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Frank Sinatra sang “Let’s take a boat to Bermuda/let’s take a plane to St. Paul/let’s get away from it all! ” To travel is to give into wanderlust — regardless of how you define it. You may crave a wild adventure or simply want to admire mother nature from the serenity of a hammock. You may love the thrill of jumping on the subway in a gigantic city or instead dream of kayaking down a solitary river. In other words, “Let’s leave our hut, dear/Get out of our rut, dear/Let’s get away from it all.”

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Thursday, Sep 2, 2010
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SAHM v Career Girl?
Mari's World 1 day ago

Now that the girls are two I have noticed myself sometimes thinking about work and a future career but What? How? Where? and Is it the best possible option for us? Questions that keep on cropping up day in day out. But last night when the dishwasher had been packed after our dinner and we were sitting in front of the box watching CSI I realised just how exhausted I was, I was ready for bed and it wasn’t 9.30pm. Is this a twin thing or is SAHM (Stay At Home Mum) maybe more tiring than going to work? I mean, our alarm ‘Muuuuuuummmyy!’ cries out anywhere between 6 – 6.30am the same time I’d have to rise to go out to work, I spend the entire day on the go, cleaning the house, playing with the girls, house paperwork and the list goes on, I won’t bore you with the details. By the time 5pm comes, it’s teatime for the little ladies, followed by bath, dry, pyjamas, milk and bed round about 7.30pm. Then my attention turns to us, dinner needs sorting and

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Seoul Search
BuYousef.net 2 days ago

Some of my readers were expecting photos of the Lake District (Cumbria) by now, but my holiday was deferred a week and I ended up in London instead.  The reason was an unplanned business trip for an urgent negotiation in Seoul.  Work-wise the trip didn’t go as well as we had hoped; but I was glad to use the opportunity to see the place. I only spent two days there, and they were enough to leave with a very positive impression of Seoul. I arrived early evening.  My first surprise was how developed the city is.  The impressively organised airport, the fantastic roads, and the above view from my hotel room.  I knew Korea is developed, but my ignorance of how developed it really is evaporated within the first hour.  I didn’t have much time, but having read the Lonely Planet guide on the flight over, I couldn’t wait to step out of the hotel for a stroll. It was too late to see anything else, and I had an early morning meeting the next day.  This was a great start to the tr

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Meanderings
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In a few days I will be headed home to the UK, and I can’t wait.  The best thing is always that moment when I finally exit UK Immigration and look through the sea of faces for That One. :)   Yeah, home is really where the heart is.  I have been musing today about how little I blog while I am in Chicago, or while travelling around the States.  I seem to dive in getting my nose dirty in books and papers, catching up with friends, finding ways to bask in the new and get back in the groove of the familiar, running around doing 3,000 things.  In short, I blog less wearing my “Miss Chicago hat” than when I am on the other end of the Atlantic “missing Chicago”.  Which really makes me think whether this whole blog needs a change of direction.  I have ideas swimming in my head.  And re-packaging, and a new related blog which may involve US Immigration and Nationality laws tidbits and updates, may be forthcoming.  On a side note, I have a professional collaboration

Paris, je t'aime
Clark on a Lark

I haven’t been to Paris in a few years and I’d forgotten how lovely it is. Yes, it was a work trip so I didn’t get to go to all the tourist sites (although I did get to the major ones), but even better I got to explore the neighborhoods. That’s how I like to travel–to really SEE a city and get a feel for it. My favorite things were the quiet streets and tiny patisseries, feeling like I knew the metro and practicing my long dormant French. Least favorite things include not packing warmer clothes (with Florence sweltering I figured one light sweater would be enough. I was very wrong.), the uncharacteristically large number of sketchy men hitting on me and the fact that I spent more money on food in 2 days than I make in a week of work. I was only there for 5 days, but now I’m wondering, should Paris be my next home?

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The Taxi Problem
The Anonymous Widower

For some reason in this country outside of big cities, like London, Edinburgh, Liverpool and others, taxis don’t seem to work very well. Take where I am now and there are no local taxis, so you have to get one from either Cambridge, Newmarket or Bury St. Edmunds, which makes transport for people like me difficult. I can’t always book and this results in the sort of situation last Satrday in Bury St. Edmunds, where I couldn’t find one and had a very long walk in cold weather, which is probably not to be advised. last night, I had to get back from Whittlesford and because I wasn’t sure about what would be happening, I hadn’t firmed it up with my usual driver at Sawston Taxis.  He did know that I might be coming and I knew that he had a trip to London City Airport in the early evening.

Travel to Norway Mountains for the Perfect Break
Airlineconsolidator.com blog

Are you looking for cheap airfare to Norway for the perfect getaway? Soaring above the tree line on the Bergen Line, the railway linking Oslo to Norway’s west coast, spectacular, beautiful Finse acts as a powerful refresher for the stresses of modern life. Beside a lake in an sprawling rocky valley, it is located at the highest point on the train line, with the mighty Hardangerjokulen glacier visible on slopes to the south. During the brief thaw from the arctic conditions that prevail much of the year, “Finse City” has an enormous appeal for lovers of the great outdoors.

