Sunday, January 27, 2008

Tips for Travel with Children

Travel with Children

1.Before Departure
1.1 Use a Travel Agent.
1.2 Consult the Parents.

1.3 Not many kids
1.4 Talk to children.
1.5 Planning for sitting together on transport.
1.6 Pack a fun bag
1.7 Pack bags
1.8 Update immunizations for the entire family.
1.9 Flying with mobility aids:
1.10 Familiarize yourself with the considerations
1.11 Choose appropriate destinations
1.12 Choose the right time to travel.
1.13 Make sure that your children are ready to travel
1.14 Bring your baby-sitter or nursemaid as companions
1.15 You’re the Guardian, So Be Prepared

2.At the airport
2.1 Allow plenty of time for check-in and also between connecting flights.
2.2 Review screening procedures
2.3 Flying with mobility aids

3. On Transport

3.1 Tell the attendants your special needs and care for your children.
3.2 Help your kids with the seat belt.
3.3 Try your best to keep your children quiet and make others pleasant.
3.4 Bring a child/infant seat on board
3.5 The best coach seats to have when flying with small children are the first row in economy class.
3.6 Mobility equipment

4. Traveling by car

5. Lodging
5.1 Contact the hotel in advance
5.2 Hide away any small gadgets, or dangerous items

6. Eating

7. Traveling
7.1 Try to avoid visiting the more dangerous scenic spots
7.2 Prepare some amusing games or small activities
7.3 Avoid getting lost.
7.4 Break up the trip with frequent stops
7.5 Make a memory box
7.6 Phone Home
7.7 You Need Downtime, Too
7.8 Plan B? Call Your Agent


8. Some extra precautions
8.1 If your vacation includes a trip to a pool, ocean, water park or any other place involving water
8.2 Always bring a hat with a wide brim and sunscreen
8.3 It is important to bring along needed medications.
8.4 To prevent diseases
8.5 Create a Multi-Generational Itinerary


9. Most important





Travel with Children
Traveling with kids may be a very difficult job since children are obviously vivacious, mischievous, active, noisy, curious, easily bored... Traveling with kids requires you patience and good preparation. With the appropriate preparation, travel with children can bring you an interesting, happy and enjoyable experience. Traveling with kids must be placed on responsibilities of adults. So, whether a trip has been enjoyable or horrible is not due to the children’s fault, but completely yours. Remember that. So these tips are crucial for you to have your own experience to start travel with kids.
The tips for travel with kids is rather long since there are a lot of problems with kids that we may or may not know. For that reason, try to read the whole article and jot down on paper what you really need to know and remember.


1.Before Departure


1.1 Use a Travel Agent. Travel with kids is really a complex journey. So if you are not experienced and if you feel uneasy about planning such a complex journey on your own, turn to a trusted travel agent who specializes in family travel. A travel agent can set up a fun-filled itinerary that will motivate curiosity, encourage, exploration and knowledge inside children. Using a world of experience, travel agents know which cruise lines, safaris or theme parks are the most friendly to children, for your travel agent has most likely taken her own children there. Further more, travel agent set up the trip suitable for your family’s interests and budget. This is actually important. They find great deals on airfare and hotels, etc.


1.2 Consult the Parents. It is reasonable to ask children’s parents for advice if you are not their parent. It is also recommended to do so even if you are children’s grandparent. Talking with your kid’s parents is totally essential in planning a successful trip since parents are the best persons who know their own children’s favorite activities and subjects, along with their sleeping and eating habits.





1.3 Not many kids – Since a child’s energy level escalates exponentially with each additional child in the room, it’s wise take no more than two children to travel with you at a time, or even just one. Especially if you are not so energetic or you are an old person, it is better to take only one child. It is more comfortable for you to take care the kid and together with him/her to enjoy nice journey.


1.4 Talk to children. It is said that children often benefit by being prepared for what they might encounter at the airport: crowds of people, the roar of airplanes taking off and landing, security procedures, and so on. Some families have found it useful to visit the airport prior to the planned date of departure. Tell them as clearly as you can about where they are going to go, what there are for them to enjoy and even what difficult things which they may encounter are. Let them understand that you are trying to make them a good journey and require them to make good “co-operation” during the trip. And you should let them know how long they will be living out of their houses because they are, however, used to living in theirs. Some experts say that it works well if they know in advance about the activities, maps and pictures of the destination. Because they have some knowledge of the place where they are going to arrive, they will be eager to take the journey and discover themselves the differences between what they have thought of through pictures and what they have seen in the trip. Then do not forget to ask children if they want to see the world with you. Finding ways for children to contribute their opinions in the vacation planning process can help to assure that arranged activities are appropriate for their interests, hobies and abilities.


