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Several people told me not to go to Colombia, Bogota, concerned for my safety, but I did and glad I did, I found it no less safe than any other city in the world with eight million people; and the people a ting more sparkling, warm and willing to accommodate than a lot of the other South American Countries.

Bogota is a cuddled big city in the Andes, with a lot of old traditions, that I like, but some folks are saying, may be gone in the near future; let’s hope not, it still has the old charm, even a little rustic look from the colonial times of yesteryear.
Having said that, I want to look at a few customs I enjoyed along with a few places I’ve seen in my short four day visit:

1) The Catedral Sal, an hour’s ride outside of Bogota; it has to be considered one of the Contemporary Wonders of the World. A few hundred feet below the ground, the Catedral holds some 8000-people. It took four years to build, 250-miners, $8-million dollars (one section), for this small country of 40-million, which is probably equal to $80-million in America.

2) The Donkey Men of Bogota, whom collect leftovers from cafes and hotels, restaurants, etc., and bring the remains home to feed their pigs.

3) The Cow folks of Bogota, whom sell cowhides on the bridges during the working week.

4) The Bike-cycle People, that gather up their families along with all sorts of other folks to take advantage of the ‘normally’ busy streets, on Sundays and holidays, and ride freely without worry of cars hitting their rear-ends (the streets are reserved for those people).

5) The National Museum, with all its pottery and art, especially Botero’s collection (of fat people, trees and fruits).

6) The white church “Monserrate,” on top of the mountain, in which you have to take a cable car to reach. To be honest, I liked the white colonial restaurant, ‘Santa Clara,’ better; it has a wondrous view of the city.

All in all, I enjoyed the city, the accommodating people, and their warmness to a foreign stranger. My hotel, ‘Los Heroes,’ was great for a three star hotel; they acted more like a four star to be truthful. I will have a lot of good memories; plus, I got to relax for once.

incidentally, your dollar is about double value, than in the states; or about 1/3 more expensive than Lima, Peru. The condos in the city run about 60% higher than those an hour away from the city, which are about $20,000-dollars. All in all, still a good deal.

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Some time in July I was watching our local TV station, CityTV, and I caught a part of a report about a Toronto couple that had remortgaged their home to start a non-profit community development organization in a small town on the Pacific Coast in Peru. I didn’t catch their name or their contact information, only the website: www.paraelmundo.org. I used the contact email on the website to try to locate this couple and to ask them for an interview.

I got a response back and met Danielle Lafond, the female member of the couple and co-creator of the project, in a restaurant in Toronto’s Greektown and was struck by her youthful energy, idealism and commitment to improving this world. The decision to put their own finances at risk and invest at least a year of their lives in this Peruvian community had a strong impact on me and I am delighted to be able to introduce to you this delightful young woman: Danielle Lafond.

1. Please tell us about yourself. Where are you from, what is your educational background?

I am in my mid twenties, and I just completed a 4 year social work degree at Ryerson University. Before that, I studied music and also worked and traveled for several years as a tour guide in Canada.

2. You have a very strong social conscience. What life experiences have shaped your belief system?

As a woman of color, I’ve always been conscious of issues relating to racism and sexism, but I became more politically active after moving to Toronto and connecting with others who had similar experiences. I also had many personal struggles in my teens which influenced my desire to help others.

3. When you were young you hitch-hiked across Canada. Please tell us about that trip and what you learned from it.

I left high school to travel when I was 16. My trip took me across most of the country, and I met many interesting people who were leading very interesting lives, making their living in non-traditional ways. It inspired me to follow my dream of making a life, not just making a living. Also, my faith in humanity, in people, was completely restored. I met many people from many walks of life, and almost everyone was willing to share, laugh, talk and open their hearts and homes to me. The
experience left me with a sense that all people share an essential goodness.

4. Some time ago you also went to Cuba and taught ESL classes in exchange for room and board. Please tell us about that experience.

A few years ago, I went to Cuba with no plans, and very little understanding of the sociopolitical situation in Cuba. To me, it was just another island in the Caribbean. I knew I didn’t want to do anything typically tourist-oriented, so I ended up at the University of Habana in the summer months, where I worked out deal with someone working there to give me room and meal tickets in exchange for teaching English a few hours a day. I had $500 dollars in the bank, and a return ticket, and I
managed to last a few months this way. It was an incredibly humbling experience, because I saw for the first time how people outside North America live, and I was able to meet and learn from Cuban people. I learned a little Spanish, and fell in love with Afro-Cuban and Latin music. I had been a musician my whole life, but this trip showed me how music could be used to connect with people across language
and cultural barriers.

