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Best and worst days and times to fly to avoid airport delays

When the holiday travel season approaches, many Americans head to airports to get to their destinations. Whether it's traveling to see family or heading to a tropical location to escape the chilly weather (and maybe family as well), no one wants to deal with problems and delays once they're at the airport. So what are…

2019-08-130Comments

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Use Google Flights’ own search engine

For years, there has been a flight search engine that has powered the travel industry called ITA Matrix. Google purchased them in 2010. The software - which Google still uses - is available for consumers. The benefits of using the took are that there are far more search options than on the more simple Google…

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Buy 12GB SIM Card Europe at Amsterdam Airport

The prepaid SIM card Europe 12GB has been made for travellers visiting various countries within Europe. The SIM card offers the convenience of one mobile phone number for the whole of Europe. It is an all-in card for calls and data. The SIM card fits in any smartphone and our staff will be more than glad…

2019-08-040Comments

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Books and travel go together. Here are some great bookstores.

Most people who travel have had annoyingly long layovers. Some have also enjoyed annoyingly long flights. And there is only so long you can spend in a Starbucks before you wish you could turn around and go back home. And some airplanes don't have chargers... So . . . books! Books can transport you across the world, so…

2019-07-110Comments

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Many retired people still have trouble spending time their way

Often times, despite our good planning and best intentions, retirement doesn't often turn out to be the way that we had hoped. It turns out that in many situations, what we had planned is not what actually happens and subsequently we find ourselves with a level of disappointment in our retirement. Sometimes we find ourselves,…

2019-06-280Comments

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Google Fi courting travelers by selling SIM cards in airport vending machines

One of the most ubiquitous and frustrating experiences of travel is bad connectivity. In this day and age, it's a crime to not be able to have access to good Wi-Fi or cheap options for cellular service no matter where you go, unless of course it's a destination where that is not a feature. Planning…

2019-05-160Comments

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Low Cost 747??

A new American carrier is challenging the low-cost model by operating a solely jumbo-jet fleet. Avatar Airlines hopes to revive waning interest in Boeing’s 747 by bringing it to the ultra-low-cost market. It's an interesting idea, as so many still-viable planes are retired to be scavenged or to be left to rot. Keep an eye on…

2019-04-280Comments

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Madrid – on the edge

Madrid on the edge - as in edgy. Alternative. Artistic. Explorative. Questioning. Vibrant. Liveable. New . . . and old. Get hip. Read more courtesy of Eye On Spain.

2019-04-200Comments

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Video: People apparently don’t want to live in these places. Why not?

Sometimes ideas don't always go as planned. This video will certainly underscore that thought. We may not necessarily understand the logic that went behind some of these ideas, but it's safe to say that the intended result was perhaps not what it was meant to be. The upside of this is that an intrepid individual…

2019-04-170Comments

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Hey “young old.” Our time is here!

Hey, you may not have heard of this, but this is the decade of the “young old” person. That likely constitutes many of us, so we should be excited! The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the decade of the yold, or the “young old”, as the Japanese call people aged between 65 and…

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Here’s how to know which airline fare you need

This is yet another treatise on how to find the best fares for your flights. Be aware that it is you versus supercomputers, which are used to map the routes and assign the costs. But don't despair, as there are online tools and services that make the job for you much easier. And as the…

2019-03-180Comments

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The 10 most comfortable and cheapest places to live

As we get older, and hopefully wiser, are eyes and ears open what it comes to discovering what makes us happy. And as the world gets smaller, some of those options which might have appeared completely insane just a few years ago, now are readily available. This video shows ten places that are inexpensive to…

2019-03-130Comments

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What to know before booking a trip with more than one layover

Inevitably, when you book flights looking for the absolute cheapest price, a layover is an inevitable component of that trip. Sometimes two or more. When booking flights, some of us have this tendency / paranoia about making sure that we get the best deal at the right time when we are sitting in front of…

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