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Taking care of your valuables
Travellers who are careless about their valuables are most annoying because theft casts such a negative aura. If a tourist walks around with his camera strung loosely over his shoulder he shouldn’t be surprised if it’s snatched. If he keeps money in a back pocket or fanny belt he should be prepared to lose it. If she drops her purse on a nearby chair in a restaurant or leaves her baggage unattended in a bus … Read entire article »
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Meeting the mob
Recognize and plan for those times when you need to be particularly careful such as when you arrive by bus, train or plane and the crowd in the arrival area suddenly mobs you, wanting you to take their taxi, their hotel room, their tour. Here are some tips for surviving the mob: Think about what you’ll do when you get off the bus/plane/train such as: look for a money exchange bureau; find the authorized taxi stand; find … Read entire article »
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Worried about travel warnings?
If you listen to all the chatter about what could possibly happen when you travel to foreign destinations then you’ll never leave home. Travel books devote pages to health and safety issues. U.S. government travel advisories are particularly discouraging. You really need to put these warnings into perspective. There are travel snobs who see themselves as intrepid and don’t want ‘just anyone’ to follow in their footsteps. A co-worker of mine kept saying I was a … Read entire article »
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What to bring
I tend to be a light packer, perhaps influenced by my backpacking days in the 70s when we were advised to bring only two outfits—one to wear and one to carry. The clothes were quick drying so we could wash them at night and wear them in the morning. I think a sweater doubled as a housecoat, the nightgown as a dress, that sort of thing. Whatever space was left in our backpacks was reserved … Read entire article »
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