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Tips for Travellers Podcast 143: Australia Tips and Advice for Travellers

…al history and issue is an uncomfortable topic for Australians. Australian English is different to both American and British English. Enormous “Aussie” pride Expensive country to tourLost most of backpacker trade to Asia with some big impact on certain regions Fires and floods are a major challenge. Unique wildlife like kangaroo and wallabies with big risks from crocodiles and jelly fish and imported creatures slike camels and cane toads Outdoor l…

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Travel tips 152: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

…pid transit) is modern, cheap and pretty easy to work out – information in English. Hop-on Hop-off bus tour – takes about 3 hours to get around – more than 22 stops – mixed views on it – go to all main areas. General tips Mandatory death sentence for drug dealing or possession. Conservative dress. Good English as is required in schools. Only drink bottled water with seal – not tap water. Haggling in markets and in places like Chinatown is the norm…

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Travel Tips Podcast 155: Dubai UAE

…tickets – get day pass – ticket machines / signs / on-board voice also in English – some carriages of women and children only at peak times Monorail from base of the Palm Atlantis – not connected to the metro. Taxis are cheap and efficient to use – though traffic can be bad at all times of day and night. Busses best left to locals. Cross Dubai Creek on small boats called abras (water taxis). Hop-on Hop-off bus operated by Big Bus includes tickets…

Crystal Cruises Guide Barcelona

Cruise Ship / Crystal

Shore Excursion Tips and Advice from Crystal Cruises Excursions Manager

…her activity tours as well as running and cycling excursions. Tours are in English: The ship operates as an English-speaking ship, and the excursions reflect this. If there is a large Chinese or Japanese contingent booked they will try to find relevant language speaker guides. Different to many cruise companies is they run small group size tours where possible: The bus used will have around 25 versus capacity of double that which allow a lot of sp…

Seabourn

Seabourn Cruises Tips, Tricks And Advice: Getting The Most From Your Cruise

…mpanies like Silversea and Crystal, attracting a slightly older, affluent, english-speaking passengers travelling as couples or solo. The ships are smaller than those operated by luxury lines like Cunard and Holland America and carry around 450 passengers, which means that they can provide a more customised cruise and lots of interaction between the crew and passengers. The size encourages a social atmosphere and so it is best for people that like…

Jordan

Jordan Tips for Travellers. 10 Must-see and must-do sights.

…and driver or going on package tours or excursions work best. People speak English everywhere, making it feel easy to reach and find your way around the system and sites. Camels at Petra Jordan History Jordan had a varied history before becoming an independent state in 1946. Over the centuries it was occupied by the Nabateans, Romans, Byzantines, Ummayads, Abbasids, Ayyubids, Mamluks and the Ottomans. The latter until the First World War, when the…

Uniworld River Cruises

9 Tips for Getting the Most from a River Cruise with Uniworld

…end to attract couples and solo travellers aged 50 and above who come from English-speaking countries, as everything on the ship is conducted in English. Watch a video I made interviewing Uniworld crew about their “Six-Star Service” Tip 3: Make sure you choosing the right cruise The amount of cruising versus time in towns or docked can vary a greatly between cruises. When looking at the itinerary look carefully at how much the ship cruises during…

Cunard

Cunard World Cruise Week One Highlights (Southampton to the Azores)

…the winds that raged between 40 and 50 knots from the time we entered the English Channel. Stretching out around the ship the sea looked angry, with swells of up to five metres which lasted all day and into the night as we transited the Bay of Biscay. Movement was constant, and occasionally the ship would shudder as it rose on a wave and slapped back down. Considering the state of the ocean, however, the ship remained remarkably controlled as the…

Cunard

Cunard Around-The-World Week Nine Highlights: Joining the Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong

…but we decided to explore by foot and Metro. This was easy to navigate, as English signage was everywhere. All children in Shanghai learn English and so most of the people we encountered across the city spoke or understood some. First we strolled up the Nanjing Road, with the shops starting to open from 10am and ventured to People’s Square, on the site of the old racecourse. Here we visited the National Planning Museum dedicated to the past, prese…

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Cunard Around-the-World Cruise Highlights Week 10: South Korea to Nagasaki and Kagoshima

…appreciated that we were in a foreign in country as there was very little English signage and people able to speak it. This was great as we felt we were really visiting someone not overrun by western tourists. We braved a local restaurant where no English was spoken or available and through pointing at food and gestures we had a great meal. A brass band played despite the pouring rain and lots of locals were there to shout and wave us off. We fel…

Nagasaki Peace Statue Japan

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Nagasaki Tips For Travellers Podcast #233

…index_e.html Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall: http://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/english/index.html Mount Inasa: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4412.html Glover Garden: http://www.glover-garden.jp/foreign/english.html Madam Butterfly Statue Nagasaki Japan This episode was supported by DK Eyewitness Travel Guides (USA listeners) (UK listeners) After listening to the podcast and have any thoughts please leave a comment on Tipsfortravellers.com/podcast, ema…