How to prepare for bicycle touring

5 Tips to plan a great bicycle vacation This article focus on 5 main factors to consider while planning a bicycle vacation. The tips go from equipment to itinerary planning to foods and bike set-up. HOW TO TRANSPORT THE BICYCLE Before deciding where to travel, it's important to establish how to transfer the bike. The possibilities to transfer the bicycle depend on your destination. If You travel in Europe by bike, the train is your best...

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Skiathos: A Greek Trip to Remember

My favorite vacation ever has to be my trip to the Greek island on Skiathos in the summer of 2007. It was the most amazing trip ever! I got the opportunity to take this vacation after meeting my good friend David Gerogiorgis in 2006. After becoming good friends, he told me that he take one of his good friends to this island every summer because he has a house on it.  I obviously accepted his offer and I was not disappointed. It was the...

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Travel Insurance: Travel Guard

Murphy’s Law is in full effect when traveling or on vacation. Fortunately, you can counteract it with travel insurance, and these are just a few of the coverages typically offered. Many people who travel a lot know even the most minor annoyances and problems of traveling. Luckily for them travel insurance aims to take some of the sting out of travel problems. For most travelers, they are concerned about protecting their investment and travel...

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Visitor Medical Insurance

Visitor Medical Insurance for Emergency Travel Health Coverage for International Foreign Traveler Visitor Medical Insurance, Visitor Health Insurance, Visitor Medical Coverage, Visitor Health Coverage, Visitors Health Insurance, Visitor Insurance, Visitors Medical Insurance - An overview and review of options of International Travel Medical Insurance for global visitors during overseas travel abroad to a foreign country. Visitor Medical Insurance...

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International Travel Insurance

Protect Yourself From Unexpected Delays, Cancelations and Mishaps While In Another Country Before 9/11, only about 10% of Americans purchased travel insurance. After 9/11 that number increased to about one third of American travelers. It is especially popular with those going on cruises. More than two thirds of cruise line passengers purchase international travel insurance. It provides financial coverage of the significant expense of going...

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What's a Travel Blog?

Travel writing is not a new hobby. Ever since the act of writing began, people have been writing about their travels. Works like Alexis de Tocqueville's account of a revolution-era America, Che Guevara's account of South America in the 1950s and Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism have shaped a whole genre of storytelling.  Travelblog writers take their inspiration from such innovative writers. Since the advent of the internet,...

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What About a Travel blog?

Before beginning your blog, ask yourself the simple question 'Why do I want to write this?' Do you just want to annoy your mates back at work and show them how much fun you're having at Ko Samui or do you want to offer more than that. Do you want to offer not only them but also yourself a part of you that you have kept hidden and write about the good times, the bad times and the real ugly times. I'd probably leave out the part about waking...

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Story telling and travel blogs

The next step is to pull all these tips together and write an article for your blog. Where to start? How to lay it out? How to make it interesting? One way is to storyboard your adventures. Think of each piece of your journey as an article or individual story for your blog. Together, those stories will connect to tell the whole story paint the complete picture of your travels, but they should also be able to stand as mini stories in their own...

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5 tips for writing your own Travel Blog

1. Use all five senses: You've got five God-given senses to detect the world around you, use all of them! Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. The most vivid writing comes from people who know how to describe the colours of the sunset in the Caribbean, the sound of the birds in the jungle, and the titillating sense explosion you can experience in the local food market. When you're writing, double-check to make sure you've got all of your senses...

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Trip Packing

With airlines cutting into the amount of luggage you can check and carry on, packing has become even more of an art. Here are some tips for you. Here we go again, what to pack! Here are some tips to help you tackle this part of your trip: *  The first, and most important, thing to do is make a list.  Without a list, you'll be tempted to pack everything you own, "just in case". Don't think in terms of what you might need on the trip...

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Travel Insurance

Everything you need to know about travel insurance for your next trip Travel insurance is a temporary policy used to insure travel-related risks such as trip cancellation, trip interruption, lost baggage, medical emergencies, and more. Travel insurance policies can be purchased easily online, and are generally issued via email. Every traveler should at least consider travel insurance so they are informed and aware of their risks while traveling,...

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Travel Guide to Organize Your Sicily Vacations

All info You need to Know before book a vacation package or travel independent When You think of Sicily, the ming goes to Taormina, the tourist beaches of Naxos and the mysteries of Cosa Nostra. If it is true that these two aspects belong to the Sicilian reality, it also said that they are a long way from summarize the amount of attractions in the region and its deep historical and artistic tradition and culture. Sicily has known fact in...

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