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Lonely Planet's Tom Hall will be live online tomorrow from 1-2pm answering your travel queries. Post your questions for him below
Planning a late spring getaway in search of much-needed early summer sunshine? Maybe you're taking advantage of the extra bank holiday or starting to plan your summer. Need advice on a specific destination, how to get there or where to stay? Tom Hall will be live on Guardian Travel tomorrow offering expert advice. Post questions below in advance or on the day.
Tom will get to as many as he can in an hour, but due to the volume of questions, he may not be able to answer all of them in the live blog. Unanswered questions will be considered for future Ask Tom blog posts.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/blog/2011/mar/29/asktom-blogpost
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Lonely Planet's Tom Hall will be live online tomorrow from 1-2pm answering your travel queries. Post your questions for him below
Planning a late spring getaway in search of much-needed early summer sunshine? Maybe you're taking advantage of the extra bank holiday or starting to plan your summer. Need advice on a specific destination, how to get there or where to stay? Tom Hall will be live on Guardian Travel tomorrow offering expert advice. Post questions below in advance or on the day.
Tom will get to as many as he can in an hour, but due to the volume of questions, he may not be able to answer all of them in the live blog. Unanswered questions will be considered for future Ask Tom blog posts.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/blog/2011/mar/29/asktom-blogpost
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Greetings faithful readers and avid travelers! I have a special treat for you this month. As my travels have kept me particularly busy during the past few months, I?ve decided to hand over the blog to a special guest?
Recently I received a warm email from another travel-blogger named Sarah. She wrote to me and explained that she enjoys reading my Blog and asked if maybe I wouldn?t mind letting her guest post sometime. Well, I don?t mind at all! I have learned a lot from reading her blog, and I thought now would be the perfect opportunity for me to get you acquainted with her thoughts. I mean, no one has done and seen it all, right? I only sit here, writing from my little ivory tower and it certainly does not hurt to bring a fresh perspective into the discussion?
Sarah maintains her impressive travel blog over at the ?My Backpacking Buddies? site: http://www.mybackpackingbuddies.com/blogs/. I recommend checking it out whenever you can. Her entry that follows details a little known, but well worth the effort, ?off the beaten track? route to Machu Picchu. Since Machu Picchu is the most popular destination for tourists/travelers in all of South America, it?s great to have an alternate, more unique, not to mention more scenic, route there. ?The road less traveled?? as they say.
Sarah?s recommendation (see below) looks enticing. I?m very well going to try and check it out next time I?m en route to Machu Picchu!
Keep on traveling,
Bart
The following entry was written by Sarah from My Backpacking Buddies Blog at http://www.mybackpackingbuddies.com/blogs/.
Taking the long way to Machu Picchu.
I have a tip to share with you about a slow but beautiful way to reach
I'm talking about a three days trek that was built by an Israeli tourist and if you choose to believe the reports of people that have done it, is the most beautiful way to travel there, and it is relatively cheap as well.
Here?s what you need to do:
1. Take the bus from Cusco to Santa Maria ? it is a 5.5 hours drive ? last bus is at 21:30.
2. From
3. Find the railroads and very carefully walk for 200 meters until you see a sign telling you to climb the stairs. If you miss it you might find yourself at the Jungle so stay focused. After 6 minutes climbing you reach another railroads.
4. Walk along the railroads for 3 hours (
5. It is already afternoon so you can climb to Machu Picchu and return on the same road early morning or choose the option of finding a cheap hostel nearby and relax at the hot springs nearby.
6. Take the 5:30 bus to
7. Enter Machu Picchu and when you want to return you can easily walk the way back to Aguas Calientes as it is an easy walk.
8. When leaving Aguas Calientes plan to reach the last bus from Santa Teresa so you can catch the 20:00 bus to Cusco.
The trek is fun, easy, economical, and most importantly, is the most scenic route possible to Machu Picchu.
Saludos,
Sarah
Source: http://bart-cat-travel.blogspot.com/2008/08/friends-secret-path-to-machu-picchu.html
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Many will not have noticed but in recent weeks (article created April 2011) the airport car parking rates have increased at a number of airports across the UK. For Gatwick parking for example the long stay rates have increased from £9.70 to £11.50 per day, an increase of £1.80 per day. That means a weeks parking at Gatwick is almost £100 pounds.
