Travel Series: Should you use cash, credit, or travelers checks when you travel abroad to get the best exchange rate?
What should you carry when you travel abroad? Cash? Cards? Traveler's Cheques? It is always difficult to know what to bring.
Travel Series: Quick things to remember when packing a suitcase
If you remember NOTHING else about packing, these are my fast top things to do: CHECK THE WEATHER If you don’t know what the weather will be like, you will be screwed when yo
Travel FAQ: Where to buy high-quality authentic saffron in Madrid, Spain
I always come to this particular market to buy saffron in Madrid, Spain. In Canada, to find this particular quality of saffron, you need to pay a lot more for it in speciality stor
Travel Series: The Bare Bones Packing List
I’ve written a number of posts about how to pack lightly: How to pack lightly for traveling with just the essentials in a carry-on Minimalist Packing: 1 Carryon. 1 Bag. 2 mon
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – High-Technology and Other Cool Things
This is part of my Travel Series. — First, there’s the Shanghai Bund skyline that impresses lots of people, especially tourists who have left their villages for the fi
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – National Costumes and Uniforms of China
This is part of my Travel Series. — Not much to talk about here, just wanted to show some of the uniforms they have and national costumes in China. At the Great Wall of Chin
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Working in China
This is part of my Travel Series. — RUSH HOUR IS NUTS, WORSE THAN WHAT I’VE EXPERIENCED Insanity! Can I just show you my video of how crazy rush hour is in the morning?
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Working into their old age
This is part of my Travel Series. — So here’s a quick chart I created: (Source: China Daily; but I adjusted the final annual amounts because the monthly numbers didn&
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Super Clean Beijing and Shanghai
This is part of my Travel Series. — I hear this is something that is not normal in other Chinese cities, but Beijing and Shanghai were SPOTLESS. Not a single speck of a spec
Travel: What it’s like to visit China – Their Homes and Toilets
This is part of the Travel: What it’s like to visit each city series I’m doing, to talk about what it’s like to see each city I’ve been through, from a fo