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Ever had a delay and a hard time making your connection? Most of us regular travelers have. What I didn’t realize was how tough it was if you had someone along who had a disability, or who happened to be handicapped. Now mind you, it was bad enough for me, but for him it was [...]
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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 [...]
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; 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 [...] American plastic as we know it – is it going the way of the Dodo bird, doomed soon to be extinct? It could very well be. The all-American credit card is in increasing trouble and the European-style credit card, or carte de crédit, as the French would say, is on the rise. Already, problems for [...] Rochester, NY, October 2009: Keeping its promise, Currate.com, an exclusive new website, which recently introduced the world’s first currency conversion tools with actual images of currencies, announces yet another exciting new feature. As of this October 2009, travelers will have access at Currate.com to a Google based world map where they can just point and [...] Just how do currency exchange offices make their money from providing currency exchange services? Finding the answer to this question is no easy task. In fact, it almost appears as if they don’t want the average traveler to know! Currency Exchange ATM – Courtesy of Man Vyi, Wikimedia Commons Bookmark It Hide Sites Picture Courtesy of Felix Burton, Flickr.com, Wikimedia Commons Trying to get the best deal on exchanging currencies – it seems such an ordeal! How and where does one go to do this? Well, there are plenty of suggestions “out there” on how to go about it. Unfortunately, not all of those suggestions are the [...] Traveling – we all know what that can involve – sometimes a great deal of trouble. Although often a joyful experience, traveling can include everything from hassles with luggage at airports, delayed flights, missed connections, wrong dates for hotel reservations, and so much else. Even the “smart” traveler can have such problems. London Bus and [...] Money and Mexico – it’s a place where money can cost lots of money. The exchanging of money, that is, changing your currency to the local pesos, can often be a difficult, costly, and a risky business. At times, it can even be dangerous! Bookmark It Hide Sites |
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