Handy Tips for Travelling with Pets

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If you can’t bear the thought of travelling the world without your best friend, you might want to consider bringing your pet along on your next holiday. However, travelling with pets can produce anxiety for both you and your furry friend without a little bit of planning ahead. There are a few steps you can [...]

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New ways to track travel safety in real time

new ways to track travel safety

Several decades ago, planning a trip to somewhere potentially dangerous was a much more complicated affair. Information circulated at a much slower rate and you relied on reports in newspapers and magazines, and alerts from embassies and government sources. These days, lack of information is not the problem. Often, there is too much of it. [...]

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How smart is your car?

smart car

In a great effort to improve road safety, recent progressions in driver-assist technology have given drivers renewed peace of mind on the roads. This technology includes GPS navigating, blind spot monitoring and night vision enhancement components. In addition, adaptive cruise controls and lane support systems have been created among many other elements to make your [...]

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Where to go this Easter: Rhodes, Mexico and Geneva

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Easter marks the start of spring and it’s the perfect time to get away and discover a new country. These destinations are well worth exploring during your Easter break. If you’re looking for cracking Easter holiday deals beatthebrochure is the place to find them! Rhodes – nsurprisingly one of the most popular of the Greek [...]

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How I Plan for a Bus Trip

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I’d like to think I have mastered the art of bus travel. After using this mode of transportation extensively in both South America and Africa, I think I am pretty darn close, anyway. In this post, I want to explain what has become a fairly meticulous routine when it comes to preparing for long haul [...]

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Why You Should Consider an Affordable Weekend Trip

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Many people think of a vacation as something that lasts a week or longer. But, a weekend trip can be sufficient for what you need: a break from your routine and a chance to explore a completely different place. In fact, this kind of mini-vacation may be exactly what you need. Weekend city breaks have [...]

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10 Indispensable Tips for your Next Trip

20 basic tips for travel

There are plenty of tip based posts related to travel, but this one will be specifically focused on keeping you safe. After reading this, you should have a few concrete ideas on how you can improve your safety before traveling. 1. Assemble all of your documentation beforehand You should have a variety of important documentation [...]

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A Cheap Holiday, but also a Safe One

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It’s quite easy to be tempted by holiday offers from companies and tour operators that have nothing in mind other than lining their pockets. Depending on your destination, you want to make sure that you will be receiving a quality service that also takes in to account your safety and security. In this post, we [...]

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Why it Pays to Stay in a Quality Hotel

quality hotel room

We have discussed how to choose a safe hotel and furthermore, how to stay safe once you are in your hotel room. But we haven’t quite explored all the benefits when it comes to a quality (and obviously safe) hotel. There is more to it than just having a comfortable place to lay your head. [...]

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A New Graphic on Plane Safety

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We posted about the safest place to sit on planes, buses or trains a while back. We had concluded in that post, based on a study from Popular Mechanics, that the rear of the plane is — in general — safer than seats elsewhere. While it’s true that many plane crashes are catastrophic affairs and [...]

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