If your connecting flight gets cancelled during a long layover in Dubai, Doha or Singapore, the claim process if a flight gets cancelled depends on the reason for the cancellation, the airline’s policy and your travel insurance cover. Start with the airline for rebooking, meals or a hotel, then claim any extra costs from your insurer, keeping written confirmation and receipts throughout. Here’s a step-by-step look at what to do at the airport … [Read more...]
Monaco in a Heartbeat – What to See and Where to Play
Monaco is small, flashy and absolutely packed with things to see. One minute you're looking at supercars worth more than a house, the next you're wandering through old streets or gazing at yachts that look bigger than your local supermarket. And there's a casino or two if you fancy a bit of gaming along the way. The good news? You don't need a massive budget to enjoy yourself. Plenty of Monaco's best sights are free, so you can soak up the … [Read more...]
What To Pack For A Winter Cabin Break In Scotland
A cabin in the Highlands in winter is hard to beat. Short days, long evenings by a stove, crisp walks and very little to do except slow down. It's the kind of trip people come back from feeling properly rested, as long as they've packed for the conditions. Scottish winters can be beautiful, but they're also changeable and often wet, and remote cabins don't always have a shop nearby. A bit of thought before you leave means you'll spend the trip … [Read more...]
Solo in Ubud: How to Spend a Week That Feels Like the Real Bali
Most people turn up in Ubud with a list. Monkey Forest, the rice terraces, a swing over the jungle, a smoothie bowl with a view. All of that's there and most of it is worth seeing. But if you are travelling on your own, the thing that tends to stay with you is something else: the slow morning before the scooters start, the offering someone sets down on the step outside your room, the conversation you fall into over dinner with a stranger who is … [Read more...]
Avoiding Hidden Fees Abroad: A Traveler’s Money Survival Guide
Most people plan a trip around what they want to see. Far fewer plan around how they’ll pay for things once they arrive, and that gap is where a surprising amount of money slips away. Spending in another country involves more players than spending at home. Your bank, the card network, the merchant and sometimes a machine operator you’ll never meet can each add a charge, and many of those charges are built to go unnoticed until your statement … [Read more...]
Inside Palawan’s Last Paradise
The first glimpse of Palawan takes your breath away—a slender island province in the Philippines stretching like an emerald jewel between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea. As my small propeller plane descended into Puerto Princesa, the capital city, I knew this journey would be unlike any other. Palawan is not just a destination; it's a living, breathing testament to the raw beauty of nature, a place where limestone cliffs rise from … [Read more...]
Reading the Water – Why the Best Scuba Diving in Bali Depends on the Morning Briefing
I fly freight for a living, mostly overnight runs out of Ontario, California, and I've sat through more weather briefings than I could count. So when I booked eight days of diving in Bali last August, eleven months after finishing my advanced course off Catalina Island, I assumed the dive briefings would be the dull part of the trip. I pictured a guy with a whiteboard and some hand signals. I'd planned the whole week around one site, Manta Point … [Read more...]
Komodo Island Scuba Diving at Sixty – A Hotel, a Liveaboard, and What I’d Change
I taught high school chemistry in Modesto for twenty-nine years, and I've carried the same dive logbook since 1989, a green vinyl binder with a Monterey dive shop's sticker peeling off the front cover. My first entry is a forty-one-foot dive off Breakwater Cove in a seven-millimeter wetsuit I can still smell. I turned sixty in February. My wife Linda doesn't dive, and when she asked what I wanted to mark the year, I said Komodo before she'd … [Read more...]
Tasting Room Tabs – ePOS Systems in Wine Country, From Napa to the Douro
I’ve lived in Santa Rosa since 2009, and for most of that time I’ve made a living installing till and ordering systems for restaurants and tasting rooms around Sonoma and Napa. It’s not a glamorous job. But it means I’ve stood behind more tasting bars than most sommeliers, usually holding a screwdriver instead of a glass, and I notice how a winery handles its bills long before I notice what’s in the bottle. Wine country is hard on a tab. A … [Read more...]
A Week on a Mississippi Riverboat: Full Trip Report
There is something special about traveling along a river. Unlike a road trip, where the scenery changes with every turn, a river journey unfolds at a gentler pace. Towns, forests, farmland, and historic waterfronts gradually appear along the banks, offering a different perspective on the American landscape. A week aboard a Mississippi Riverboat offers the opportunity to experience this slower style of travel while exploring one of the … [Read more...]
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