Category: Preparation
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How do you pack?
When I was a kid, I would get so excited about going out of town that I would pack my bag weeks in advance. As I grow up, weeks dwindled into days, with more thought being put into what I should and shouldn’t bring. Of course, that never really stopped me from overpacking. All the…
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Google flight search
I love Google. I use Google search more than 10 times a day. One of my most used Google search feature is using define: to search for definition of words. Looking through my counter logs, I checked out some searches that lead to my site and discovered yet another nifty Google feature: Basically, you type…
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Travel plans for…2008?
Since it’s already June 1, it means that 2008 is now less than 6 months away. Which, of course, technically means that planning for 2008 travel is not that silly anymore. According to the sorry state of my finances, I am pretty much grounded for the rest of 2007. Definitely no overseas trips for me…
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How to pick a hostel
With the Internet, it’s so easy to look and book for accomodations for your trips. However it can be a double edge sword: with the rising number of hostels going online and hostel review sites up, it can get quite hard to pick which one you’ll book with. These are the things I consider when…
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Adventure Travel & Backpackers Expo
If you’re going to be in Melbourne in the next couple of days, head on to the Royal Exhibition Building at the Carlton Gardens for the 12th Adventure Travel & Backpackers Expo. The Expo is the fun and festive way to find out where to go for the time of your life -around Australia and…
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Is it worth it?
My sister forwarded me the link to the See Melbourne Card website. It looks interesting, but of course, the big question is, is it worth it? In my limited Googling, I found this verdict on a similar product, the See Sydney Card: The Verdict Thumb Down Not worth it. With the one- and three-day plans,…
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Surving your next flight
All the plane rides I’ve ridden so far have been pleasant. Maybe it’s just the optimist in me; I try to make the best out of the flight. Okay, it’s more like making the most out of my being anti-social and whipping out my book (and for future flights, Pinkies and camera) and ignoring the…
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One last thing…
I don’t know how strict they are the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, but the airport security personnel at the domestic terminal of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport were very strict.
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Budget Travel Magazine
I’ve seen this magazine at Borders in Singapore, but I was unable to go back to buy it (because I’ve used up all my money shopping). I scoured the magazine shops in Manila, but I don’t think I ever saw this locally (or if I had, I must have been broke when I came across…