1.5 Planning for sitting together on transport. Remember this when making reservations and purchasing tickets. After making flight reservations, confirm seating assignments to make sure that all of you and the kids can sit together. Getting your seat assignment in advance can help ensure families are seated together and that children and adults will be seated next to each other. If a flight is full of passengers and obtaining seat assignments in advance is not a possibility, advise the airline personnel at the airport. The airline may need to ask other passengers to exchange seats so that children are not seated apart from you and companies. It is wiser to make reservations one month before departure.





1.6 Pack a fun bag: Assemble a bag for each child containing stickers, paper and washable markers, figurines (that don't have a lot of pieces), magnetic games and puzzles, and a pillow. If you use these particular bags for trips only, they'll remain novel, and kids will look forward to the journey.


1.7 Pack bags: Pack your luggage well. Do not forget the things especially used for your children including necessary clothes, food (some snacks and socks), toys, feeding-bottle (for infant) and a first-aid kit where some day to day medicines to deal with minor mishaps. Let kids pack their own bags. Decide what type of clothing (preferably loose and comfortable), but allow them to choose their favorites and to pack a special toy. In a carry-on bag, pack some hard candies and gum, hand wipes, tissues, books, paper, markers in a small, tightly sealed plastic bag and perhaps a surprise toy for each child. Read more: What you need in your luggage before travel?


1.8 Update immunizations for the entire family. If traveling abroad, check with public health authorities for advisable additional vaccines. Depending on the destination and duration of stay, the following immunizations may be recommended (although some cannot be given to infants and young children):
» Hepatitis B vaccine » Typhoid vaccine
» Hepatitis A vaccine » Immune globulin
» Yellow Fever vaccine » Japanese B Encephalitis vaccine
» Meningococcal vaccine » Rabies vaccine


1.9 Flying with mobility aids:
Flying with mobility aids: Patience and preparation are the best tools for ensuring a safe and pleasant trip with children who use mobility equipment. When making reservations, inform airline representatives of the type of mobility aid a child or teenager uses. Ask about the airline's policies and procedures for handling mobility aids. Procedures vary from airline to airline, and it is important for parents to know how to prepare for the trip and what will typically happen to the equipment.

Flying with mobility aids: Foldable manual wheelchairs and other easy-to-store mobility aids can usually be stowed in the closets or other spaces on the aircraft. If the flight is crowded, however, these may be stored in the cargo hold, or belly, of the plane.
Flying with mobility aids: Flying with a power wheelchair or scooter presents unique challenges and requires extra consideration by both families and airlines. This discussion should begin when reservations are made. Know the dimensions of your child's chair; its height determines whether it can be transported in an upright position in the airplane's cargo hold or if it must be disassembled. It is also important to specify whether the chair uses wet-cell or gel batteries, as this will determine whether the batteries will be removed prior to shipment.
Flying with mobility aids: Families traveling with power chairs or scooters should try to give the airline 48 hours advance notice and arrive at the airport a minimum of one hour prior to the scheduled time of departure, so the ground crew will have time to properly prepare the equipment for shipment. Before leaving for the airport, label the chair with the type of battery it uses and attach a copy of the manufacturer's written instructions for disassembly and reassembly. These instructions are helpful to ground crews at both departure and destination points.


1.10 Familiarize yourself with the considerations that apply in respect of children when traveling, including the visa, passport, preferential measures and discounts on varied transport fares as well as the admission fees of the scenic spots.


1.11 Choose appropriate destinations that are suitable for both you and your children to visit. The informative, educational and instructive showplaces that are full of history, culture and art may widen your children's field of vision and enhance their knowledge. Try to find information or collect some material related to your destination and introduce them to your children, which may establish a good background for your kids to understand and enjoy the coming trip. Make a reasonable itinerary for your travel. Children lack the physical strength of adults, so your routes should not be very grueling or too long. Make your journey scheduling as flexible and relaxed as possible to ease pressure on your kids.


1.12 Choose the right time to travel. Children tend to be active and adventurous so it is vital that you are able to exercise the right level of control over them. Infants may cause much more trouble. So an appropriate time to set out is very important. Try to select a time when children may sleep in transit. This will ensure not only your peace of mind but also that of fellow travelers.


1.13 Make sure that your children are ready to travel if there are problems, follow the doctor's advice. If your trip is going to include physical activity, such as a fair amount of walking, practice before hand is recommended. Make sure that you have adequate health and travel insurances for your children. Before traveling with your children for an entire week or two, discover how you all travel together by taking a day trip or have them stay over for a weekend. If this short trip is more sour than sweet, maybe your children are not ready for a longer journey away from home. If that’s the case, don’t give up. Simply take more and more day trips until the group learns to have fun together.


