Author: Kelsey
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Should You Choose Overnight or Crack-of-Dawn Flights?
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Will You Feel Better on an Overnight or Early Morning Flight? The answer to this question: is it better to fly overnight or during the day, is one that you can honestly only answer after you’ve flown a few times during each time. And honestly, until you’ve become a veteran…
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Taking the Paris Mass Transit Metro System in Paris, France
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Do You Need to Be an Expert in Paris Travel to Use the Subway/Metro System? One of the best ways to travel around Paris is by foot. You can admire so much of what this beautiful city has to offer when you have time to look at everything during a…
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Should You Tip in Italy?
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Should You Carry Around Extra Cash for Tips in Italy? In the past few years, requests for tips have proliferated throughout American society, and it’s become commonplace to see tip requests on payment screens for all sorts of businesses where tipping was never before a part of the transaction. Across…
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Do Locals Laugh at American Tourists?
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Will People of Other Nations Joke About You as an American Traveler? One of the biggest misconceptions about traveling as an American is that people of other nations will quietly snicker when they see you and laugh at how “gauche” you seem with your loud voice, constantly smiling face, and…
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Should You Take a Computer on Your Vacation?
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Should You Bring Your Work With You While You Travel? Computers, smartphones, tablets, and the internet link us to everything wherever we go, and it’s possible to take time off from work without actually leaving work. Just take your computer along, and you can work while you travel. But is…
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Traveling to a Muslim Country During Ramadan
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Should You Avoid Traveling to a Muslim Majority Country During Ramadan? Ramadan is a common religious observation of practicing Muslims. When you visit a place where the majority of citizens actively practice their faith, you may notice some significant changes in the day-to-day lives of the people during this time.…
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Can You Visit Italy If You Don’t Speak Italian?
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Can You Communicate in Italy as an English-speaking Single-Lingual? As the speaker of one language or another, one of the questions you might ask yourself when planning an international vacation is whether you’ll be able to communicate with the people you’ll interact with or whether you might need to pick…
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Which Country Should You Visit on Your First International Vacation?
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Are You an American Trying to Choose Your First International Trip? The first time you fly internationally is an exciting day, but it’s also very nerve-wracking, especially when you have to go through customs and immigration and have to have your passport on hand. Sure, it’s exciting to get your…
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Can You Drink the Water in Morocco?
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Is the Water in Morocco Safe for Travelers to Drink? When you travel to a different country, conventional wisdom suggests that you might need to take care in drinking the water because your body isn’t used to the natural microbes present in the water there. For Americans, we’re always told…
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How Much Control Do You Need Over Your Vacation Itinerary?
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Can You Just Throw Caution to the Wind and Still Have an Amazing Time Traveling? When I go on a vacation, it’s often to a destination I’ve never visited, and I always want to see as much as possible, from the food to the historical sites to the beautiful or…