If you have been spending a good number of months each year on some remote parts of the world as a backpacker, then you are the so called “professional backpacker.” A professional backpacker is someone who makes it their business to see the world … [Read more...]
Smart Reminders for Savvy Summer Travelers
The planning phase of your travel can be contributory in a successful holiday. It is one aspect that is frequently neglected by novice, resulting at times to a problematic vacation. These days, travelers enjoy a wide range of options. Some aspects … [Read more...]
Travel Insurance: Reading the Fine Print
Insurance can add up to your travel cost, which is why many budget travelers would prefer not to get one, if they have a choice, or to buy the cheapest one just for compliance. Until that fateful day when you would have a dire use for it to cover … [Read more...]
Multi-generational Travel: Baby Boomers’ Last Hot Pursuit
Grandparents, parents (and their siblings), along with their kids and grandkids, (and sometimes with other assorted family members) are discovering an enriching way to spend time together during long holidays: multi-generational travel. It is a … [Read more...]
Happily Pregnant and Travelling
Who wants to miss the joys of travel and holidaying when it is possible? Heavy with pregnancy, some women might have second thoughts, especially when taking a long-haul flight. If truth be told, being pregnant makes travel a little harder, but travel … [Read more...]
The Repatriation and Medical Coverage that Travel Insurance Buy
You must have heard these questions asked often enough to wonder if you are missing on something pretty important, if you are not buying yet: “Won’t you buy a travel insurance?” or “Never leave home without travel insurance.” It is true that … [Read more...]
Yielding to the Itch of Cruising and Fighting the Norovirus “Bug”
With the holiday just around the corner, many are taking breaks from work for a long holiday. At a season like this, going on a long cruise seems a titillating idea. The news of virus outbreaks in several cruises this year, however, can make you … [Read more...]
Ebola Watch: Why It Must Not Keep You from Travelling
There is a good reason to be scared of the Ebola virus, and travel. The 2014 epidemic is considered to be the largest in history with several West African countries being affected by it and with the threat that it can even spread to other countries … [Read more...]
Travel Aids To Keep You Healthy
“To travel is to live,” says Hans Christian Andersen, the famed author of the popular fairy tales “The Little Mermaid “and “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” In his time, travel was reserved for the illustrious lines of royal blood and intellectuals. It … [Read more...]
Surviving Travel with Insensitive Passengers
Every traveller knows that globetrotting is a rewarding experience, but that doesn’t mean it is without risks or, at best (because they can be worse), irritants along the way. Consider travel piques part of the collateral damage, but that doesn’t … [Read more...]