1.14 Bring your baby-sitter or nursemaid as companions: If possible, bring your baby-sitter or nursemaid as companions to travel together with your family. They may be the very persons best suited to look after your children and so lessen any problems.


1.15 You’re the Guardian, So Be Prepared – One lesson travel agents teach over and over again is to always have proper identification and medical histories wherever you go, for emergencies enjoy being unpredictable. During the vacation, it is undoubted that you are totally responsible for the children, so make sure you have their proper identification, health insurance, contact information, recent photos and notarized authorization from their parents in case they need medical attention. All identifying documents for the children should comply with the latest federal requirements for passports and other entry/exit documents. Also, it’s your job to know their medications and dietary needs backwards and forwards. Finally, some countries do not allow entry of minors not accompanied by both parents unless the children have written, notarized permission from the absent parents. The rules vary from country to country, so consult your travel agent before your trip.
If you are old, read more: Tips for old travelers



2.At the airport




2.1 Allow plenty of time for check-in and also between connecting flights. Arriving early to board together prevents last minute delays and confusion, especially with the new security regulations. Be sure to have a safety plan in case anyone gets separated at the airport.


2.2 Review screening procedures with children before entering security checkpoints so they will not be frightened by the process. Every person, including children and babies, must undergo screening at security checkpoints. Also, all child-related equipment must go through the X-ray machine. To speed the process along, remove children from their strollers/infant carriers and collapse/fold the equipment so it may be examined or put through the machine. When going through metal detectors, with an infant, have one parent hold the baby and walk through the machine. Do not hand off the baby under the detector, or hand the baby to the screener to hold. Children who can walk should go through the metal detector independently. For older children, it is important to stress that the process should be taken seriously and that threats made even as a joke could result in law enforcement being summoned.


2.3 Flying with mobility aids
Flying with mobility aids When reaching the security check on the way to the gate, parents may request a private security check. A security officer will accompany the family to another room where he or she will inspect their luggage and the equipment. Many families find these private security checks less stressful than leaving bags waiting on the conveyor belt, with a line of impatient people forming behind, while a parent holds the child with a disability as the security officer inspects the wheelchair.
Flying with mobility aids At the gate, parents should receive a baggage claim tag for the equipment. Then they can wheel the child to the end of the jetway, where airline personnel will help transfer the child to an aisle chair.
Flying with mobility aids At that point, the airline's ground crew will begin preparing the chair for shipment. If the wheelchair uses a spillable wet-cell battery and cannot be stored in an upright position, Department of Transportation (DOT) rules require its removal and storage in an approved battery box. The acid-like substance in a wet-cell battery is considered hazardous material, and a spill could create a problem.


3. On Transport


3.1 Tell the attendants your special needs and care for your children. Make sure you have already booked the train/air tickets especially for your child at the required price. Contact the airport, airlines, or train stations as early as possible to tell the attendants your special needs and care for your children, so that they can make any relevant preparation in advance.


3.2 Help your kids with the seat belt. On the plane, train or other transport vehicles, help your kids with the seat belt (infant should be held and carried in your arms or fixed on a special seating). Do not ever let them wander in the cabin or compartment to prevent possible injury or discomfort to other passengers.


3.3 Try your best to keep your children quiet and make others pleasant. So in order to make them pay their attention and to make them not disturb others, let them read books, listen to stories, play their favorite simple toys and provide them with refreshment as appropriate. Bring bottled water to drink and lotion to apply to skin to rehydrate during the dry flight; gum, pacifiers and bottles to reduce air pressure on the children's ears; and a variety of toys in carry-on bags to keep the child's interest.


3.4 Bring a child/infant seat on board that meets current safety standards and is not more than 16 inches wide. It is recommended that children weighing less than 40 pounds be placed in child/infant seats.


3.5 The best coach seats to have when flying with small children are the first row in economy class. There's a lot of legroom when the kids get cranky from the long flight. If the front row seats are not available, place children away from the aisle, preferably between responsible adults. Also, remember to let them get up, stretch and walk around with you regularly during the flight, but do not allow children to walk around unsupervised.





3.6 Mobility equipment: At your destination, the mobility equipment should be waiting by the time all passengers have disembarked. If disassembled for transport, it should be reassembled with the battery attached. All mobility aids must be returned in their original condition.


