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An Oktoberfest Tour Guide’s Most Frequently Asked Oktoberfest Questions

January 26, 2019 By Ashley Smith Leave a Comment

An Oktoberfest Tour Guide’s Most Frequently Asked Oktoberfest Questions

This may come as news to you but, besides being a full time blogger, I also moonlight (September-light?) as a tour guide at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. It’s a REALLY TOUGH JOB that involves spending two whole weeks at Oktoberfest, drinking loads of delicious beer, dancing on benches, singing along with German songs I know […]

Filed Under: Featured, Germany Tagged With: munich, oktoberfest

How to Squeeze in a Day Trip to Salzburg from Munich

December 10, 2018 By Ashley Smith 2 Comments

How to Squeeze in a Day Trip to Salzburg from Munich

Salzburg, Austria is known for many things. Like… well, how about… okay, so maybe Salzburg is known for just one major thing: The Sound of Music. It’s where the movie was filmed; it’s where the movie takes place; and it’s where I went this year to escape Germany’s Oktoberfestivities for a day. You know what’s […]

Filed Under: Austria, Featured, Germany, Time Budget Travel, UNESCO World Heritage Sites Tagged With: munich, salzburg

The Best Travel Photography Gear for Time-Budget Travelers

July 10, 2017 By Ashley Smith 21 Comments

The Best Travel Photography Gear for Time-Budget Travelers

Updated: January 23rd, 2019 I’ve always been interested in photography and have a real desire to get better at it… but… I just don’t think it’s gonna work out. The more I learn about serious photography the more turned off I get. Learning about f-stops and EVF and ISO got me like OMFG, WTF, L8R. […]

Filed Under: Blog Life, Czech Republic, Featured, France, General Travel Tips, Germany, Luxembourg, New York, Packing + Gear, Time Budget Travel, United States Tagged With: photography

Ashley Gives Fashion Advice: How to Dress for Oktoberfest

April 12, 2017 By Ashley Smith 52 Comments

Ashley Gives Fashion Advice: How to Dress for Oktoberfest

Updated: January 26th, 2019 As you can imagine, having been to Oktoberfest in Munich and various other German festivals here and there, I get asked one particular question over and over and that is: “What is that on your face?” After explaining that I’ve been eating Nutella-filled crêpes with the voracity of a hungry lioness, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Germany, Packing + Gear Tagged With: munich, oktoberfest

How (NOT) To Tour Beer // Spaten Brewery

October 27, 2016 By Ashley Smith 32 Comments

How (NOT) To Tour Beer // Spaten Brewery

Updated: January 26th, 2019 Sometimes, especially if you’re a natural blonde like myself, you find yourself making dumb mistake after dumb mistake. I say dumb mistake because some mistakes are justified: thinking you can pull off bangs (Zooey Deschanel can; why can’t you!?); going over your credit card limit because JetBlue was having a two-for-one […]

Filed Under: Featured, Germany, How To Tour Beer Tagged With: beer, brewery, munich, tour

My Wanderlusty Oktoberfest Recap

October 20, 2016 By Ashley Smith 19 Comments

My Wanderlusty Oktoberfest Recap

Updated: January 26th, 2019 CURRENT MOOD: Post-Oktoberfest depression. ☹️ 🙅🏻 💩 Who do I need to talk to about getting an emoji of someone in sweatpants laid out on the floor with a continuous stream of the hit 90’s sitcom Frazier playing in the background? Asking for a friend… Okay, you got me. I returned from my recent Eurotrip two […]

Filed Under: Featured, Germany Tagged With: beer, munich, oktoberfest

Traveling to Germany? Read This, This, and That.

September 27, 2016 By Ashley Smith 4 Comments

Traveling to Germany? Read This, This, and That.

Hallo from Germany, ja! Wait, that sounds a bit more Swedish Chef than German, huh? Doesn’t matter, I’m in Prague at the moment anyway–coming to you with the culmination of three months of ignoring everyone around me. Just kidding, I love making small talk with strangers when I’m trying to research for a blog post. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Germany, Packing + Gear, WW2 Sites Tagged With: germany, ww2

Blog Life // MWL’s Funniest, Strangest, & Most Confusing Search Terms

May 4, 2016 By Ashley Smith 8 Comments

Blog Life // MWL’s Funniest, Strangest, & Most Confusing Search Terms

My blog is pretty popular in the Japanese poop fetish industry, if only by accident. Is this something I aspired to when I started this blog? ABSOLUTELY NOT. And yet here I am, disappointing internet users everywhere with my lack of toilet-cam footage. Allow me to explain… One (often unfortunate) feature of blogging is the ability to see exactly […]

Filed Under: Blog Life, Canada, Featured, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, United States Tagged With: travel blogging

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Nǐ hǎo, guten tag, hola, ciao! I'm Ashley--a beer drinking, book reading, mountain loving, American girl with too much wanderlust and not nearly enough vacation days. I'm a full-time worker and part-time world traveler on a mission to help you travel the world on a time budget.

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