2217“This quote is from my mom. She said that always when I was growing up, and especially when I was making some of the bigger decisions about travel after graduating.

”I found it interesting because I found it repeated when I was staying with a host family in Argentina. I was going through a lot of different decisions in my life at the time, and my host mother, in Spanish, said basically the same quote and gave me the same advice.”

Lauren runs the Spanish Sabores blog. Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.