4. Traveling by car
Make it comfortable by bringing pillows and blankets. Stop frequently at rest stops to stretch and make use of restrooms. Play games like "I Spy.” Make sure the car is stocked with paper, pencils, plenty of engaging toys and tapes or CDs of their favorite songs or books. Most importantly, keep children involved in the vacation process. Save everything collected on vacation - brochures, napkins, ticket stubs - and have children paste them into a scrapbook.
Plan ahead with the rental company to make sure they offer car seats and installation. If not, you'll have to bring your own in addition to a collapsible stroller. If nothing else, a simple call to the rental car company may save you the hassle of bringing along one extra piece of equipment.


5. Lodging


5.1 Contact the hotel in advance to ascertain the general condition of the guest room. Make sure all the facilities are accessible for your children's use. If necessary, ask the hotel reception to arrange for special needs such as an extra bed or crib as well as the availability of child minding services.


5.2 Hide away any small gadgets, or dangerous items that may harm your children. Be conversant with the hotel emergence procedures in the event of fire, etc.
Put safety first by avoiding a myriad of possible accidents. Bring outlet protectors and make a sweep of balconies and bathrooms for any potential dangers. Hide away small objects, accessible medications and cleaners children could get their hands on. Familiarize yourself with the hotel’s fire and emergency evacuation routes and procedures.


6. Eating

When traveling, especially when traveling abroad there will be a change in diet. Children may not like the dishes on offer so you should consider their dietary needs with care. It is wise to ensure that they avoid unwashed fruit and the like as well as uncooked food and that you take all reasonable care to avoid stomach upsets.


7. Traveling


7.1 Try to avoid visiting the more dangerous scenic spots as mountain and cliff footpaths, water in all its forms and areas such as jungle all present hazards. Pay much attention to your children's movements. Keep them under your control and in view at all times.


7.2 Prepare some amusing games or small activities which may add some interest during trips and thus keep your children occupied.


7.3 Avoid getting lost. Do not let them go out alone. Since tourist destinations are usually unfamiliar to you, accompany your children at all times as this is much safer. It is recommended that your children carry a note of your name, telephone and address in their pocket in case they do get separated from you or become lost.


7.4 Break up the trip with frequent stops Playgrounds, indoor fun centers, and family restaurants are good bets. AT&T Wireless even offers new M-Mode cell phone services that let customers access the locations of nearby fast-food restaurants, movie schedules, restaurant reviews, directions and even weather reports.


7.5 Make a memory box Bring an empty shoebox along to store items you'll collect along the way, such as seashells, rocks, funny postcards, and marked-up road maps. When you get home, label the box with the trip destination and date, and you'll have a great souvenir of your time together. This stimulate kids a lot and help them like the travel.


7.6 Phone Home – An effective way to alleviate homesickness is to make periodic phone calls to the other members at home (or to their parents if you are not their parents) and let the kids gush about the day’s exciting adventures. The others (or their parents) will feel better knowing their children are in good hands, and you’ll feel better listening to the kids rave about the activities you planned.


7.7 You Need Downtime, Too – Many places provide supervised activities for kids. If the resort or cruise offers these, take them up on that offer and get some much-needed rest.


7.8 Plan B? Call Your Agent When life serves you lemons, your travel agent has a lemon squeezer, clean glasses and a bucket of ice. Many unforeseen factors—an illness, hurricanes, unscheduled closings—can dampen a vacation, no matter how thoroughly it was planned. When one of these occasions arises, stay positive, pull your travel agent’s card out of your purse and give her a call. A travel agent has Plans B-through-Z at her fingertips.


8. Some extra precautions


8.1 If your vacation includes a trip to a pool, ocean, water park or any other place involving water, the number one rule is to never let children venture off alone. Even if they know how to swim, children should wear a life jacket at all times. Also, it is important to know what is in the water, such as chemicals or jellyfish. Very cold temperatures, currents, and sudden drop-offs are all things to avoid, especially with children.


8.2 Always bring a hat with a wide brim and sunscreen of at least 30 SPF to shield children’s skin from the sun's harmful rays. Sun poisoning can ruin any vacation.


8.3 It is important to bring along needed medications. Diarrhea treatments (although these should not be given to very young children), pain relievers, insect repellants, antihistamines and adhesive bandages are good staples. Consult your doctor about “over the counter” remedies before using them. Bringing a doctor's number, even if traveling to a foreign country, is a good idea, as well.


8.4 To prevent diseases spread by drinking contaminated water, use only bottled or boiled water to mix formula and juices, or simply go with pre-mixed liquid formula whenever possible, if an infant is not being nursed.


