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Category: Air Travel
Dealing with Common Travel Emergencies
Whether it’s a missed flight, stolen documents or misplaced credit card, travel emergencies happen more often than you think and unless you adequately prepare for them, your trip overseas can easily be replaced with a disappointing ride home. Here are some common travel emergencies people experience, as well as a couple of ways to deal with them and avoid them in the first place.
How to Pass Time on a Long Trip
Sometimes, you'll wonder how to pass time on a long trip. While travelling for a long time, the hours just seem to drag by. Long-haul flights can be very good or not so good. If you get easily bored on a plane, bus or train, why not try some of these tricks to pass the …
8 Ways to Learn A Language As You Travel
Sitting in the departures lounge with a phrase book and no idea how to say anything? It happens to the best of us! English speakers are, of course, utterly spoiled when travelling. So many people speak our language around the world that it can be tempting not to bother with the memorizing. However, the rewards …
How To Survive An Airport Layover
Before we discuss everyone's least favorite part of traveling, I'd like to thank Mark Crone for the opportunity to reach out to his blog's readers! If you're new around here, your next destination should be How To Make Hotel WiFi Work For You or The Only Primer on Airplane Etiquette You'll Ever Need. Airport layovers …
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