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Inspiration for where to travel with children

Scuba for kids ?

CAM with dive gear just before check-out dive. SCUBA stands for “Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus”. You may think of it as primarily an adult activity, but there are programs available to learn how to use scuba equipment for children as young as eight years old. Dive shacks are like mushrooms around most beach resorts Read the Rest…

If you’re wondering where to go or what to do on your next trip…

Then check out “A Year of Adventures” by Andrew Bain. This Lonely Planet book is a delight for any traveller who’s (temporarily) at home. The author takes a week-by-week, month-by-month approach to introducing fun, novel, exciting and sometimes challenging places to go and things to do worldwide. There’s definitely some things he mentions which I Read the Rest…

The Farecast Take on Airfare Seasonality

If you are the person responsible for travel planning in your household, you may have already discovered “smart” travel search websites like Farecast.com or Kayak.com. These sites are not online booking engines. Instead, they help users find the best available option for flights, car rentals and hotels by searching across many other websites (the technical Read the Rest…

Whoo-hoo! I scored a $0.01 airfare!

So we’ve all heard about “low cost carriers” and the supposed super-cheap flights that you can get by using Ryanair, Easyjet or any of the other such airlines in Europe and Asia. Well, I’m stuck out here on the west coast of the US and there doesn’t seem to be any $1 or $0.01 airfares Read the Rest…