Delta Offers Waivers For East Coast Travel
WWJ AM

(AP Photo) It’s business as usual at Metro Airport right now — but that could change for the Labor Day weekend for the dozens of flights to the Eastern seaboard. Airlines are now offering  passengers a way to change their tickets as Hurricane Earl threatens to disrupt travel along the East Coast.  Delta said customers traveling to or through several Eastern cities could make one-time changes to their travel schedules without fees. The changes are allowed for people with flights on Thursday or Friday. The waiver covers travel to more than 20 airports, including those in the New York area, Washington, Boston, Baltimore, and Wilmington, N.C. Travelers can edit their itinerary at this link on delta.com, or you may contact Reservation Sales to make changes. Additional collection in fares may apply.  The Delta Air Lines Reservations number is 1 (800) 221-1212 for any questions affecting your air travel. Click here to check your flight status or for more information. (Copyright 20

U.S. taxpayers fund absurd 'Palestinian' ad campaign
Creeping Sharia

Taxation for Islamization continues, this time to the tune of $250,000 U.S. taxpayer dollars. Hat-tip Israel Matzav. (UPI) — Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring billboards of Palestinian officials asking: “We are partners — what about you?“ The campaign launched Sunday includes the faces of senior Palestinian Authority officials Saeb Erekat, Jibril Rajoub and Yasser Abed Rabo, and Riad Malki, Palestinian foreign affairs minister, Yedioth Aharonoth said. The aim of the campaign is to persuade Israelis that peace partners on the Palestinian side truly exist, and calls for support of a two-state solution, the Tel Aviv newspaper said. The U.S. government was approached to fund the campaign by the Geneva Initiative founders, who drew up an agreement in 2003 to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the newspaper said. The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, invested close to $250,000 toward the creation of the billboards, the news

Essential Travel Tip 4 - Packing
Essential Travel Tips

Now where do I start with this one?  Ironicially that is the same question I think of when I have to pack   Packing is one of the things that is so hard to do in my opinion.  Some of the tips are aimed at women (being that I am female), but I have tried to put them at the end 1. You can’t pack everything As much as you would like to be able to take everything with you, you can’t as there is only a certain amount of room in a backpack and only a certain amount of weight that the airlines will let you take for free and only a certain amount of weight that you can carry so you have to be selective in what you pack.   This is a difficult task, especially if you are travelling for a year! 2.  Pack and then take at least a third back out as you won’t need it or miss it Now this is a piece of advice that you will hear a lot and probably ignore as most people do   It is so hard as you pack everything you think you will need so how can you get rid of a third of it?  Well, that

Travel Warning: India
Christina Goes - Travel & Related Topics

The US Department of State issued a travel warning for India on September 1, 2010. To view the travel warning click here: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_4398.html

Earl? Fiona? Gaston?
Help! I live with my Italian mother in law!

I think these guys at the Hurricane centre have been watching too many Shrek movies and Disney cartoons. Where the heck are these names coming from??? Since the wee morning hours the ship has been rolling around the sea like a cat toy on a linoleum floor. We’re zipping or should I say swishing past Hurricane Earl again only this time instead of outrunning it we are heading towards it. Well not towards it per say because Earl is some 500 miles East of us but we are heading South and Earl is heading North. The child in me wants to press my nose up against the glass window and do one of those nah, nah, nah, nah nah sounds with my tongue sticking out and my thumbs in my ears. This bully Earl has now occupied several of my days and well it’s time to fight back damn it. But the real key here is to not drink too much orange juice for breakfast because it will start to imitate the sea in my stomach and decide to evacuate its premises. FYI: not part of today’s agenda. Going back a few days I wr

Get on the bus
Grasshopper Eyes The Potomac

My wife and I are doing something together that we have never done before. We are taking an intercity bus ride. We had heard about the super cheap new bus companies that ply the routes between New York and Washington DC, and thought that we would try one, instead of flying: with a fare from as low as $1–in our case, $13 to NYC and $28 back–it’s hard to beat. It’s a lot more convenient than flying: the time it took to get to the bus station and onto the bus was minimal, and we are already on the road, 40 minutes after leaving home. No need to worry about losing our take off slot. Apart from the low far, the amenities really attract a lot of young people, too, with free wireless Internet access and power outlets. That beats most planes hands down. The trains are just about catching up with that, but are much more expensive. Travelling by Megabus to NYC also highlighted some aspect of travel behaviour that are strange: courtesy seems to be on display everywhere. I

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Mr. A has been researching noise-cancelling headphones for our upcoming 36+ hours of flying, and I’ve been squirreling away various mini-sized bottles of potions and tonics (i.e. shampoo, etc.), and trying to strike a balance between weight and comfort in my luggage. This morning I found a great site for tiny travel things: Minimus.biz Minimus has got tiny sized bottles of all sorts of stuff, from generic to fancy-organic quality, and the prices are comparable to the mini-section in a drugstore or dollar store. They sell individual packets of things like salad dressing or hot sauce, in case you want to pack your meal to bring on the plane. They’ve got compact “flight comfort” sets, with eye masks and ear plugs, etc. And, for the minimalist survivalist types, you can buy tiny 3-day survival packs, in case of disasters while traveling. Previously I had seen this site, 3floz.com For those people who are slightly more …posh(?) than I am, 3floz.com is amazingly