Technology in Travel
“Want to come to Europe with me, next week?” You can imagine the inevitable, universal reply. Despite being quite introverted I made the decision to, on a very short notice, travel to Europe on my own. While transitioning jobs last year, I set out to visit Dublin, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and Copenhagen. Given that no one answered my query in the positive, it so happened that I had a single constant travel companion, my iPhone. Apart from providing an excellent camera to document my journey, my iPhone was the 1 indispensable tool that got me across 7 countries in 3 weeks. This placed in sharp relief the fact that technology continues its trend of disrupting the way we travel. Experiencing strange places is far more manageable than any previous generation could experience. I am a klutzy, awkward person. There is a litany of strange incidents that prove this, but technology helped even me escape this odyssey alive and well. The comedy of errors began before ever leavi...