Guides
You're almost packed, the trip's a few days out, and one question keeps nagging: mobile hotspot vs eSIM, which one do you actually need? Both get you online abroad, but they feel completely different in your hand. They cost different amounts and they suit very different trips. So I pulled the...
Lena Reinhardt
News
Plenty of articles this year promise new EU roaming rules for 2026. I went through the primary sources instead, the regulation and the Commission's own pages, and found two confirmed changes dated 1 January 2026. Two. Everything else doing the rounds is a proposal, a negotiation, or badly dated.
Aylin Demir
Guides
A cheap travel adapter off an online marketplace looks like every other one. It fits the socket, charges your phone, costs next to nothing. And that's exactly the problem. A 2026 investigation by Electrical Safety First found safety defects across all 15 adapter models it pulled from online...
Aylin Demir
Guides
Finding the best eSIM for Thailand starts with a blunt fact: your phone contract stops being cheap the moment you cross into Thailand. The EU roaming regulation, the thing everyone calls "roam like at home", covers the 27 EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland, and that is where...
Lena Reinhardt
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