Quick Tip Archive

  • Vietnam

    4 Tips for Traveling Without Reducing your Neurotic Parents into Nervous, Gibbering Wrecks

    Guest Post by: Mike Curtis who has has just returned to Merry old Blighty after spending 3 months being very, very lost in Asia. He now works for Uswitch, comparing gas and electricity prices. Forever. “Mum, I’m going to go to a Malaria hot spot,...

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  • Mingle San Francisco

    New Free Travel App for San Francisco and New York

    I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. As some of you know, a few months back I took a job at Facebook and since then my focus has shifted from this site. All my time has been spent working and I’ve done very little travel and...

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  • Jet Lag Tips

    Tricks and Tips for Dealing with Jet Lag

    I’ve been a little bit quiet here for awhile, in part because of the topic of this post: travel and jet lag. A few weeks back I had the fortune of being flown by one of the world’s top companies from Vietnam to San Francisco...

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  • "Monkeying" around!

    “Welcome to Barbados, Where the Coldest Thing about our Weather is our Beer.”

    As a travel junkie and a writer, I always look forward to my favourite travel magazine arriving in my mailbox. There is something alluring about that glossy cover, the beautiful photographs (always much better than my own) and that smell of ink and dust. I...

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  • Hanoi Street

    My Wallet Got Nicked in Hanoi … In Less Than 24 Hours

    Sweet readers, this has not been my favorite day on my ’round the world adventure. I have been a bit humbled by the experience of having my wallet ‘vanished’ right under my nose. I arrived in Hanoi yesterday afternoon and it was major culture shock...

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  • Home

    Making Temporary Places Feel Like Home

    I have been on the road now for just over three months. I love to travel but like many people I also crave some stability: a little corner of the world to call my own. Sometimes it’s challenging to recreate a sense of comfort and...

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  • Credit Card Fraud

    Travel Tip: How to Avoid Credit Card Fraud

    Lifehacker recently posted a shocking statistic about credit card fraud: Hotels security breaches make up a shockingly high percentage of the credit card data heists each year. How high? 38% of cases can be traced back to hotels. Everyone is worried about the waiter stealing...

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