HotForWords » Flashpacking http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nerd Word of the Day: Flashpacking http://hotforwords.com/2009/04/13/nerd-word-of-the-day-flashpacking/ http://hotforwords.com/2009/04/13/nerd-word-of-the-day-flashpacking/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:06:55 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=3951 flashpackingFlashpacking: backpacking but with flash or style. An incongruous mix of “slumming it” and luxury.

Thanks to a tweet by @phillyd and his girlfriend who were setting out to flashpack last week, I was made aware of this word.
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Since then I have seen a bunch of tweets on things like the 10 best Flashpacking Hostels in Europe to the Flashpacking Blog Carnival #4 :-)

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