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Best Travel Pants: An In-Depth Review
From airport security and 14-hour bus rides to hiking treks and happy hour mixers, today’s travelers expect comfortable, durable, functional travel pants all in a stylish package. Here are six of the best travel pants in 2019 and what you should look for in a really great pair of travel pants for every kind of trip, traveler, and budget.
How to Make the Most of a Layover in Copenhagen
As someone who flies to Europe, not “all the time,” but often enough, and if I’ve learned one thing about European travel it’s that flying directly to your final destination is a missed opportunity for adventure.
How to Make Work Effortless
The way we think about productivity hasn’t changed much in the past 100 years. We hear the same tropes repeated ad nauseum on social media. Laziness is the enemy. Here's why that's wrong.
How to use your travel reward benefits to plan a luxury vacation
Planning a luxury vacation is exciting, but booking a dream destination can also be costly. Luckily there are a few things you can do to potentially save you some money when visiting some of the world's most glamorous places.
Here’s What Happens When You Do 100 Pushups Every Day for a Month
It seems that we might have reached peak self-improvement. But to find our for myself, I took the 30-day pushup challenge. Here's what I learned.
How I Landed Six Pitch Meetings in One Week
Being selected to participate in Coverfly’s Fall 2020 Pitch Week event was a great experience for me! I'd missed out on the previous cycle in the spring, so I applied sort of last-minute on a whim after seeing a reminder email from Coverfly about the final deadline. When I was notified that I’d been officially selected to pitch to at least one company, I was definitely excited.
This is Not a ‘Drought’
Why aridification of the American West isn’t going to stop, and what it means for the people who live in a drier world.
How to Pitch Your Script Like a Pro: 6 Tips from Hollywood Execs
Pitch meetings are scary, especially if you've never pitched to a room full of reps or studio executives. Luckily, there's something you can do to fight the pitch meeting jitters and pitch your script like a seasoned pro. How do we know? Because we asked dozens of studio executives, agents, reps, and Hollywood decision-makers who took part in our most recent Coverfly Fall Pitch Week what they're looking for in a pitch meeting. And they had a lot to say.
Popcorn in Antwerp: the hippest music scene you’ve never heard of
What do you get when you combine kitschy 60s R&B, Flemish DJs, dim lights, Leffe beer, and a sluggish tempo that’s just right for blues dancing? The answer is what writer and musician Bob Stanley has called “Possibly the last truly underground music scene in Europe“.
Exploring Glasgow’s emerging street food scene
Glasgow has everything you’d expect from Scotland’s largest city. Prestigious art schools, world-class museums, year-round festivals, and green space everywhere you look. But there’s always been one thing missing from “Dear Green Place”— and that’s great food.
Luckily, that’s all changing.
Cottage getaway planning: How to enjoy a summer escape while earning cash back rewards
Who doesn't love to get out of the city over the summer for some R&R and the chance to reconnect and unwind with family and friends while the weather is perfect? Booking an ideal summer cottage getaway, however, can be a stressful (and expensive) ordeal if you don't plan ahead. Especially when you consider the cost of gas, activities, and an expensive rental in a prime area.
Urban travel tips: using your travel credit card rewards for a Big Apple adventure
A weekend trip to New York City (NYC) isn't just something you throw together at the last minute. It takes planning, research, countless hours of poring over to-do lists, destination guides, and travel videos if you want to plot your dream vacation to the big city.
The Artists Transforming Helsinki One Wall at a Time
When you picture Finland you probably don’t think about urban street art. But over the past few years, dozens of local and international artists have transformed the face of Helsinki’s historically industrial neighborhoods, wall by wall with murals at train stations, residential buildings, underpasses, and just about every blank wall in Helsinki.
Here’s What it’s Actually Like to Be a Travel Writer
It's not all memoirs and adventure stories.
If you’re interested in making money as a travel writer, settle in, because I’m going to share my experience as a travel writer for the past five years including who I write for, how I earn money as a travel writer, and a few ways you can get started as a travel writer.
You Don’t Take Enough Vacation
How to Ask for the Time Off You Deserve, & Why Vacations Make You a Better Worker
While Europeans casually enjoy anywhere from 4–6 weeks of paid leave every year (Aussies too), many Americans are not only satisfied with our meager 10 paid vacation days—nearly half of American employees don’t even bother to use all of them.
An extensive 2014 GFK workplace study of over 1,300 employees across various industries found that a whopping 41% of American employees don’t use all of their annual paid l...