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Spain Travel Tips: Trip Report from Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona
We share the highlights of our recent trip to Madrid, Seville and Barcelona, including our favorite tours, how we got around, where we stayed and what we'd do differently next time.
• Split our three weeks across Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona with a week in Portugal in between
• Had to adjust our original plans to visit northern Spain due to train strikes
• Chose apartments over hotels in Seville and Sitges (near Barcelona) for laundry facilities and flexible mealtimes
• Found Spanish metro systems intuitive and similar to London Underground
• Participated in multiple tapas tours with Devour, providing cultural context and authentic food experiences
• Experienced incredible authentic flamenco in Seville on a combined tapas and performance tour
• Took guided walking tours in Seville and Barcelona with Walks Tours, enjoyed wonderful guides sharing local history and insights
• Dealt with unusually rainy weather throughout much of our Spanish journey
• Discovered Sitges as a peaceful beachside alternative to staying in busy Barcelona
If you're considering visiting Spain in 2025, check out our detailed guides and tips on the website at globaltravelplanning.com to help plan your adventure.
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If Spain is a destination you can't wait to explore, this week's episode of the Global Travel Planning Podcast is for you. We're sharing the highlights of our recent trip to Madrid, seville and Barcelona, including our favourite tours, how we got around, where we stayed and what we'd do differently next time. Hi and welcome to the Global Travel Planning Podcast. I'm your host, tracey Collins, who, with my expert guests, will take you on a weekly journey to destinations around the globe, providing travel inspiration, itinerary ideas, practical tips and more to help you plan your next travel adventure. Hi, everybody, and welcome to episode 51 of the Global Travel Planning Podcast. This week, doug and I are here to talk all about our recent time in Spain, but we have again our lovely guest interviewer, melissa, who is our resident Aussie every month in the Brit, aussie and Yank episode that we have, which where we share general travel tips. So Melissa again has agreed to come on and do the interview, and as she did for the Morocco episode. So welcome, melissa. Thank you, tracy and Doug.
Speaker 2:Well, we're here to talk tonight about your trip to Spain, so how about we start with just a general overview about your trip? So how about we start with just a general overview about your trip Okay should.
Speaker 1:I start, you start Okay. So we literally spent three weeks in Spain, divided up, actually, by one week in Portugal, so we actually flew from Morocco. At the end of our trip from Morocco, we flew from Marrakech to Madrid, spent a couple of days in Madrid, then went down to Seville for 12 days before heading over to Portugal for a week and then flying over to Barcelona for seven days. So basically it was Madrid, seville and Barcelona that were for 21 days, that's right in total.
Speaker 3:yeah, we didn't actually stay in Barcelona itself, but I'll explain that later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So why did you decide and Spain's a big place, obviously why Madrid, seville and Barcelona? What drew you to those particular cities?
Speaker 3:Well, madrid, initially, because neither of us had been there, because we were in Morocco. When we were looking at options to get into Spain, we saw good deals on the flights from Marrakesh to Madrid, so it seemed to tick a few boxes at once, really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then after that we were trying to decide where else to go. So then we felt we want to do a train, a few train trips. Actually that was part of also what we want to do in spain, and neither of us had been to seville, so we decided to head down to seville. And then it kind of made sense to go into portugal, and our original plans were actually to go to northern Spain after Portugal. Where were we?
Speaker 3:going to go Well. I wanted to go from Porto in Portugal up to Santiago de Compostela to see basically the sights there, and then work our way around northern Spain to the Basque area and then down into Madrid.
Speaker 1:And then back to Barcelona and then down to Barcelona.
Speaker 3:That was the initial plan.
Speaker 1:And then back to.
Speaker 3:Barcelona and then down to Barcelona. That was the initial plan. Unfortunately, the Renfe well, the Spanish trains were going to be on strike, so it wasn't just one or two days, it was three or four days in a week.
Speaker 1:It was over a few weeks, it was just going to be impossible.
