Travel Tips

Car Rentals

Highlight Here we describe how we book rental cars to save money, describe our experience with different rental car companies from different parts of the world and one bad experience with a European car rental company.  Description Before we started traveling full time, we were always anxious when booking a rental car.  Our anxiety stems …

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Car Navigation

Summary This blog describes our experience and how we end up using Google Maps and Maps.me for car navigation while driving in Austria, Italy and Spain in 2021. Navigation Options First time we drove in Europe was in 2019. Our leased car came with an in-dash global positioning system (GPS).  It said so in the …

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Lease Vs Rent

Summary This blog describes our experience between leasing and renting a car while driving in Western Europe.  We leased a vehicle for just over a month in 2019 while we were in Geneva, Switzerland.  We drove the vehicle mainly through Switzerland, Germany and a little bit of northern Italy and France.  We rented three separate …

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