I love my cultural travel to be meaningful, memorable, fun and stress-free. I like my trips to bring me new experiences and enlighten me with new intriguing and amazing knowledge.

I achieve this is by planning with a lot of detail ahead of time. I follow a seven step method that I created and that I’m working on sharing with you in an up-coming e-course. So watch out for that!

One of the steps of the method is to actually decide the attractions you want to see when visiting a specific city, the things that you can’t miss out, the things you’ve always wanted to see, things that nobody talks about but are actually hidden gems and everything in between.

Back in 2007 I discovered an excellent tool to help you do just that.

Schmap is so much more than a website. It’s a comprehensive service covering local businesses and events so that you know what’s going on in the local scene, but in my opinion, the  best of their services is their city guides.

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So let me tell you the story of the time I went against my very nerdy principles and decided to wing my cultural travel.

Can you imagine having had the most amazing vacation, bags full of gifts for your friends and family, having run through the streets of Paris at 5 am in the morning, to catch the plane back home… except…

From the moment we met, my fiancee and I had wanted to travel to Europe. He’d been there several time getting  his doctorate degree, so he wanted to show me around and I was dying to see the Old Continent.

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One of the things I love about Rome is that it is filled with secret little treasures that you can discover wandering about. Basilica di San Clemente is a church in Rome with two hidden secrets underneath.

Go down a flight of stairs and find another Christian basilica from the 4^th century, marvel at the wonderfully preserved frescoes and then, go down another flight of stairs to find a wealthy man’s house from the 1^st century.

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Have I ever told you I love to travel? Mmmm, maybe I have. The not so fun part about traveling for me, is the airports or bus terminals. So why not try to make things easier learning how to dress to be more comfortable and relaxed?

You know the drill, at airports you have to wait standing in line for long periods of time, or seat in not so comfortable seats, you are wheeling around luggage and getting stuff in and out of suitcases, always paying attention to what’s going on around you, so that you don’t lose a bag or miss a plane, right?
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could know the top sites that will help you plan a trip? A one-stop, all-in-one-place that will list them for you?

Along the years since I’ve been traveling, I see myself going back to some key websites that I always use in combination, to plan my trips and the best of all is that they’re free! Let me share my online travel essentials.
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