Speaker 3:We couldn't make any concrete plans. So we decided to buy the bulletin book a flight, but unfortunately, within an hour of booking the flight they called the strikes and we couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:It literally was one of those moments where we sat and went right, we have to make a decision now. Because it, because we were kind of booking things as we went, and so we had that flexibility when we were like that was, the plan was to go northern spain, but it was just not going to work because of the strike. So we just went no, we're just going to have to fly to Barcelona. And I'm not joking, I think it was 10 minutes after we booked the flight non-refundable flight they called off the strike and I think we just went okay, right, we'll just have to call it a day and we're going to go to Barcelona and that's what we're going to do. So we just kind of sometimes you have to just have that flexibility and go with it.
Speaker 3:I mean, anyone who knows me knows my love of trains, all things trains. So you can imagine my disappointment. And nothing against flying, but I'd rather be on a train.
Speaker 1:Well, I'd always rather be on a train as well, on a train rather than a plane, I should say rather than a plane, I should say. But anyway, so that's what we did. So it ended up being it kind of shortened our time that we wanted to spend in Spain, but it just means that we'll have to go back again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, basically.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. And what about, like, where did you stay in each city and how did you choose where you stayed?
Speaker 1:I think, Madrid. We just stayed in a hotel for a couple of nights. We flew in and just got a transfer and stayed in a hotel kind of in a central part of.
Speaker 3:Madrid yeah, not far from the palace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we knew we were going to do a couple of tours, so that was going to be the easiest place to stay. But Madrid was actually very short. We were only there for a couple of nights and then because we had quite a lot of things like washing to do and also, when you travel long term, you have to think about expense, and staying in hotels means that you have to pay out for food all the time in restaurants. So we decided that we'd book apartments so in seville. We actually were only going to go to seville for a week, but we really liked seville so we loved it anyway. We loved seville so much that we extended it by another five days, so we unfortunately the accommodation that we had, which was a huge apartment, uh, and it was a lovely part of seville as well. We had to move from that closer to the bus station, because we're actually catching a bus to um lisbon so we had to move accommodation.
Speaker 1:Then that was a part hotel and then in bar. We actually stayed south of the city. We stayed in a town called Sigis and again we had another apartment with a washing machine because, again, just trying to keep on top of things like washing and also we could have our own breakfast. Take things a little bit easier. You know, when you stay in a hotel hotels are lovely, but you have a certain time for breakfast, whereas you know if you're in your apartment, get up, you kind of do eat what you want, do what you want, but things like just the practicalities of keeping on top of washing things that's right and uh, some days because of the weather, there were work days as well, and we also looked at feedback on the strength, the quality of the wi-fi as well, which was a also a factor yeah, that was actually really important because we yeah, because, unfortunately well, I'm sure we'll get onto it we've not had the best weather and we have to work when we're on the road.
Speaker 1:It's not just we don't. We'd be lovely just to travel, but we have to work. So, recording podcasts and doing consults and writing articles, it has to be done. So, yeah, making sure we had good Wi-Fi in the apartments, it actually worked pretty well, to be honest, so we're able to do everything that we need to do. And, um, all the places were central. I say siges, we stayed in, which is south of barcelona. Um, it was somewhere that I'd never heard of it.
Speaker 3:Doug wanted to go there yes, it was a place, um, I visited frequently with my parents when I was very little and we went, you know consecutive number of years. So I was trying trying to work out, did I say sort of 30-odd years since I was last there. So it was a bit of a return to childhood, to a holiday location, which was really nice. To be honest with you, I remembered a few little bits and pieces, didn't I?
Speaker 1:I actually loved it, where the beach was, yeah, but I absolutely loved Sijas. It was actually nice not to be in Barcelona, which is crazy. Even this time of year it's crazy busy, so it is the most popular destination in Spain, yeah, and it just is crazy, crazy busy. So it was actually nice getting on the train and going out and going south and staying beside the beach.
Speaker 3:It was just lovely it was because the accommodation was close to the train station, close to a good supermarket as well, and it gave me an opportunity, every time I went into Barcelona, to experience the local train service there called Rodales, which, on all truthfulness, was a bit of a challenge at times, but you know, that's part of the adventure and I enjoy the railway challenge. But no, it was a nice place. It's a nice place of life in caesars as well which was nice.
Speaker 1:I will. I'll link in the show notes to the three um the four different accommodations that we had in spain. I will put a link to those. But yeah, but pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no complaints so we've um talked a little bit about how you guys got around um between and within the cities, but did you want to talk about that? Expand on that and any tips or insights you've got from traveling around?