8.5 Create a Multi-Generational Itinerary – Too often seniors plan activities to solely please the children, running themselves ragged to keep the trip in a high gear of constant fun. But if you become unhappy, the kids will soon follow. A travel agent will help you craft an itinerary that appeals to both generations, paying special attention to natural attractions, like mountains and canyons, and historical sites, like lost temples and medieval castles.



9. MOST IMPORTANTLY...


Stay in a good sense of humor during the trip to give your children a vacation to remember in spite of any unforeseen obstacles.
Have a nice trip with kids.





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Monday, January 21, 2008

Strange custom and regulations of the destination may spoil your vacation. Be careful!

Strange custom and regulations of the destination may spoil your vacation. Be careful!

Custom and regulations need be cared before traveling. Not paying attention to it may spoil your vacation. Some countries’ custom or regulations are so strange enough to you that you may break the regulations and then be fined or may be sent to jail. Belows are some examples:

Australia:

This is a country strong at traveling services; however, tourists may be in big trouble if they have clothes or hats with feather sticked on. Clothes or hats which are made of bamboo, palm… All of them are confiscated. If you try to hide them and then they are found, you may go to jail. For best vacation, you’d better leave such things home.

Singapore:

This is a very fantastic place to visit in the South East Asia. It is not such a very fantastic place at all when you use chewing-gum and spit out in the street though. You may be fined up to 1000 EUR and you have to do the social work for 12 hours. If you argue, you may be sentenced to the lash.

Dubai - Arab:


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When travel there, you should not take anodyne or anesthetic drugs. If you are found to have them, you may live in jail for 4 crazy years. If you are about to use these kinds of medicine, you’d better have doctor’s medical prescription.


Chypre:


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Do not wave your hand (with all five fingers of a hand) to greet somebody in Chypre especially in the north of Chypre! This action does not mean “hi” or “hello” there, it actually mean that “I call you down curses upon you till five generations later.” – Amazed?

Turkey:

Do not buy anything antique there eventhough it is only a pebble. It might become national heritage or something like that and then you may be fined EUR 9000 or may be sent to jail and enjoy your hard time there for 5 or 10 years. You do not deserve that though.

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What you need in your luggage before travel?
Tips for old travelers

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Tips for old travelers

Tips for old travelers.

By Edwin (shareknowledges.blogspot.com)


Old people travel. The old people should take these tips when traveling. These advices for old men and old ladies traveling are fairly important. The article even concerns some avoidable things to make old people feel comfortable in their trips, vacations and holidays. These notes should be known by old people when traveling or by those who travel with the old people (their grand parents, grand-mother, grand-father)

Tips for old travelers
Old people enjoy their trip.

1. The trip style must be suitable for old people. Before accepting to pay for the trip tickets, it is highly recommened to ask whether or not the trip suits old people and their states of health. The short-time journey is better. It should be less than 5 days. Sight-seeing places, famous temples, wel-known historical areas are totally suitable. And the trip should be relavant to a sick leave. The destination must be a place with fresh air and an unpolutted spot. Avoid any tours with races, claiming mountains, camping outside, swimming. It is absolutely good to have a slow-speed trip. . The tours included in the trip should not be so long, even the length of time on bus should not be long as well. And the tours should be designed in the way not to let old people walk so much

2. No good health no trip. Old people take the trip when they are in good state of health. Before taking the trip, old people, however, should take some health care and toothcare. If not good, the trip should be delayed or postponed for treatment. After treatment, they can go provided that their doctors allow them to do.

3. Drugs are extremely important. Old people, especially those who have heart disease, high-blood pressure and diabetes are highly recommended to be allowed to take the trip by doctors who are taking care of their healths. Ask for drugs should take along the trip. It is good to measure blood pressure and blood sugar everyday in the trip time. Do not neglect those things although the trip is such an interesting. Daily-used drugs should be taken on time and sufficiently as usual and as well as they do when they are at home.

4. Take with you your health care documents in the trip in case there is something incidental, relavant to your health happened accidentally in the time of your trip. It is best for other doctors at the destination know clearlier your health states so that they can have immediate, suitable treatment.

5. Take good sleep before each tour. Lacking of sleep may make you worn out and exhausted. You therefore can not somehow follow the tour in a good way. Lacking of sleep easily cause some diseases. Then it spoils your trip. You should sleep two times a day. You even take some more short rest during the tour.

6. Rooms for old people should not be upstairs. With a room like that, you can easily go out and in the hotel and do activities of the trip.

7. Pay attention to the food. Food must be cooked well-done. Food is soft and with low fat. Food for protein should be digestible, for examples chicken, fish, soya-cakes. Eat light meal like porridge, soup in the evening. Between two main meals, there should be other light meals. Let the person who prepare food for the tour know about your diet. For the best, you should take prepared food from home such as Diabetcare powder, low fat milk, bread, biscuit… Eat at regular time as you do at home. Do not eat food from street venders.

