Some of the best trips happen when I meet up with friends who live in the country I’m visiting. It’s always beneficial to get authentic travel advice straight from the mouth of a local; after all, they know their city best! This week, I’m putting the spotlight on Australia native Amy Khoury, also known as the
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10 Tips from Travelers: Cinque Terre, Italy
Anytime I visit another country, I always find it helpful to get insider tips from people who actually live in that region or have travelled there. Today’s “Tips from Travelers” is all about the rainbow-colored Cinque Terre region in Italia, a chain of five fishing villages positioned along the jagged Italian Riviera coastline that together form
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15 Tips from Travelers: Santorini, Greece
Anytime I visit another country, I always find it helpful to get insider tips from people who actually live in that region or have travelled there. Today’s “Tips from Travelers” is all about Santorini, the famous Greek city by the sea with its widely recognized candy-colored houses and bright white buildings with their iconic blue domes. Yes,
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Tips from a Local: Saint Lucia
Some of the best trips happen when I meet up with friends who live in the country I’m visiting. It’s always beneficial to get authentic travel advice straight from the mouth of a local; after all, they know their city best! This week, I’m putting the spotlight on Saint Lucia native and photography extraordinaire, Royan
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10 Tips to Surviving a Road Trip Together
WATCH THE VIDEO AND CONTINUE READING BELOW: Road trips with your significant other should be fun—not frustrating. Being confined to a car together for hours at a time, however, can either bring a couple closer or run them over. Follow these road trip romance tips to help you and your lover avoid any bumps in
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Shopping in India: 10 Gift Ideas and Bargaining Tips
So you’re going to India. All your friends and family are excited and pressuring you to bring a piece of India back to them. You could buy a keychain from the airport, but that’s just lazy. You’re going to the land of infinite variety and every shopaholic’s personal paradise! So you really have no excuse
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India Survival Guide: 10 Tips and Lessons Learned the Hard Way
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” ~Zig Ziglar India is an incredible country to explore (and I’m not just saying this because my mother was born there). For me, it was certainly the adventure of a lifetime, with its lush vistas and fascinating culture, but I would be sugarcoating my
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Travel Guide: 5 Days in Rome, Italy
Italia. There is no place quite like it! During a business trip to Barcelona, Spain, my sister and I decided to extend our European experience and spend some time in Italy—five nights to be exact. For five whole days, we stuffed our faces with gelato, filled our suitcases with new clothes we probably didn’t need,
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Translation Apps
There comes a time during your vacation when you don’t know what the hell anyone is saying. You can choose to check out (which works on occasion) or find a way to muddle through. Choosing to check out can be very relaxing. You sit by the beach, read a book and enjoy your time away.
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Currency Exchange
I am a traveler. I am not a math whiz. Thankfully, there’s an app for that. One of the most difficult things about traveling is determining how much money you’re spending. People spend extended amounts of time trying to figure out just how much money they are spending, and hold up lines while they figure