Speaker 3:Well, I like using metros. Obviously, like London, the London Underground, the metro system in Madrid was very good, very identical in a lot of ways with the different colored lines, so the principle was the same. The ticket is slightly different because we could buy one travel card in Madrid which was for the both of us, which is different to London where you have an Oyster card each. So we loaded it with 10 single journeys and obviously that would be five each traveling together, and that worked very well in Madrid. And then, as I said, in Barcelona, the local services, redalis, which covers into the city as well. So it's again colored lines and it's like many other metro systems around the world, once you got your head around it, the principal lines where you stay in and where you want to get to the main tourist areas, you know it's. It's pretty straightforward, um, and easy to use.
Speaker 1:so, besides metros and walking, yeah, I mean, places like Seville are very walkable, very walkable city anyway. We did use the fast train, though, when we went from Madrid down to Seville, which was pretty good, that was excellent.
Speaker 3:yes, yeah, it took a few hours and we upgraded on that one to the first class as well. I should mention Madrid. Seville and Barcelona have a tram system as well a light rail system. Obviously, the size of the cities determines how many lines that they have, which looks very efficient as well.
Speaker 1:But Seville doesn't really go in this.
Speaker 3:No, there's only the one line. There's only the one line.
Speaker 1:yeah, so you don't really see that.
Speaker 3:The ones at the back of the palace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that's true. Yeah, just thinking the palace, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that's true, yeah, just thinking about it makes it up with all these different cities. But yes, but pretty easy to get around. I don't think we had many problems. Actually, the most difficult trip we had was our trip from uh sigers to barcelona, to the, to the airport, because we had to change trains and obviously we've got suitcases with us and none of the um escalators were working and there were no lifts, so we both had to carry upstairs like 20 kilograms suitcase, up actually a long escalator and then back down again as well, because it's neither going up or down. So, yeah it, that was. That was really difficult I was. I was not in the best of frame of mind by the time we're done no, and a bit discouraging.
Speaker 3:There's no staff around to help or advise either, which is no, and that would have been a struggle.
Speaker 1:So anybody, you know it was difficult for us to do, uh, and actually there was an elderly couple that were coming down and they they in spanish were saying to us like you're gonna have to have some strength, the right doing the like, showing the muscles, gonna be like this, because it was a big escalator to carry all the suitcases, but we're looking at alternatives because Sidge's is pretty close to Barcelona Airport, so when we arrived we took an Uber, didn't? We yeah, normally yeah, which is straightforward yeah.
Speaker 3:And then we thought we were being smart because the apartment was so close to Sidge's train station. We thought we were being smart by taking the metro.
Speaker 1:No, obviously. So you can imagine how many times I said this is why I booked the transfer, this is why I booked the transfer, this is why I get a taxi. So, and and um, yeah, I did say that it's because of those things you can't plan for it seemed like the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 3:It ended up being a nightmare. It did, and the train line to the airport went to the wrong terminal as well yeah, so. So then we had quite a faff getting from terminal two to terminal one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was a pain.
Speaker 3:So when it took us about 30, 40 minutes to get from Barcelona airport to the accommodation, it took over an hour and a half to get back to the airport.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So my advice honestly is if you decide to stay in the Sijas, which I would highly recommend, rather than staying in Barcelona, just get a transfer, get a taxi to the airport. Do not do what we did. Honestly, we never do that.
Speaker 3:It's first time we've done that ever and it was not good.
Speaker 2:We'll be doing it again let's talk about some of the things you did there, like your tours and experiences. Um, I think you said you did a couple of tours food and historical history sort of tours so what were your favorites, what were the highlights?
Speaker 1:Oh, we did quite a few tours. Now I'm going to start off with the three tapas tours that we did. Well, actually we did four. We did three specific tapas, like history of the food, trying the food tours in in seville and madrid and barcelona. But in seville we also did an additional tapas tour, which was a tapas and flamenco tour, which I have to say was one of the best tours.