8. There should be some young people in the trip for old people. This is fairly important though.

9. The luggage contains clothes for the weather of the destination (hot or cold weather). The luggage however is light – not heavy and included enough necessary drugs.

10. Take notes. The trip is interesting or not depending on the people participating in the trip. They should be friendly to make the trip become a pleasant one. Taking care of our health carefully is also a factor to make the trip cheerful and happy. If there is some place is not suitable for some old people, we should take more time to take a break and have a rest. Do not stay up so late. You should have a small note book to write down some useful information: information of tour guide and his/her cell-phone number in case you need help.

11. The changes of environment, temperature, daily activity time, food may affect the disease.

12. Tour guides and young people should not be crude to the old people. Moreover, they should be friendly, helpful to encourage old travelers to get over some difficulties they meet in the trip.

13. For a long time on bus, old people should stretch their bodies. Remember that you should not walk or stand for a long time.


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Prepare your luggage before travel

Thursday, January 17, 2008

What you need in your luggage before travel?

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Prepare for your luggage before travel. It is obvious that you do not need all of the belows. Check what you need and stuff them in your luggage.

1. Tickets should be booked six month in advance, decide where to sit (window or aisle). Cheap-ticket seats may be in the middle and at the back of the plane. First class seats are always better.

2. A hotels/resorts tickets should be booked couple of months in advance. In the holiday seasons, everything becomes rare.

3. Money. You should exchange a little for the type of currency of destinations

4. Passports

5. Identity cards

6. Credit cards

7. Driving licenses

8. Prescription Drugs

9. Glasses, sun-glasses

10. Laptop

11. Camera (spare film and batteries)

12. Clothes, hats, gloves, mitten, shoes, belts, underwear, socks, shorts, pajamas, bathing costume … depending on weather and destination

13. Books, games, music device, magazines, headphones, film

14. Materials, Files, laptop if required in your business

15. Outfit

16. Toiletries

17. Hair driers, hair-grip, comb, hair brush

18. Condoms (you never know...)

19. Shampoo, shave cream, shaver, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap

20. Dictionaries, electronic translators

21. Travel guide books, address books, maps, your notes about destinations

22. make-up

23. nail file and clippers if needed

24. tissues, towels, handkerchiefs

25. first-aid kit, aspirins, medicine

26. health insurance certificates

27. pen

28. bags for used clothing

29. ear-plugs, eye-wraps, head rests, etc. - for sleeping on plane

30. small bottle for water

31. bottle opener and/or corkscrew

32. electrical adaptor if needed

33. travel alarm clock

34. binoculars

35. Sun Screen

36. Fold-up umbrella

37. Laundry kit and detergent

38. Electric torch if needed – especially you travel to explore forests or night sea

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Now do an IQ test for fun but not fun

Fun but not fun - a little puzzled and stressed - but fun

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Click above to check how do you score? I scored 118/140.

Create a free forum with forumer.com

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Further more Forumer.com give a service called fShops which help you earn money. You are asked to Login to your forum and get to your Admin Panel, and then you are supposed to click on [fShops: Make Money]. Follow some instructions and start building your own FREE shop.

Through the fShop you can sell your products and earn money through commissions. Payments are mailed once per month.

It's weird because the shop will also assist you to build a group of dedicated members. One more thing, shipping, returns, refunds, credit card processing etc ... are not done by you. CP will take care of those. What you do is create designs, upload them to CP, and choose which products you decide to put in and display in your store...

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How to have a forum and then administrate it?
Some ideas that one have a free forum should know

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Caution for those who have a free forum

Nowadays it is not hard to possess your own forum. You do not need to know about web designer or about programing language as html, php, javascript and so on. What you just do to have it is to go to a certain website supporting with a free forum, register an account, then you have a free forum. In other words, it is fairly as easy as to create an email account on gmail.com as well as on mail.yahoo.com
How to get a free forum to administrate?

As you know, nothing is naturally free. So is there any problem about free thing? I would definitely say "yes". So before you pay much attention and time to make a big and well-known forum. I highly recommend you to read the things below. What I write below, however, does not cover all the problems about free forum. So if you concern and have got opinion, please comment. Your comment is highly appreciated.

1. They may add some advertisments on your forums. If you do not care about this, it is a great place for you to choose to have a free forum. Anyway, now people can earn money online. But if you do that, it mean all you do to make your forum better is all you do to drive money to the forum services.

