2 Travel Tips I Learned From Recent Europe Trip

Just wanted to share 2 quick things I learned from my recent trip to London/Paris.

1. The first is the Citymapper app. This app is incredible and works in most major cities around the world. It is basically a "How to get from point A to point B for dummies". Plug in your starting point (Hotel ABC) and end point (Louvre Museum) and it gives multiple ways to get there, including walking directions and all available public transport (bus, subway) routes. It will give you turn by turn walking directs to the subway/bus stop, which subway/bus to take, how many stops until you get off and even which subway exit to use to get you closest to your destination. It also gives you time estimates for each means of travel, whether there are delays in the subway or bus, etc. It really was a godsend to have.

2. I found I kept having trouble getting cell/internet service in Paris. I finally googled it and found out there a multiple cell carriers in Paris and some are less reliable than others. To tix it, you have to go into your settings, and under the cellular setting, there is a setting for selecting cell carrier. You have to turn off the "Automatic" toggle and it will then give you list of available carriers. Manually select carriers until you find one that you get service with. Once I did this, I didn't have any further problems using my phone.

Nothing earthshattering here, but thought I would share for anyone that hadn't heard of Citymapper before if you if you run into phone issues while abroad. Hopefully this will be helpful information for someone.

Paris and London were awesome, by the way. First time in either place and the wife and I had a blast.