Speaker 1:I love food tours anyway, but because you learn about history and you meet the locals and you go into local places where they have the food that you know that the food is genuine, authentic, but marrying that tapestry with the flamenco that we saw. I've never seen anything like that. It was incredible. And we had Sophie who was a guide. So massive shout out to Sophie because you were amazing, and she's been to 500 or so these shows and she said this is one of the best ones she'd ever seen. Um, so I would highly recommend that. That was with devour. We did all of the food tours with devour. So thanks very much, devour, for inviting us onto those tours. As I say, we did four, uh, with monty in madrid, which was fantastic. So, um, and that's, that was some of the most amazing food. Honestly, it was fantastic. And then, obviously, in Seville, we did, we did two, two tours there, food tours, and then we had the final one, in Barcelona, um with Ariana on, which was just last week, and Ariana was excellent, excellent.
Speaker 1:It was just so good because you don't just learn about the food, you learn about history, you get to eat in local places, you just learn so much, um, and also, I mean, you do get the food and the drink, which is fantastic. Um, so they, they were just just made us so much, in fact, so much when we're in istanbul at the moment and we're doing a food tour tomorrow, um, because it's just a wonderful way to learn about a place through the food culture. Um, but honestly, I have to say, one of the absolute highlights I will never, ever forget that flamenco.
Speaker 3:No, it was absolutely outstanding. I saw it when I was a little lad and my memory had held fast. It was just as exciting just as passionate. It was just an unbelievable experience. And of course Andalusia is the home of flamenco.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where it comes from and you know. It's just fantastic, honestly, they're so talented. And we also did some walks tours. We did civil in a day uh with alba, who is going to be one of my all-time favorite uh tour guides ever. I absolutely loved alba. Alba was amazing. We did a real show show at alba in which you can see on our instagram. I'm following her on Instagram now. She follows us. Just amazed, she was so lovely, wasn't she?
Speaker 3:She really was. We went and had lunch with her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had lunch with her afterwards.
Speaker 2:Because we went on this show and it was just me and Douglas, so we ended up having a private dinner.
Speaker 1:I know how lucky were we. It was incredible.
Speaker 3:So I can say, with all the Devour and the Walks or the guides, they've chosen their staff well, because they all demonstrate such passion and a real love for the whole topic.
Speaker 1:They're storytellers.
Speaker 3:They are, and they have that right balance between the history of the towns or cities and the food part. They do seem to have it well planned out, yeah yeah, no, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1:So that's the other devour ones, and then the the walks tours as well, like saying the guides are just fantastic you know, um alba was was amazing.
Speaker 1:And then a barcelona we did. We recently did a um gaudi tour as well, with with walks, which was amazing. So obviously went to la sagrada familiar, which I saw 20 years ago and my goodness how different. It's nearly finished and it just, oh, it's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful. And then we went to Park Güell again, which I went to 20 years ago. I remember it's the first time you'd been it was yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we did Casa Barlo, which I'm going to pronounce completely incorrectly, which is another one of Gaudi's houses that he designed, and yeah, so that was fantastic and it's really lovely. I mean, you know, you associate Barcelona and Gaudi, kind of go hand in hand, so I think I have an appreciation of that. Again, our guide, oliver, was very good. Same passion, exactly, it was excellent. We did do a data to Granada and alhambra which we took from seville, um, which we just booked, uh, through another company, through through get your guide, and I think that was probably our most disappointing too, actually the weather didn't exactly help for the day either, to be truthful, but it was a bit large group.
Speaker 1:It was a full coach size party and I mean large, we're talking like maybe 48 something, 48, 50 people or something like that. And you know you can see the difference between that tour and something like if you go on the walks tours where there's maximum like 15 of you. It's like it's so different and it was a little bit it. No offense to the guide and the heart hammer, it just was a little bit boring. I think it was just a little bit it. No offense to the guide in the alhambra, it just was a little bit boring. I think it was just a little bit too much information and detail. There's a certain amount. You know what I think the difference is. You need to have the stories to go with it, because if you just tell people history, it gets a bit. I don't know, I used to be a history teacher it gets a bit dry and boring every lecture rather than, like tell us the stories about the place.
Speaker 1:The thing I'll always remember, you know, is just think about the fact that in Alhambra the sultans had red hair, which I'll always remember that, because she was telling the story of that, because it's not what you kind of expect. So that was really interesting, but otherwise it was a very, very long day. I think if I did that again, I'd stay in Granada.