2. Be careful with service without advertisments. The question becomes "How can they pay for their free service without money". They also need to advertise themselves to let you know and register. They also need employees to work for them. If they have no revenue and no profit, the threat will certainly be that sooner or later they will close and stop their service. All you do for a long working time will go up to the air and disappear. However, there are some exceptions of this case.

3. The service without advertisments but with suppling paid host or something that can bring money to them else is not bad. They have profit in other ways though. So you can be safer with that. They are trying to supply free to have attention of the public. You somehow help them to let the public know. If you do not worry about that, choose this free service site.

4. With free forum, you do not have your own pretty domain. Your address link may be this way:
http://yourname.theirname.com
Is it so long? The easy-to-remembet domain will help you to drive visitors to your website.

5. When you are driving more and more visitors and yours become popular, what happen? Will they take back their service which they are serving you? I hardly know. It depends on their reputation.

6. I highly recommend you choose the service with top ranking by search engine.

7. What is your purpose to have a forum? Have a look on this problem and consider whether or not to choose another service other than forum such as facebook, myspace, blogspot...

I hope that this post helps.

Read more:
Hosting a Forum. Where to get started?

Monday, January 14, 2008

Template of this blog without Ads

Here is the template of this blog without Ads of google, copy and past into your blogspot (at tab "edit html"). Make sure you have already reverted your blogspot to clasic template before using this template code.

If you make some mistake, comment and ask me here.
Follow the steps as follows:

1. http://blogger.com
2. click "template"
3. enter "edit html"
4. copy and paste the code below into the text area
5. save template changes


The code is below, click to download:
http://thuychau.110mb.com/files/template_without_ads.zip
Read carefully the guide before using the template.

Read more:
Template of this blog with Adsenses before and after first post

How to revert to clasic template?

How to insert Adsense to your post?

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Template of this blog with Adsense before and after post

Here is the template of this blog, copy and past into your blogspot (at tab "edit html"). Make sure you have already reverted your blogspot to clasic template before using this template code.

This template is already inserted 3 Adsense. 2 of them are placed before and after post-text. The last one is placed at the right column as you see in this site. So you have to replace the code of 3 Adsenses with yours by looking for the word "Adsense" in the Code text. If you make some mistake, comment and ask me here.
Follow the steps as follows:

1. http://blogger.com
2. click "template"
3. enter "edit html"
4. copy and paste the code below into the text area
5. save template changes


The code is below, click to download:
http://thuychau.110mb.com/files/template2ads_on_post.zip
Read carefully the guide before using the template.

Read more:
How to revert to clasic template?
How to insert Adsense to your post?

How to revert your template to classic template

Follow these steps:
1. Access http://blogger.com
2. Then choose "Lay out"
3. "Edit html"
4. Click "Revert to classic template"

How to insert Adsense in your post?

In order to make money with Adsense, you need some tips. And one of the tips is that your Adsense must be at a very convenient spot for your visitor to click and to see. No where more convenient than inside and within the post.

We can not put in within the text of the post as a matter of fact. So what I am trying to tell you here to place it above or below the post. Or even both of the place. What you need to do and what you must do is to revert your blogspot to classic template. You can not do that with the templates supplied by blogspot except the classic template.

The classic template is very awful and bad in decoration. So you need another template which meets your eyes' requirements of decoration. Follow one of these steps:

1. You can search the template on the internet.
2. You can use the template of this blog. I will share you.
Template of this blog without Ads by google.
Template of this blog with three Adsenses. (One Adsense before first post, one after first post and one on the right column). It is likely the same as this blog. Have a look at the three positions of Adsenses.


Now your have your own template. If your template has no Adsenses, you can add follows these steps below:

1. go to http://blogger.com and sign in.
2. click "template"
3. enter "edit html"
4. Right after <head>, insert this line:
<script language="JavaScript">var i=0;</script>


Then it becomes:
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">var i=0;</script>

5. Look for the place of <$BlogItemBody$> through the whole code. You will find it. Then decide whether you want to insert before or after post.

If before, insert the new-style adsense code before <$BlogItemBody$>
If the answer is after, insert the new-style adsense code after <$BlogItemBody$>
If both of the places, insert the new-style adsense code before and after <$BlogItemBody$>

Your original-style adsense code looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-4443543186266666";
//336x280, shareknowledge, blue
google_ad_slot = "0123456789";

google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//--></script>


<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

The first part of code in white must be changed by the first part of your Adsense. The second part in bold purple must be replaced by this one:

<script language="JavaScript">

if(i == 1)
document.write('<div><scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" ' +
'src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"' +'> </scr'
+'ipt></div>');
</script>


So your whole new-style code is something like the one below:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-4443543186266666";
//336x280, shareknowledge, blue
google_ad_slot = "0123456789";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//--></script>

<script language="JavaScript">

if(i == 1)
document.write('<div><scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" ' +
'src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"' +'> </scr' +'ipt></div>');
</script>

6. Click "Save changes" to save your new-style-template with adsense

How to have a free forum to administrate?

