as the green mount. And the name couldn’t fit any better: in a small elevated area (hence the name monte), the most leafy forest I’ve ever seen (for the “verde” part). If you are planning to visit Monteverde, don’t be…

5 Most Unique and beautiful Palaces in Germany

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Find out the top five most amazing castles and palaces across Germany, from Neuschwanstein Castle to Augustusburg or the beautiful city of Potsdam near Berlin.

The first long trip I took alone was a train tour through the centre of Europe. My main goal was to visit as many palaces and castles as I could in Germany. For that purpose I borrowed a guide about castles from a friend and planned a circular itinerary starting in Prague and ending in Munich. Here you have the ultimate ranking of the most unique and beautiful palaces in Germany that I encountered through my trip. On fifth position, one of the most beautiful palaces in Germany: Augustusburg This palace, World Heritage by the UNESCO, is located in the…

4 tips to master eating alone in restaurants

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Eating Alone in Restaurants while traveling solo - The Solivagant Soul

Eating alone in restaurants is one of the toughest things everybody should get used to when travelling alone. Usually no one has any problems when buying a sandwich and eating it alone while walking. But when the deal’s about seating down and eating alone in restaurants, it’s usually more complicated. But don’t let it stop you! Tasting all the delicatessens from a new destination is one of the best parts of any trip I take. My first time eating alone in restaurants I may have been around 17yo when I went to Rome with my Highschool. We all had tickets…

Sailing Menorca: a cruise around the Balearic islans

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A sailboat trip is not for everybody - The Solivagant Soul

Back in 2012, I decided to try a different type of trip and checked myself in a sailboat trip to go from Barcelona to the Balearic Islands and there spend some time sailing Menorca. Initial doubts about sailing Menorca I had never met any of the other seven people that were going to share that small ship with me, so I was a bit concerned about being in such a close contact with complete strangers. Poor me. TBH, I ended up being quite happy with my fellow pirates. All of us were travelling “solo”, and there were some people with…

How to convince your family that you’ll be safe traveling alone

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How to convince your family that you will be safe traveling alone. Best tips to convince everybody that you will be fine and enjoying the time of your life. #traveltips #solotravel #travelalone #travellifestyle | The Solivagant Soul Travel Blog

Will you be safe traveling alone? Traveling alone for the first time can be daunting. Initially, you will worry about safety, loneliness and maybe about finding yourself in unexpected situations. Once you decide to take the step and book your trip though, you will most likely overcome all these feelings and just feel excited. The problem then will be another one, your family and friends will be feeling the same things. With one difference: they will not feel the excitement of leaving and they will mostly fear for you. If you are in this situation, here you have some tips…

Off the beaten path Budapest: The most typical and the most unique baths

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Off-the-beaten path Budapest Baths | Best Spas in Budapest Hungary | Guide to the Best Spas in Budapest | The solivagant Soul Travel Blog

Looking into the off the beaten path Budapest? Interested in finding the most unique baths in the city of Spa’s? Well, continue reading. A few years back, I decided to give myself an especial birthday present and I booked a ticket to Budapest. With the intention of only spending four days there, I wanted to visit some of the most typical sights, but also discover the off the beaten path Budapest. In the future, more dedicated posts about these hidden gems will be posted, but in this one, I will focus on some of the best things in Budapest: the…

Why Travel Solo ? And why you should consider it

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Why travel solo and best tips on how to travel alone | The Solivagant Soul | #SoloTravel #TravelTips #TRavelAlone #TravelLifestyle

Why travel solo? Should you even consider travel on your own? That is the question I want to answer for you today. Because traveling alone is something wonderful and I hope I can convince you with this post, to try it for yourself The first time traveling solo Like most people who try traveling solo for the first time, I decided travel on my own because I could not come to an agreement with my friends. I could take the last couple of weeks of July. They could only leave in August. I wanted to do a cultural trip. They…