A Few Travel Planning Websites I Find Useful (2018) 我在計畫旅行實用的幾個網站‥

It came back again, the feeling. THIS feeling. My heartbeats increased and somewhere deep inside was this big mixture of excitement and fear.


那感覺又回來了，那種感覺。我的心跳不斷加速，而那在我內心深處、一團參雜著未知與興奮的快感逐漸湧出‥


Ever since my travel mate suggested that we should just go for it and hit the road, I have been experiencing this feeling quiet often. I guess humans are naturally born to love those unknowns and future unexpected adventures. That's why I wouldn't call "the feeling" a bad thing, on the contrary it feeling kind of badass if you ask me.


自從旅伴向我提起，他想要放下在柏林的一切和我一起出走，我便常常體驗這種興奮感。我想，人類生來就愛追求這種對未知的冒險的刺激感。它讓你心跳加速，隨時處於興奮和警戒之中。然而，它並不是一種不好的感覺，反而‥感覺起來‥還挺不賴的。








Back then a few years ago, at the age of 21-22, I was a young college girl , all I could dreamed about was going away, going far. I remember how my heart was throbbed when I was first notified that I was chosen to work in a campsite in somewhere country side of Vermont, USA.


My soul was shouting and craving to travel and see the world.


好幾年前，大約21、22歲吧，還在讀大學的時候，我每天夢想著想要旅行，想旅行到很遠的地方去。還記得，當我得知我被選中在美國一個露營區工作的時候，那時我的心臟跳的好大力，好像要跳出身體一樣。

我的靈魂嘶吼，充滿對世界好奇的渴望。


As a travel addict and semi-nerd, I do LOVE to do researches and read what other people say about my destinations. I would spend hours, even days, by just reading on internet or books.

身為一個對旅行重度上癮（並有點宅）的旅人，我熱愛蒐集資料以及閱讀各種旅行文學和遊記。我可以花上幾個小時，甚至幾天蒐集各種關於我目的地的資料。





Before our Christmas trip to Spain, we also booked our tickets to Portugal in Spring, it will be our first big trip and Spain was only a predish. After we came back to Berlin, I've been putting a lot of my efforts on improving our next trip to Portugal.

在我們到西班牙旅行之前，我們也訂了春天到葡萄牙的機票，這將會是我們第一次大＂長期旅行＂，而西班牙之旅只是前菜，先暖暖身。回柏林後，我花了許多心力和精神在蒐集資料，希望能讓我們的葡萄牙之旅更順利。

There were few information I wish I'd known already before we traveled in Spain. Of course we knew some of them already but as travel/tourism business keeps growing bigger and bigger each day, there is always something new to discover.

網海茫茫，有些資訊我希望我們在到西班牙之前就已經知道的，當然有些我們之前就知道的，但是旅行這件事，在網路發達的今天，無時無刻都有新的資訊和新的網站誕生，有太多新資訊值得我們去發掘。



Therefore I write this article, I will list some websites I've gathered during my research, I thought if I was going to make notes in my notebook file on the laptop, why not also post and share them on this blog with you or whomever needs those kind of info.

這也是我寫這篇文章的原因，我會列出一些做功課時蒐集來的網址給大家參考。


 Working on a boat　在船上工作

- Find a Crew
https://www.findacrew.net/en/

- Crew Seekers
https://www.crewseekers.net/

- Ocean Crew Link
http://oceancrewlink.com/ 

- Work on a cruse line
http://www.wanderingearl.com/travel-resources/work-on-cruise-ships



House Sitting 幫人＂看家＂

For general info about house sitting, you can visit the Blog "Hecktic Travels". It's an amazing Blog about traveling and they are very experienced in housesitting. I will only put a few websites that I am interested and maybe for our personal future uses here but if you check out other Blogs, you will find more links of similar websites listed. 

Hecktic Travels是一個我非常喜歡的旅行部落格，格主對＂幫人看家＂這份＂工作＂有很深厚的經驗，甚至出了一本電子書，我非常有興趣。這裡我只列出對於我們往後旅行有幫助的幾個看家網站，如果你點閱其他旅行部落格，他們也有許多類似的看家網站可以參考。



- Nomador
https://www.nomador.com/

- Trusted House Sitters
https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/


Work

- Travel Nurse　旅行護士

A lot of my readers are also friends of mine from college, that means a lot of you have a qualified Nurse license as well. There is finally a good news about this job! The world needs more nurses, no doubt, we have enough amount of Nurses but no one wants to have this job, at least not for long. Many of my friends, included myself quit after 1 year working in the hospital. The reasons are pretty common heard- for example: too less paid, too much stress, no time for vacation. 

If you can related to the pain as I mentioned above.. Well then, here is something for you!

在我的讀者當中，有許多人是我的大學同學，也就是說，有許多人都擁有合格的護理師證書。太好了，終於有一件關於護理工作的好消息要告訴你們˙！我們的世界需要非常多的護理師／護士，只可惜沒什麼人願意在這個職業領域生存太久。我有許多朋友，我自己也在內， 在醫院工作一年後便辭職了，常見的理由有：薪水太低、壓力太大以及沒時間放假。

如果你懂我在說什麼的話‥那我有個好消息要告訴你！






With a qualified Nurse license, you could work as a travel nurse. You will get good paid to keep your travel (means you are always on holiday- which helps to reduce the stress from work). Some agencies I've read even offer other benefit such as in accommodations and so on.

要是你擁有一份合格護理師證書，那就成為一位「旅行護士」吧！你會賺進足夠的薪水讓你繼續你的旅程，旅行護士的工作通常是短期的，一個地方結束後再到下一個地方。越多的旅行代表越多的放假，而放假可以幫助減輕工作壓力，這就是我們要的，不是嗎？我看到有些代辦機構甚至提供住宿和其他優惠呢。

I personally wouldn't work as a travel nurse, but I am happy about seeing this business grows so rapidly. Who knows? It could be my future back-up plan. Or yous. 

當然，我痛恨這份工作，我自己並不打算選擇當一位旅遊護士，但我還是非常開心，看到這份工作越來越普及。誰知道呢？這可能會成為我未來的後備方案。

或你的？

http://thealternativeways.com/get-worldwide-travel-nursing-jobs/


Blogs that I find useful..　其他有用的網站

https://matadornetwork.com
https://www.seat61.com
http://thealternativeways.com/travel-blog/
https://www.nomadicmatt.com/
https://theblondeabroad.com/