Instead of letting the kids watch DVDs during your next road trip, use those long hours in the car to sharpen their minds.
That’s the advice from Dr. Katherine Wiesendanger, an education professor at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. She offers these tips for turning those mindless hours in the car to mind-sharpening opportunities.
Official Navigator
No minivan sallying forth to vacation wonderlands can arrive without a designated navigator. Why not appoint your child to the post? An official trip navigator’s title and duties are a great way to reinforce map reading, mathematics and geography skills. (more…)
Not all airfares are the same. Some are considerably more expensive than others. Low fare airline tickets are the desire of every traveller that flies. Become one of the few who save big bucks every time you fly! Airlines are cutting some selected airfares down but we don’t have enough money to buy the tickets. The question is: how to book budget flight? It is easy. Or at least you can save a lot when you read these easy tips.
The easiest option of travel today is via flights, it’s comfortable, affordable and hassle free. First advice is quite clear – book your airline tickets in advance. Tickets are usually cheaper when you book them long enough in advance. You should also travel on less loaded days. The cheapest days are usually Tuesdays and Thursdays. Airlines have lower fares and flights are cheaper. Good for us! If you travel with group, some airlines (even low cost airlines) offer some kind of sale – e.g. 4+1 or 10% discount for groups.
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Today’s traveller has many needs. Among the many needs are travel clocks. These clocks are necessary for obvious reasons even in the day and age of hotel wake up calls. A travel alarm clock is a kinder gentler way to be awakened than the excessively loud hotel room telephones.
Travel clocks now come in all kinds of shapes and sizes so that you can bring them with you and have a little display of personality or a small taste of home. Travel clocks can also offer a method of you keeping your time when traveling rather than relying on the hotel services which are on local time for the area in which you are traveling. (more…)