Holiday and Travel Articles
posted on 5 February 2013
As a child growing up in the United States, I always looked forward to June. The end of school, and the beginning of my favorite vacation: our annual pilgrimage to my aunt's caravan in the south of Ireland, along the coast. The core group consisted of my brother, sisters, and six or seven cousins as the caravan had a variety of bunk-beds and convertible seating, this number could swell astronomically. We children had almost full freedom while the adults relaxed together, we were allowed full run of the caravan site and surrounding beaches and businesses. There was an abandoned castle nearby, and we spent many happy hours exploring the ruins, jumping out ground floor windows, and accompanying our playmates to the doctors when they subsequently broke their arms. The best part of the caravan was how roomy it was to us children with only three rooms (plus a rarely-used bathroom), it still managed to be our "fort" on rainy days, a place to play blind hide-n-seek, and a place that provided my family with thousands of hours of cherished memories.
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posted on 24 October 2012
I've been on a lot of trips in vacations in my life. I've been to beautiful cities and terribly boring towns. I've stayed at luxurious resorts and slept in crummy, run down motels. I've experienced the good, and I've more than experienced my share of the bad. However, if there's one trip that will always stand out as an absolute nightmare in my mind, it's a backwoods adventure in a Hymer Classic my friends and I took a few summers ago. For whatever reason, we thought renting a big RV, packing all of us and our belongings inside, and hitting the open road would be a ton of fun. Unfortunately, we were wrong. Filling up the RV with gas cost a fortune, the weather was brutal, we got restless in the RV and spent endless hours fighting with each other, and we struggled to find a decent campsite to park the big rig at every night. Sure, some of this was bad luck, but it spoiled our impressions of a fun, little road trip in a big RV pretty quickly, and I can honestly say that none of us will ever opt for that kind of vacation again. I'm done sleeping in an uncomfortable bed in a prison on wheels. I think it's time to go back to the gorgeous suites on the Las Vegas Strip or sunny beaches in Hawaii. Maybe the open road just isn't for me. |
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posted on 9 October 2012
Rules are part of life that everyone should learn to deal with. This is because in most cases they are not there to punish but rather to help a country or a company to stay in line with what is expected of them. There is no doubt that things would not remain the same if not for the guidance of the law. That is why, even in the ownership of australian passport, the rules of the agency have to be obeyed if one would wish to succeed in any application. It would be so inconveniencing to a country if they have to issue passports to anyone who needs one without having to check the legality of ownership or without following any other rule expected of them. That is why, they have to ensure that all the citizens have to follow the required procedure of being in ownership. As a genuine applicant, it does no harm to follow the simply rules of the agencies that issue the passports. You are simply required to follow them to the latter and you will surely get a valid passport of your own.
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posted on 23 June 2012
I was tired of being an armchair traveler and wanted to see certain destinations. I got some inspiration from goeuropean.co.uk - a site selling motorhomes, and have always been longing to see the Northern Territory so I convinced my husband to take me on a holiday with our caravan which had hardly been used. We planned to drive to Darwin from Queensland. We decided to drive along the coast. The beaches were absolutely beautiful and we stayed in a number of beachside caravan parks and met lots of friendly people. It was great being able to go for walks along the beach in the evening and having a caravan park practically on the beach. We saw many beautiful scenes and lots of tourist sites on the way. The only downside to the trip was that some of the trip could be quite isolating. At times we were the only ones on the road. I was far too scared to travel at night so we always ensured we reached our destination before dark. Finally we reached Darwin and of course it was a scorcher. Would have been easily over forty degrees. It is a beautiful place in the evening. |
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posted on 1 May 2012
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posted on 6 April 2012
There are people who are naturally careless. Everything they touch either ends up in shambles or they get lost. Some of them cannot even explain how this happens but it just does. I am saying this because my sister is one of those people. I think we can add that fact to that one of she is also a clumsy person and she always breaks things around her. Even when we go to the store to shop, she always stays away from all the delicate merchandise so that she could not break any of them and that is something that have saved us a lot of money. Before we graduated we planned that upon graduation we were going to bag pack across Europe and we got passports. We were not the only people who wanted to do this, we were a group of twelve friends. I had to keep her passport and mine because I did not want the case of lost passports. This is because I knew how hard it was for us to get that passport and I did not want to imagine of getting another passport because someone as careless as my sister had lost the other passports. |
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posted on 10 January 2012
I recently bought my sister individual health insurance because she is a single mother and she refuses to accept any monetary assistance from me and my husband. Her husband abandoned her and my nephew several years back and I have seen how she tried to provide her son everything that he needed by working several jobs a day. Although she is a professional she cannot work full time because she wants to make sure that she will still be able to take care of her child and guide him in his studies.
