When I first left to move abroad for university in 2007, a friend of mine let me in on a little secret for weekend getaways in Europe: Hostelworld.
Okay, so it isn’t so secret, and it isn’t so little, but I hadn’t yet heard of it and it quickly became one of my most important travel tools because hostels became essential to my travels. At the time, iPhones weren’t as prominent as they are now (and anyway, my friends and I all had those crappy little Nokia phones with about $20 US of credit per month on them), so there wasn’t necessarily an app for traveling and hostels and everything like there is today.