Gatwick is not the only airport to see rises in the turn up and pay rates with the other popular London airports, Stansted and Heathrow both doing the same. A day at Heathrow is £17 per day although if staying for more then five days this is reduced to £16.40.
As the busy summer period looms, car parks know they are likely to be close to full at times and are looking to take full advantage of this after a turbulent 2010. Many of the on-airport car parks offered free additional days travel for delayed return flights and allowed cancellations of reservations effected by the volcanic ash which with the huge number of travelers effected, would have meant a sharp decrease in their parking numbers.
Even with car parking rates experiencing a high period there are several ways around this, firstly, booking in advance. Sites such as airport parking offer pre-booking discounts with rates for the official car parks, often as much as 60%, a huge saving. Another alternative is the use of the off-airport park and rides, here you get cheaper parking for being away from the airport and catch a transfer bus to the terminal, here you can often knock off an extra £10 from the official on-airport long stay prices.
Source: http://www.itravelabout.com/the-increasing-price-of-uk-airport-parking
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I've been home for about 2 months now, sorry for the lack of updates. My intentions for this blog have wandered many times, and my focus has been lost.
Since I have been back the normal family and friends things have happened, but also something important has happened.
A family member has become unwell. This family member has also just had serious surgery and requires care and help from the family.
I am so glad I am home to help. I am close to this family member, and it has become an important part of my everyday to see them and help them.
Their decline in help was not foreseen, and was not any of the reasons I returned home.
But being back home has become vital for now.
Travel plans continue to swirl in my head, but they do not even reach the draft stage. They are just ideas.
Source: http://www.itravelabout.com/blog/darren/the-importance-of-being-at-home
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Hi there friends and fellow travelers,
It has been a while since we last met; I have been rather busy lately? (Yes, with the CRISIS.) Grrrr, what a gloomy word. There?s truth to it for sure and things are changing as we speak, but some of this ?crisis? is also inflated by the media to such a towering extent that sometimes I open the newspapers and feel the world has come to a full standstill and there is no way back or forth. There basically seems to be no other remedy than hide in our cellars and hope for a miracle to get us out of this mess. (Or that is what the media want us to believe because they are actually making money of this...)
I want to share with you two thoughts that I think are relevant in times like these. One is about the phenomena known as the ?self-fulfilling prophecy? and the other is about the real face of this crisis.
The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of the Argentine Economy
Here in Argentina the local economy has developed a pretty strange tendency; it crashes around every 7 years, like really hard, then rapidly recovers, returns to pre-crash levels in no-time, overheats in a blink and then falls flat on its face before anyone notices (well, most people at least), only to roll over and begin the same process again. It seems we are following a somewhat biblical routine here, which has now become commonplace in Argentine society. So much has this jittery economic movement taken place in the hearts and minds of most Argentines that pre-crash capital flights caused by those fearing the next hit basically cause it to happen. The circle has become complete and everyone?s worst fears come true over and over again because hardly anyone here still believes that things could go any differently. The idea of economic stability is simply not logged into people?s minds here and therefore nobody will give that thought and -thus that potential reality- a chance. I will not go into the theories about this actually being a controlled economic movement; anyone who has been here for more than a week can come to their own conclusions. What I want to say is this: if you allow yourself to give away control over your life to your biggest fears, they will eventually take over and that what you dread the most will become your reality. It is as simple as that.
The Real Face of the Crisis
As you can see on our sites, we are a proud ASTA (American Society of Travel Agents) member and yesterday I read an interesting article in ASTA?s Smartbrief, based on a lecture given by World Leisure Partners? Chairman and CEO Adam Aron that I want to share with you. To me his speech was:
� Inspiring, because it confirmed my belief that in times like these, when the going gets tough, it is positive, pro-activeness that will pull you through. These are challenging times, sure, but when did anyone decide that a good challenge should be backed away from? I mean, these are the times we can really prove ourselves, focus on doing our absolute best and showing ourselves and the outside world what we are; a company with vision, a team with heart, a continent with passion, a place to recharge your batteries.