Speaker 3:Oh, it was 13 hours. But another thing with the large groups, everyone is less inclined to ask questions and interact with the group In a sort of you know, 10, 12, 15,. It's easy to mix with other members of the group yes, very true, yeah.
Speaker 1:And also I'm also going to say, to be honest, we'd just been to Morocco, so I think everything was held up against the I, I was a little bit or I'm going to get shot down in flames by this, I'm sure but the alhambra, I guess I was a bit disappointed by it. I just expected it to be, I don't know, to just impress me more.
Speaker 1:Yeah I don't know, I just think after morocco, and I did actually say, I think I said on my instagram, on my instagram stories, like don't, don't go to morocco, because you've just been to Morocco because you're going to help.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so yeah, the weather didn't help that day. To be fair, true, true.
Speaker 2:Well, talking about weather, let's talk about the weather overall. While you were in Spain and you know what was it like and how did it impact your travels- Well, the saying goes, the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane but it didn't?
Speaker 1:The rain in Spain fell mainly on me and Doug.
Speaker 3:To be honest, Wherever we were in Spain.
Speaker 1:Spain had the worst March I think they've had, for I think every single day it rained. I won't even talk about Portugal, because Portugal ended up in a complete wash-up. Portugal was even worse.
Speaker 3:We did have some.
Speaker 1:Madrid it rained every day. Seville we did have some sunshine, which, thank goodness, so it was more showers. We did have a couple of days of torrential rain. Barcelona thank goodness this is ironic that we flew out from Porto, we left beautiful sunshine and we actually got delayed. In fact, we were delayed on the runway in porto for an hour or so because we couldn't land in barcelona because there was such bad weather thunderstorms so we had to be delayed. Anyway. We eventually landed in barcelona, beautiful sunshine. So I will not complain because, honestly, for most of that week in barcelona we had beautiful sunshine and lovely weather and we were sit on the beach and at the times when we weren't going off to Barcelona to do stuff or walking around Sidgers, we could just have an hour or so on the beach and relax and enjoy some sunshine, which I have been craving.
Speaker 1:I actually read a book as well, which is nice.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Well, let's just talk overall Any tips or recommendations that you know, anything you learned from your trip and your time in spain well, I've actually just put an article together of um 12 tips for anybody visiting, uh, spain for the first time, so I'll put a link to that in the show notes. Um, and we've also written um a guide to visit in seville, uh, and I'm finishing off a guide to visit in barcelona. From our kind of, from what we've learned from this trip as well. I mean, spain is somewhere that I'd visited many times as a child, many times as I was growing up. It's very popular with British visitors.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we're both visited.
Speaker 1:And Doug had been many, many times before, so it was kind of nice to rekindle that, but also kind of just to learn a little bit more about you know. Rekindle that, but also kind of to just to learn a little bit more about you know, visiting spain in 2025 and and what it looks like. Um, I think for me, I would just say, if you plan to visit spain, read our articles, because we've literally just been, so you've got up-to-date information about all the places we've visited and getting around and also, um, some tips. If it's a first-time visit, and then I don't know for you, doug, what would be your one tip well, it's just.
Speaker 3:Similar advice to give to visit in the uk is to try as far as possible to keep your travel plans flexible. And new piece of advice as well is we wouldn't have found out about the train strikes if we didn't try and keep you know on top of local news as well, because we wouldn't have known not speaking spanish, we would not have known. So it's only by chance we did actually find out from the guide in Seville who mentioned it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was Alba. She mentioned it, yeah.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, where possible, keep your plans flexible. Not always easy, particularly with families, you know you do need that more rigidity in your planning, but as much as possible, you know, keep on top of local news where possible to find out if your plans can be impacted.
Speaker 1:And let's just have that flexibility. I mean, you know we weren't expecting to have so many days of rain, but luckily we packed layers, we had raincoats, we'd just bought some cheap umbrellas and you just got to go with it. You know, train strikes happen, the weather can be awful, but you know, at the end of the day it was. We had a wonderful time exploring Spain. We met some fabulous people on our trips. We met some amazing guides, we've tried some wonderful food and, again, some fantastic experiences. So, yeah, we thoroughly enjoyed it. So you know, if you're considering a visit in Spain in 2025, you know, go for it absolutely.
