Holiday time means travel. For a lot of people, particularly families, the holidays may be the only time of year they travel, so let’s just say they aren’t exactly experts at getting from point A to B. (With half...
Travel Tips: How to Plan For A Long Trip
I had someone recently ask me what my trip routine is and how I plan for a long trip. Someone else recently shared that I should share more about me, so I decided to write this post on...
Wild Camping – Top Spots and How to Make the Most of Them
Thought glamping was the coolest way to camp? Well, you’d be wrong. Wild camping is the new way to see the great outdoors, and it’s the polar opposite of its more bourgeois cousin. Wild camping is roughing it par...
Context Travel – 10 Years of Exceptional Curated Tours Around the World
I am a big fan of Context Travel. I have done tours with them in Paris and London, all of them exceptional. And I’ve already schedule a few more for my upcoming trip to Paris in June which I...
Travel Tip Thursday – How to travel Europe on a budget
Whether you’re planning to take a gap year after studying and have very little to spend, or you’d just like to take a break without breaking the bank, travelling around Europe is a fantastic experience that can most definitely...
Travel Tip – Airplane Health Tips
I have been on a lot of airplanes recently. A lot. So I thought I would share a few tips for trying to stay healthy while being trapped in one of these germs tubes. That way you may actually...
Travel Tip – Traveling With a Pet: What You Need to Know
Everyone deserves to hop on a plane and go exploring. But if you’re a pet owner who is itching to travel, it can be difficult—not to mention a big hassle—to secure space for your dog at a local kennel...
Travel Tip – Pointers on Using Starwood Hotel Points
Wherever I travel in the world my preferred choice for hotels is Starwood hotels within the Starwood Group. (Next comes Relais Chateau. They happily co-exists as most of the time the locations for a Relais Chateau property are unique...
Travel Tip: Traveling with Contact Lenses
An important tenet in my life is efficiency and convenience. I don’t like to shop so I do huge shopping trips when forced to or I shop online. I maximize my efforts in whatever I do. This is even...
Travel Tip – Language Help with Notecards
A comment left on this past week’s J’adore #16 regarding the hilarious napkin for cabbies, reminded me of another travel tip to share. When I was in Suzhou for nine weeks I sometimes found myself either alone or in...
Travel Tip – Take photos!
Here is a tip I learned the hard way. Take photos of the name of every restaurant you eat in when you travel. Not only will it help you remember the name of that great little cafe in Rome...
Travel Tip – Location-based coupons
If you use social media, whether it is Facebook, Twitter or you write a blog, it is likely you have seen many of the location-based applications such as Whrrl, Gowalla, or FourSquare. It’s not just about checking in, it...