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6 Solo Travel Tips

The freedom to go precisely where you want, when you want and how you want — behold, the power of one! Here are answers to 6 of the most common solo travel questions: I’m planning to take a trip by … Continue reading

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Google bringing free inflight wifi this holiday season

If you happen to be travelling in the States this holiday season, you might be treated with some free inflight wifi courtesy of Google. Following a similar ‘holiday gift’ last year that saw free wifi in a number of US … Continue reading

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Hello again!

After a bit of a hiatus and some technical snafus, this blog is coming back to life…

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Costa Rica: Close encounters of the animal kind.

Have you ever had the feeling that someone is watching you? You look around and lock eyes with the person, then quickly break eye contact so as to avoid embarrassment on either side. Well this tends to happen quite often … Continue reading

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The Airport – where your adventure begins.

These days we tend to groan at the thought of a trip to the airport. With long and winding check-in lines, less than jovial workers, the necessary strip down for security and too-often delayed flights, we’re more than a little flustered by the … Continue reading

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A to Z of Adventure Travel: Y is for Yemen

  Although one of the Middle East’s most spectacular countries and home to four World Heritage sites, in recent years Yemen has become better known for the kidnapping of tourists than it has for tourism itself.   Located on the … Continue reading

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Nepal Bans Pockets To Fight Bribes

  Staff at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan international airport are being issued trousers without pockets in an effort to eliminate bribe-taking. Nepal’s anti-corruption body said there had been a dramatic increase in public complaints against bribery and it was felt that trousers … Continue reading

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To Shoot Or Not To Shoot

    If I had a dollar for every great photo I’ve missed because my camera was inaccessible, I’d be travelling the world right this moment instead of sitting at my computer! After a few too many ‘ones that got … Continue reading

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Cracking the Airport Codes

      You’re not a real traveller until you can talk in airport codes. It’s all fine and well to say you’re connecting in Chicago, but until you’ve texted your friends and said you’re grabbing a hot dog in … Continue reading

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A to Z of Adventure Travel: X is for Xai-Xai

    Xai-Xai, Mozambique is a bustling town on the banks of the Limpopo River, just 12 kilometres from Praia do Xai-Xai and its massive coral reef. Although this long, sweeping beach and its safe waters have been popular with … Continue reading

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