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Reader Postcard - Joining A Charity Vacation
Joining a Charity Vacation was the best idea…. It was my partner who found the trip for me. I’d seen them advertised a million times before, but just never felt that final ‘tipping p...
Traveling With Your Pets - Why Take Your Pet?
The first thing you need to ask yourself is - Why am I taking my pet? I know this seems like an obvious question, but really think this through before you make any other plans. Are you taking your pet...
Top 10 - Reasons To Learn A Foreign Language
Top 10 Reasons to Learn a Foreign Language For some, learning a second language seems very easy - and to some learning a third or fourth is also easily achieved - however, for the majority it seems as...
Traveling With Your Pets - Home And Abroad
Travelling With Your Pets. If you wish to take your pet on vacation with you, there are many things to consider before you set off. You firstly need to think about the whether the destination is suita...
How Many Countries Have You Traveled To??
We all love to travel - but have you travelled enough? I know these days we are supposed to be cutting down our travel, but if you work abroad or have been around the world - you may find you already ...
Travel with Kids - Preparation Has Great Benefits!!!
Travel With Kids Series - Part 1 Lets start at the very beginning here - it really is the best place. Step 1: So, you have the idea of a vacation with your family, but you are not sure how easy it wil...
Guide To Vacation And Travel Satisfaction!
Wanderlust Awards 2008 The travel magazine Wanderlust recently announced it’s awards for the things we use and need when travelling, and it rated them on a ’satisfaction’ scale of ho...
Costa Rica Vacation - Samara Beach
Samara Beach Vacation Details: This is the beach resort to come to if you want sunshine, a long sandy beach and hardly any other people in your way. We arrived in the afternoon at our Hotel - The Be...
Ultimate Guide To Rucksacks - Part 1
Welcome to my Simple Rucksack Guide. This start-up guide to rucksacks will cover the different types (or sizes) or rucksacks that you will find in outdoor or camping stores and it should allow you ...
Destination - Guyana
How many of you actually know where it is? I bet most of you haven’t even heard of it or thought it was in Africa! Well, Guyana is a small country (about the size of the UK) in South America: bo...
Costa Rica Vacation - Santa Elena
Now the Santa Elena region has all the touristy places to visit - apart from the Santa Elena reserve itself. It’s mainly all town and houses although you get to drive past cattle fields on the w...
Ultimate Guide to your First Time Flight - Part 2
Right, you are nearly there. You are through all the security and paperwork checks - now relax, do some shopping and get ready to board the plane……. Departure lounge It is in here that you...
What To Expect With A Vacation Package (3*)
If you have never been on a Vacation Package, it can be very difficult to gauge whether it is going to be for you. The lure of free food and drink for your entire stay sounds great - as does the beach...
Costa Rica Vacation - Final Details
Right. A quick update before we go as we have found a few small problems to change our plans yet again. The flight to New York has been put back an hour, so we only get 3 hours from touch-down to t...
Costa Rica Vacation - The Preparation
Me and my friend have been planning to go to Costa Rica for the whole of April for some time, and although we had a rough idea of the things we wanted to see and do - the departure date is fast approa...
Sample Hotel Reservation Letter
Hello there, just a question really. I was checking out some of the most searched phrases for travel blogs and this one came up: Sample Hotel Reservation Letter Around 100 people a day search for thi...
It’s Been A Month Already……
I can’t believe that so much has happened in just the last 4 weeks! In fact it came so quick that I almost missed this milestone after returning from Cuba yesterday. We have 11 posts on the s...