� Relieving, because after having read so much negative, sad and sorry stories about banks sliding, companies going bankrupt, people being laid off by the thousands and international travel bookings going down (which is of course the only thing that really interests us here!), for a moment I almost believed them, the commercial journalists that will prey on anything that smells like ?crisis? these days, as that seems to be the only thing anyone wants to read about. To my great dismay, because even though I am reading about it as much as I can myself, I am constantly looking for positive signals, stuff I can use to help navigate our little company through the so-called storm. The mainstream media, however, seem to want us to wallow in distress for a little while longer. That is why it was a relief to read Mr. Aron?s take on things.
� Reassuring as it put me back in the driver?s seat of my reality, where I almost thought I had no control anymore, almost felt as if we were going to slide like everybody else and would need a miracle to be saved? BS my friends, really, and pardon my French, but we are in charge of our lives, or our work, of our reality and there are tons and tons of things we can do to take this situation and make it work for us.
Let me give you a short excerpt of what Mr. Aron said: (here goes the condensed version of the text I just sent you)
In this era of 24/7 news cycles, the current bad economic news gets magnified.
"Doom and gloom," said Aron, is what the media lives for -- so expect them to wallow in it as long as they can.
"The media will tell you that this recession will be the worst and the longest because things are different now and unlike other times, this time the doom and gloom is permanent."
He added: "In every recession that I have seen, that is always what the media says...but we always get out of it."
And they also say the boom times will never end, added Aron, recalling how a few years ago a Wall Street Journal article waxed optimistic that the business cycle had been eliminated because economists had figured it out.
There is a reason for business cycles, said Aron.
"Think about your own businesses. In the good times, we all get a little sloppy and take on more risk and don't watch pennies quite as closely as we are now."
Businesses hire more people than they really need, take risks they should not be taking and take on new costs that aren't justified.
"What happens is that fat, inefficiency, waste and risk creep into the system, because millions of businesses are doing this at the same time."
Eventually, the economy can't sustain the inefficiencies and outsized risks and "so it crashes," said Aron.
"Usually, there is a catalyst of some sort and clearly [in this cycle] the banks were lending money to people who should not have had such loans. Companies were leveraged way too much and individuals were taking on too much debt and the weight of all that crashed the system in a big way -- and quickly."
Aron recalled that last May and June everything was fine, but come September, "Armageddon was around the corner."
And just as in boom times, the actions of millions of businesses cutting costs to adjust to the downturn and consumers cutting back on spending all at the same time, threw the economy into recession.
Then at some "mystical point" after millions and millions of businesses and individuals have cut waste and costs, the economy "rises from the ashes."
The remarkable thing is that there is a simple explanation for the business cycle but you cannot predict how or when it will turn upward, said Aron.
But there have been benefits in the recent difficult times and a major one is the drop in the price of oil.
"Think of what a boon that is to the economy. Think how beneficial that is for consumers who were being stretched in July."
Aron did have a forecast: "As sure as we're sitting here, two years from now things will be rosy again" because downturns are usually six to 24 months long and good times three to six years.
Nice eh? A different and most definitely more realistic view, more pragmatic, more my way at least.
I hope I have managed to give you an idea of how I see this: we make our own reality and are capable to turn things in any direction we damn well please. Our brain is not much more than a (highly sophisticated; ok!) muscle which we train to send our body certain stimuli that make us walk, for example. Or sit behind a keyboard and write a piece of text and throw it online. Or read it. And when we read that piece of text (written by someone else for whatever reason) we have a free choice to take that information for granted or to reflect on it and make a proper decision on how it is we want to experience it, and what we want to do with it. And that in the end will greatly influence the way we live our lives? So my message to you today is this: Why don?t you put the paper aside today and get out there, play with your kids, score some goals, make some friends, have some fun, do some dancing in the rain (and look how the US Dollar is slowly gaining strength against the Argentine Peso and plan your next trip here! J). Two years from now this will all be behind us and things will be going boringly well again. For now let?s look at this crisis and make the best of it!
Thanks and may the force be with you?
Bart
Source: http://bart-cat-travel.blogspot.com/2008/11/other-side-of-coin_21.html
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