Caravanning Scotland’s Highlands and Islands
7 nights of caravan parks, free camping, hiking, scotch tasting, and dodging the rain Sometime before landing in London we hatched a plan to campervan though Scotland. While staying with our friends Sam and Peter in London, Matt did tons of research to find us an available camper. Most companies were totally booked for all of August. We were only booking about 2 weeks in advance, so this wasn’t exactly a surprise. Matt finally...
Practical Tips for Saving Money in Rome
Eating Eat breakfast at the counter if you are just getting pastries and coffee, you’ll save about 20%. We did this a couple times and it was a savings of about two or three euros per visit. Get yourself breakfast at the nearest supermarket: yogurt, muesli, orange juice, coffee, and fruit will cost you €10 for multiple days of brekkie. Get a pizza for lunch, by the slice or share a whole pizza. This costs just a few euros per...
How to Get a 30% Discount on GoPro Hero 4 Black
I bought a GoPro Hero 4 Black for $383 and three extra batteries for another $46 by purchasing discounted Zumiez gift cards. This is a pretty great shopping hack to get a massive discount. It will actually work for the Hero4 Silver and Hero3+ Silver as well. Discount gift cards are available all over the Internet, so I analyzed which retailers’ gift cards have the largest discount, and also carried GoPro gear. It turns out you...
Buying Your First House – A Guide Based on our Recent Adventure
Buying a house was daunting since I didn’t really know anything about it, so I’ll try to communicate some of the process here, in my longest blog post ever. Between getting pre-approval, to selecting an agent, visiting houses, choosing a lender, and getting through escrow, there’s a lot to learn. Before You Do Anything Figure out what kind of house you want, make lists, draw on a map where you’re willing to live, figure out how much...
The Butchart Gardens & Victoria
(note: this was in September and I’m only just now publishing it.) We spent a couple of hours at the Butchart and I’m pleased to be able to report to our many readers that after some hands-on research, this place is way overpriced. But if you need a nice place to take your special lady, you might want to shell out the (CAN) $29 it costs to get in. Oh, you didn’t bring a car? Then you’ll need to arrange your own...
How do taxi drivers make money?
Have you ever wondered how taxi drivers make money? Or how much money they make? We had a really talkative driver tonight who gave us the low down. There are two kinds of drivers: Owners and Renters. Renters have to rent a car from yellow cab or whatever. They don’t make as much as the owners from what I could tell. Owners buy a car. Our driver said that generally there is a middle man who goes to police auctions and buys...
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