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Whether
you travel all-the time or just once a year, there are tools, tips and
great
number of ways you can enhance your experience and make it much more
comfortable in the process. You could travel arround the world efficiently and
safely
by using our travel tips. more>
Travel
Health Tips - DVT,
or deep vein thrombosis, is a blood clot that can develop when sitting
for an extended period of time. The condition is serious, potentially
fatal and very difficult to diagnose by external examination.
Emergency
Info -
A guide to the most useful emergency information.
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 Travel
Tools -
Travel tools available to anyone with access to a computer and the Net. |
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| Cheap
Travel Insurance: How To Save Big
Time On Coverage... Starting Now! |
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| Tips For Summer Driving - Summer
weather conditions can be the same rigors for your car as in winter,
especially
if your vehicle is not prepared properly. |
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| Travel
Health Info - The intimacy of life aboard a cruise ship may foster
romance, but
it can also aid the spread of bacteria like Shigella
and Giardia,
which cause intestinal upsets, and Ligonella, which
sometimes causes pneumonia (and which killed a cruise passenger in
1994). |
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| Employment
Info - Links to useful employment information |
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| Insider
Travel Tip: Dealing With Travel Agency |
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| Pets
Welcome - For
those who can't bear to leave their animal companions behind when they
travel this site lists info and links on pets friendly hotels, motels,
inns and bed-and-breakfasts through the U.S. and Canada. Pet positive
beaches,
camping grounds and even ski resorts that allow animal friends to ride
the lifts are included. Check out their travel info section to learn
how
to take your pet anywhere. |
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| Swimmers
Guide Online - This
guide which lists more than 15,000 public swimming pools in more than
150
countries. The guide includes a description of each pool and its
facilities;
opening hours and admission fees; and information about local swimming,
diving, water polo and synchronized swimming teams. Some pools are
reviewed
by the web site's editors or readers. |
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| Country
Travel Reports - Consult the Country Travel Reports before your
departure to find out about security and safety conditions, health
questions
and entry requirements for the country or countries you are going to.
The
Department publishes reports for over 200 destinations around the world. |
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| Glimpses
of the Road - True
traveler's tales told around the campfire. A collection of brief travel
anecdotes, observations, tirades, and stories, mostly gleaned from... |
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| Going
Dutch: Meet the Locals by Rick Steves |
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| Brasil!
Língua e Cultura - Real Audio Lessons available to
anyone
with access to a computer and the Net. Links will take you to the
corresponding
real audio page. Simply press the play button and the audio will begin
streaming to your computer with very little download time. Travel in
Brazil
is easy if you can speak some language. |
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| GUIDES
- Travel guides date quickly: hotel prices rise, visa rules are
revised,
new attractions open, restaurants close. To help cost-conscious
travelers
stay abreast of such changes, Lonely Planet, publisher of a well-known
series of backpacker travel guides, is issuing updates to some of its
most
popular titles on the Web. The addendums summarize important changes
that
have taken place since the most recent guide to a given country
appeared.
Would-be adventurers to check that on their web site: lonelyplanet.com,
and
print out the update you need and stick it in the back of your personal
guidebook. |
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| London
to Paris under the Channel in 3 hours |
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