Author: Elizabeth Thorn
Elizabeth Thorn
Elizabeth is an experienced traveler and expat with bylines in publications like Lonely Planet, Matador Network, and TheTravel. She left her life in Los Angeles at 23 to move abroad and has lived on four continents (and visited six of them!). She currently lives in Lisbon, where she co-owns a business with her husband and spends her free time writing, taking photos, and traveling all over Europe and beyond.
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