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ethical travel, niche destination tips, and unpacking the complicated realities of modern tourism ✨🌱
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everywhere i'd take you in prague (opens the original)
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The time has finally come for me to spill all my local Prague secrets. My credentials? I’m Czech, and I’ve lived here for 12 years now, meaning Prague saw my broke student years, my party girl escapades, my first adult money era, my “hoping he won’t ask to split the bill because I can’t afford this place” times, as well as my current more stable reality. I say that to say this—I have a recommendation for pretty much anyone.Subscribe now<div class=
niche bucketlist #15 (opens the original)
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Welcome to the niche bucketlist! This series started as me exploring obscure destinations I’ve been obsessed with and taking you along for the research, but over time it evolved into a collaborative project. We’re open for submissions! If you’d like to suggest a cool niche destination or contribute an entry as a guest writer, send me a DM or an email!The goal here is, as always, to learn about lesser-known yet fascinating places around the world and plan out realistic ways to visit them.<a class
WHAT ABOUT PRAGUE?! (opens the original)
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If you know me (or if you’re a reader of this newsletter), you probably know that I’m very much interested in topics of overtourism, gentrification, enshittification of cities, migration, and all things related. I see a news article, an essay, a video about any of the above, and it’s an automatic click from me in anticipation of potentially seeing a fresh take or learning something new. Sometimes I do.Deep down, however, I have another secret objective. I’m crossing my fingers behind my back, ho
what is travel good for, actually (opens the original)
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Travel won’t heal you, wherever you go there you are, openmindedness is not served between drinks and meals on an airplane, and overtourism BAD. We all know that by now, don’t we?Writing about “this thing you were made to believe about travel is bullshit” is pretty much my whole schtick. My platform was always intended to be an outlet for everything I saw wrong with modern tourism and travel culture, so it’s only natural that I’m gravitating towards talking about the negative: deinfluencing, der
august unpacked (opens the original)
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Hi and welcome to the monthly unpacked digest. If you’re here, it means that you are likely a paid subscriber of this newsletter, so thank you! Your support is what keeps this publication going and improving.Unpacked monthly is a space to get a bit more personal, something I rarely do in my writing otherwise. I’ll also share destination highlights with my recommendations, and include reading, listening, and watching tips & anything else I found interesting any given month.This is a new series, a
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