Archive for the ‘Travel Videos’ Category

New travel video search engine helps when planning a trip

July 24th, 2013 at 11:06 pm » Comments (0)

The founders of urbita.com (7 million users/month local info & travel platform), also launched a very promising and useful travel videos site: travideos.com. Despite it being so new it has already got an impressive number of visits: over 2 million unique visitors! I usually get contacted rather often with promoting emails of all kind of […]

Using the Big Mac Index to Navigate Currency Exchange

July 17th, 2013 at 12:19 pm » Comments (0)

As you travel internationally it can be difficult to know how far your money will really go. Even if you’ve checked the exchange rate before traveling, you may not know how much you can actually get for 5 pounds, euros, or krones—that’s because some currencies are under or overvalued, making goods either more or less […]

Europe Trip Preparations: Video Camera GoPro Hero 2

June 24th, 2012 at 9:01 pm » Comments (2)

Our trip preparations before our long Europe road trip of approximately 750 km this summer continues. Now we got a new video camera, an action video camera actually: a GoPro Hero 2 Outdoor Edition. Small, effective, practical and very outdoorsy. Photo taken with my iPhone, not very good but you get the picture – how […]