Fr. stands for Forum for quick write.

It is now very easy to register hosting a free Fr. Some of website help you with hosting it without money. But they may add some ads on your Fr.. But I think that it is easy to understand, they add advertisement to have money to support your fr. hosting. So, not a big problem. And there is one thing that I should warn you, be careful with supporting a free one without inserting advertisment. The website do that will have nothing to exist and will sooner or later close their services and then you lose everything you put in the fr. you try your best to make it a best one.

Having a free fr. is so quick. You just access and create an account, everything seems so quick as having an email account. And so what is included in the fr. you have been hosting?

After register hosting a free fr. you will have some option included in your hosting fr.:

1. you can change your forum skin which can be seen as the layout, the theme, the decoration as well of your hosting fr.

2. unlimited posts and users. This mean you and your visitors can post as many text or stuff as they desire. And you can have so many visitors without any break of the rule.

3. create polls

4. private message. This mean you can private message to your user and they message back. And they also can message to one another.

5. private and public fr.s . you can have a lot of fr.s inside the hosting fr. you register. One of them may be private, some may be public depending on you. You can use any option you like.

6. pop-up add free

7. spam prevention

8. use your own logo

9. free tech support. You can have a fee support by joining their technique fr. and post your problem their and wait for the answers.


You can access them by searching them on google.com keywords you can use are: free forum register

Try these: http://www.forumer.com
http://www.boardster.net/

Friday, January 11, 2008

Forum hosting - register for hosting a forum

Forum (Fr.) is a very well-known word.

Why do we need a Fr.?
Fr. is an extremely good way to get return of visitors. We register for hosting a forum in order to deliver information to our visitors as well as get theirs back. If you run your own business, it is also a good way for hosting one. Fr. web hosting can help you to build a great brand recognized by your own loyal community of users. Loyal customers is a reason why a company exists for a long time.


Where do we register for hosting a Fr.?

*You are having your own website with your own host.

You just search code for a Fr. on web, download it and install into your host. The code consists of many files and it is compressed into a zip file or so. Installing is rather easy and quick. Read carefully some instruction before installing. There are some types of Fr. that are familiar to everyone. They are phpbb and IPB. You can go search on the web with the key words: "phpbb forum download" to find a web site that support it. The keywords are just a suggestion. You can think other words to make your search easier if you find others to put in.

*You do not have a hosting.

In this case, you must register for a host. A hosting is a so-called storing room for all the contents and files of your website including images, text, mp3, etc. Some websites help you to do that and you however know how to design and build up a website. It is not an easy job at all. It requires you some knowledge about web designing.

Register a hosting may cost you some money paid monthly or yearly. You will register a domain name as well. Then after you have already had a site to be hosted, you can go and download code for a Fr. and install the Fr. into your hosting.

Let's search a code file for a Fr. on web, the code file is a compressed file that consists many files and you have to decompressed it. Download it and install into your host. Installing job is rather easy and quick. Read carefully some instructions before you do the installing. There are some types of Fr. that are familiar to everyone. They are phpbb and IPB. You therefore can go search on the web with the key words: "phpbb forum download" to find a web site that support it. The keywords are a suggestion as a matter of fact. You can figure out other words to make your search easier if you find others to put in.

*No money. You can also register for hosting a free Fr.
Read more
How to have a free forum and administrate it?

shareknowledges links pointed from external sites

http://forums.myspace.com/t/3725244.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread
http://forums.myspace.com/t/3725999.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread
http://socioculture123.blogspot.com/2008/01/sitemap.html
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-howdoi/browse_thread/thread/a63801d8c400d9fc
http://forums.blogflux.com/showthread.php?t=1956
http://boardreader.com/fp/AardvarkTravel_net_Travel_Foru_10117/Introductions_Forum_7347.html
http://www.aardvarktravel.net/ausemade-forum/viewtopic.php?p=121790
http://www.nightwear-p3.exstasy.no/firstaid-kit-for-mothers-book/
http://groups.google.nr/group/blogger-help/search?enc_author=FjusPy0AAACCAGQWWA-kaYHBrbCrL1L1Y2dlDEUOY5KMy6-OeY5f29C6mNBT6L18cYpyCU16v6g&scoring=d