Since my husband and I are well-off financially we tried several times to give her financial assistance but she is quite prideful. I really feel bad towards her because she is such a good person yet it seems like bad things are always happening to her. I can never understand the circumstances in her life but I hope that I will find ways that are acceptable to her just to help her out. |
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posted on 30 July 2011
There is nothing that can be so interesting than being surprised at the time when you do not expect it. Surprises are meant to make someone happy and they mainly happen at the time you least expect it. This happened to me a few days ago, my employer just called me and told me to go to the office. I did not expect such a call from my boss cause it was my day off and so i did not want any disturbances i had to tell my boss that it was my day off and was not expected to be at work that day. The boss insisted that i should go which i did. Once i got there i was given an envelope and told to open it. After opening it, i was shocked to see a plane ticket to go to US. I simply lacked words that i could express myself but i just hugged my boss. The trip was supposed to be be in three days so i had to make sure that i have my passport ready. I had to apply for an emergency passport. The expedited passport takes only a few days and it is ready even though the charges are a bit high compared to the normal one. |
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posted on 11 July 2011
There are people who do things the last minute and for these people they can not blame any one if bad things happen to them because they took their time in doing what needed to be done early. During holidays like Christmas and others there are a number of people who do shopping for gifts and other things early enough that sending them is done at their own pace. However there is the other group that has never learnt that the last minute rush is not good at all and they spend a lot of money because by the time they do their shopping prices have been hiked on most items. It is always good to plan way in advance so that one can buy things at reasonable prices and that they can be at ease. Getting passport when you are looking to travel is the same thing and one should ensure that two months earlier they have done the passport application. This will mean that they can relax and do other things that they need to do. |
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posted on 21 December 2010
It was 1996, and the snow was coming down in a heavy flurry. I was on a bus to Buxton and we'd only just gotten through Disley when things got decided slippy. I could feel the bus sliding around slightly as the snow consolidated on the road. I knew that it would get worse as we approached Dove Holes, and only hoped the driver could make it to Buxton. From there, I was to meet a friend - we'd hired out one of those Peak District holiday cottages and I was really looking forward to the weekend - I didn't want to be stuck on a bus for hours, trapped in the snow, that's for sure!
Luckily the bus driver somehow controlled the bus through the snow and we'd made it to Buxton in one piece. It's amazing how quick the weather can change in this part of England. |
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posted on 16 December 2010
It was all in the name of love that this young man did to his girlfriend, four years younger than his senior. Kaitlyn were staying in Manila with a friend when Rhyz was giving her a surprise visit on that Christmas eve of year 1998. It was the greatest gift he gave on her nevertheless, the beautiful heart-shaped Alexandrite engagement ring he had brought on as he put it on her delicate finger at the stroke of midnight on Christmas day. So memorable Christmas they had despite the fact that they were not around with their families and friends, but being together alone would do just fine. It would the happiest moments of their lives and yet, the saddest one when Kaitlin would be going to work in Israel with her mom few days later then. A bittersweet day, in sadness but in gladness at the same time. At the airport, Rhys was trying to control his emotion when he pretended to check on his passport locator number after he kissed Kaitlin and waved their last goodbyes. Later that week, Kaitlin took the flight off to Haifa, Israel with tears falling down her cheeks for the man she thought was the one for her. |
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