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Why We’re Canceling Our Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Cards

cathy — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:21:14 +0000

While I mentioned a few weeks ago that our days flying Southwest Airlines are probably over for good, my husband Matt had more to say, especially when it comes to our Southwest Rapid Rewards credit cards. So here’s Matt’s second-ever guest post for The Girl Who Goes. Let us know what you think! – Cathy […]

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5 Easy Ways To Be a Respectful Traveler

cathy — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:41:50 +0000

Our trip to Paris last month — during which we experienced a grand total of zero mean Parisians — got us thinking about why we had such a good experience compared to the popular narrative, that French/Parisian people are mean to tourists. But I think we settled on the fact that we tried to be […]

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How To Get Free Notre Dame Cathedral Tickets in Paris

cathy — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:25:15 +0000

We all saw the news in April 2019 — one of the world’s most famous churches, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, caught on fire. And if you somehow missed that, then your Instagram feed was certainly full of every person you knew who’d ever been to Paris posting grainy photos from the early 2000s of […]

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Truth or Stereotype: Are Parisians Actually That Mean?

cathy — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:34:06 +0000

I first visited Paris in the summer of 2011, right after graduating from high school, on my first-ever trip to Europe. After spending a few weeks in Germany with my boyfriend at the time, we boarded a tour bus in Stuttgart for the 10-hour ride to Paris. I remember visiting Notre Dame, being amazed by […]

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Why I Might Never Fly Southwest Airlines Again

cathy — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:08:00 +0000

Earlier this week, I got an email from Southwest Airlines. I haven’t flown with them much in the last few years since I live in Spain now. I also rarely open emails from brands. (Yes, this is why I have 22,461 unread emails in my inbox, a fact that drives Matt crazy.) But something about […]

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How We Booked Two Round-Trip Tickets to Tokyo for $457 with CapitalOne

cathy — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:35:12 +0000

Matt and I have been married for just over six months now, after our destination wedding in Catalunya in late August 2024. And we’ve recently been working on planning our honeymoon trip to Asia, which we’re going to take for our one-year anniversary! So I wanted to share the story of how credit card points […]

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City Review: Bratislava, Slovakia

cathy — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:50:04 +0000

An Eastern European Christmas Market tour this past December was the perfect time to check another new country off the list! After visiting Wroclaw, Poland, and Prague, Czechia — both of which are cities/countries I’d been to before, our last stop was Bratislava, Slovakia. For being the smallest of the cities we visited on this […]

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City Review: Wrocław, Poland

cathy — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:10:00 +0000

This past December, Matt and I set out on our ten-day, three-country Christmas Market tour of Eastern Europe. Our first stop was Wrocław, Poland — a city I visited for the first time on a solo trip back in March 2019. It was really exciting to be back there, especially in such a different situation […]

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UK ETA Visa: What You Need To Know

cathy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:08:07 +0000

Last month, we visited the United Kingdom to spend the first few days of the New Year in Cardiff, Wales. And this weekend, we’ll be heading back to the UK — to Liverpool this time — with a brand new “visa” in hand. This is the new UK ETA visa, or the Electronic Travel Authorisation […]

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Day Trip: Cardiff to the Gower Peninsula

cathy — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:53:24 +0000

I mentioned in my last blog how deciding to visit Cardiff, Wales, in January was quite a choice. ðŸ˜‚ And while we enjoyed our time in Cardiff, the real highlight of our visit to Wales was the day trip we took to the Gower Peninsula. We had considered renting a car in advance of the […]

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