Category Archives: Hints & Tips

Useful advice on how to reduce the stresses and strains of travel.

Tesco Travel Money caution that the cost of a holiday depends on more than just the price of the flight - the cost of living at your destination counts for a lot too.
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Find out about some great travel guides available free to TripAdvisor members!
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As an expat in Switzerland I have had the good fortune to be able to explore the surrounding countries with minimal effort and expense. Lacking the backpacker instinct to use hostels, and being too cheap to stay in decent places, I have made extensive use of that most unpredictable of establishments, the budget hotel.

These days most of us rely on the internet for finding hotels, optimistically disregarding the obvious perils. When I do a search I discard anywhere with three


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For British expats living in Europe, home is no more than a weekend break away. As a result many of us have the visit home down to a fine art. At Geneva (my local) or any other European city airport you will see the weekend-away brigade rushing for their flights on a Friday evening, executive wheelie-bag in tow.

After several years of evolution the “budget” flight phenomenon now has its own complex set of unwritten rules, otherwise known as “jetiquette”. We


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Richard Dobbie describes how not to become a victim of a common travel scam.
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