Speaker 3:Most definitely.
Speaker 2:All right, one last question for each of you, Tracy, just tell us off the top of your head what was your favourite thing that you did, saw, experienced?
Speaker 1:It's going to have to be the flamenco. I just couldn't and I know Dil's probably going to want to say the same, but I just I cannot tell you just how fantastic the whole experience is. It really just carries you away. We went to off the top of my head. I can't remember the place in Seville. It just reopened again and I know that the guy that he really wants the kind of like the authentic experience for anybody who goes there.
Speaker 1:And I think that while they say who's going to be on that night, it may change even up to an hour or so before and generally the performers will not have met each other. They will never perform again together. So they just arrive, they decide on the style they're going to do and then they just go for it. So it's really improvised. So that is what's incredible. You kind of know that they haven't practiced this.
Speaker 1:Night after night after night, they just turn up, they talk to each other about whichever style they're going to do and then they just go for it. I mean, like it's, it's incredible. Oh yeah, not choreographed, no, no, they just go for it and um, yeah, so that was fantastic and obviously the food, but the yeah, the flamenco. I'll never forget that. It really was so amazing and I have put some videos on Instagram and we're going to do YouTube videos as well. And we have got because you can't take video or photos during the actual performance, but they do let you. They do like a little mini performance at the end where you can, because you don't want to during it because you're so immersed in it.
Speaker 3:I, because you don't want to during it, because you're so immersed in it. I'll just say that yeah, because that would be my experience as well. The standout, because you cannot help not to be moved by the flamenco. You can see everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Their eyes are just fixed on it from the first minute to the last minute. You just cannot take your eyes off it. So when they say you can't take photos and videos, it's actually in your favour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:Because you would miss it. And you know Sophie said beforehand, you know, don't just watch the performers, but watch the guitarists, the musicians, because they lead. You know, watch their eye movements, the little flickers they're looking at each other all the time.
Speaker 1:They're literally looking at each other, watching each other, and then that will kind of motivate them to whatever they do next. It's incredible. It's such a the relationship between all those performers and, like I said, they might never have met and may never ever perform together again. For the professionals, it's incredible.
Speaker 3:Absolutely incredible, and my other one, to return to cities after all those years, was special. Um, because you know, you're not sure your memories of a five to six, seven year old are actually are actually real ones or not, or just manufactured in my head. But there's a little bit of pieces that just came back to me and I said so we can go down that road there, we can turn up there. Are you sure I went?
Speaker 3:well, yeah, I think so, yeah yeah, I don't know how, I don't know how, but that was pretty special, yeah yeah, so that was really good and when he said it was 30 years I think he wishes well, you've given us a great overview of spain.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, it took me back. I was in Spain last year myself and I love, I love Spain so much. So, um, yeah, I definitely say, just go to Spain, it's so much fun. Um, but anyway, thank you so much for giving us that overview and letting me interview you again well, I'm gonna say um, melissa, thank you so much for coming on and agreeing to do it.
Speaker 1:Um, it's great. I'm probably going to be asking you to do exactly the same thing about Istanbul in you're kind of a resident, resident interviewer. So if you just want to remind our listeners exactly where they can find you as well, because obviously if you're listening every month you're on, but yeah yeah, sure, thank you, tracy.
Speaker 2:Uh, yes, well, um, you can find me on thrifty family travels, where I have my family travel or my local pages are the Queensland Travel Guide and Brisbane Travel Guide.
Speaker 1:Perfect, so you can find a link to Melissa's websites and the show notes and all the places we talked about and the articles in the show notes for this episode, which will be at globaltravelplanningcom. Forward slash, episode 51. But that just leaves all of us to say until next week's episode, happy global travel planning. Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Global Travel Planning Podcast. For more details and links to everything we discussed today, check out the show notes at globaltravelplanningcom. Remember, if you enjoyed the show, please consider leaving us a review on your favorite podcast app, because your feedback helps us reach more travel enthusiasts, just like you. Anyway, that leaves me to say, as always happy global travel planning.