Travel tips

There’s a particular shade of panic that happens when you need something urgently in a foreign country. It’s the moment when your card, the same one that works in your country, decides to throw a tantrum at a restaurant in Nigeria just as you are about to pay for meal you just had.  The machine beeps. Once. Twice. Three times.  […]

I went on vacation to Paris. I was sitting in a café, sipping overpriced coffee and pairing it with a croissant. My laptop was open, my phone was uploading photos to the cloud, and I was checking my bank account to see if I could afford that vintage leather jacket I’d spotted earlier.  What I didn’t know was that someone three