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Flying Issues—How To Deal With Them

Stuck on a crowded airplane for a long trip? Kids around you screaming, an obese person next to you enveloping you and your seat, and with no way for you to get up to reach your “stuff” in the overhead compart­ment, let alone to make a trip to the restroom? Feeling trapped and claustrophobic because [...]

ATM Costs Around The World – What Banks Really Charge

This is the next article on hidden costs we started last month. This time, we’re discussing costs of using ATM (Automated teller machine). And, as we have mentioned here a number of times, that probably is the cheapest way for a traveler to obtain currency in another country, by accessing it via an ATM [...]

The High And Often Hidden Costs Of “Wired” Currency Transfers

Money, “you can’t get there without it” when traveling. As it turns out, you can’t even just send money “there” without it costing significantly more money, because we are charged through the nose for the privilege of wiring currency. As it turns out, sometimes, this is often on both ends.

Bank of America and Lloyds [...]

EXCHANGE RATE LOCATIONS –The Woes of Finding Those “Money Trees”

Gargoyle at the tower of Notre Dame de Paris France – Courtesy of Wiki-media Commons

Having trouble finding a place to exchange money when you travel? Have you arrived in another country only to wonder what you were going to do for local currency, where to go to get it?  Have you stood [...]

Travel Warnings And Alerts For Travelers: Don’t Beware – Just Be Aware

Travel warnings and alerts; these are not something the average traveler is usually very aware of, except in the most obvious of instances. We all know, for example, that Iraq and Afghanistan are not safe places for travelers these days. Sudan, Iran, and Somalia are not, either. But how many other [...]