There are two major components of a vacation that tend to take the bulk of a budget - the accommodations and the traveling expenses.  Staying close to home or at least within driving distance can help to cut down on the bottom line, but there are other ways to enjoy some of the best vacations in the world at rock bottom prices. Stay really, really, really close to home. The first thing you will have to determine is just what you consider cheap.  A $5000 getaway may seem ... read more

Anyone who has sat through a slideshow of utterly lame pictures of family and friends on the beach, all looking horribly burned and/or way, way fatter than you remember, will appreciate a good travel book when they read one. Holidays. Fun. Sometimes With summer a few months away and most of us clinging on to work through the spring months as we await our precious two-week breaks, now is the ideal time to hunker down with a great travel novel and live vicariously through the pens of the ... read more

Anyone that has ever travelled through more than one time zone has likely experienced jetlag.  Your body struggles to adapt to the change in time and you might find yourself miserable during this process.  Everyone experiences jetlag differently. Some people have very little trouble adjusting while others struggle for multiple days.  During this time a person can experience a number of symptoms related to jetlag. The symptoms can be rather frustrating. Flying rocks, but jet lag is terrible - can it make you ill? Say you fly from New York ... read more

‘The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.’ - Anthony Price My dad used to travel from London to Geneva and back the next day, three times a month. He kept this up for a year. Upon his return, I would stare into his eyes and realise that some part of him, some fundamental, happy part, had died forever. It wasn’t the work he had to do when he got there, it was the getting there that got him. The word ‘ashen’ springs to mind. ... read more