5. Through your studies in social work at Ryerson University you spent some time in Peru, completing the placement for your degree requirements. Where did you go and what did you do there? What places did you travel to in Peru and what did you learn about the culture?

As my third year placement, I decided I wanted another international travel experience, and made plans to travel with a close friend. I knew that the experience of doing social work in South America was going to be challenging and emotionally trying, so I was glad my friend agreed to do this together. We spent the first part of our time in Peru travelling, along with my partner Josh. The three of us were amazed by the diversity of the country.

We started in Lima, a city of over 11 million people, with distinct neighbourhoods and cultural practices, then traveled to Arequipa and Cusco, Macchu Picchu, Puno, and Lake Titicaca, which each had completely different cultural groups, languages and food. Many of the people we met were Indigenous Peruvians who spoke various dialects of Quechua. Many of them spoke no Spanish at all. The more we traveled, the more I felt in awe of the strength, resilience and resourcefulness of the
people we met, who had been struggling for many hundreds of years, but who are also rich in cultural traditions, food, music, art, history and languages.

6. This time in South America convinced you to stay involved on a more lasting level with the people of Peru. In particular you wanted to do something for a fishing town called Mancora. Please tell us how you got the idea to create a non-profit international development organization.

After our travels, my friend and I ended up in a small fishing community in Northern Peru, 19 hours north of Lima by bus, and about an hour south of the border to Ecuador. Again, we were completely surprised to see another part of Peru so different from all we’d seen thus far. Mancora is in a desert climate, so it is very dry and sunny, and the town has little infrastructure. Many people don’t have running water, and most who do only have it a few hours every other day or so. The power cuts out unexpectedly, and safe clean drinking water is not readily available or affordable. Also, there were no social services and very limited access to health care, unless one could afford to pay for it.

The town’s dependance on a once-booming fishing industry is rapidly changing to a dependance on tourism. A big El Nino in 1989 caused much grief for the town, which was isolated for 15 days, but it also created a beautiful beach which is now popular with surfers year-round.

As social work students, we were mostly working with women in the community, and we met an amazing couple who had started a small NGO (Non-governmental Organization, or not-for-profit organization) to try and help the people in the community in various ways. My friend and I spent the rest of our time in Peru living and working with them, working and researching what the most pressing needs in the community were. What we discovered from interviewing Mancorians was that
the people in town were concerned about the lack of affordable/accessible health care, unemployment, alcohol and drug addiction and domestic violence.

When I returned from my trip, I began discussions with my partner Josh, a Toronto Paramedic, and with a few close friends about starting a not-for-profit organization in Canada to help this under-serviced community in Peru. The most important thing for me was to be able to provide assistance to the people of Mancora as they saw fit, and not to impose my own ideals on them. The people we worked with last year seemed to feel strongly that having accessible medical care was an urgent need in their community, so this is where we focused most of our energy and resources for our first year projects.

Susanne Pacher is the publisher of a website called Travel and Transitions(http://www.travelandtransitions.com). Travel and Transitions deals with unconventional travel and is chock full of advice, tips, real life travel experiences, interviews with travellers and travel experts, insights and reflections, cross-cultural issues, contests and many other features. You will also find stories about life and the transitions that we face as we go through our own personal life-long journeys.

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At least one researcher of the locust plague devastation in our world believes the answer to stopping the locust swarms may be quite simple indeed. In fact much of his theories appear to be sound. That is right sound; as in harmonics, acoustics and directional sound waves to disrupt locust plagues and swarms in mid-flight. Mr. Warren Powers believes with the proper induced harmonic resonance that we can cause the insects to crash during their swarming.

Warren states; “I suspect insects like bees and other small flying insects manipulate, create and direct, sound energy, specifically, dynamic sound structures or patterns, standing waves for example.”

For many years science has tried to shake the fact that it took a long time to have the mystery of the flight of a bee explained; even then the description itself lacks the plain spoken concepts to allow a majority to appreciate the complexity of this dynamic aerobatic trick.

Warren further explains that; “By stating that “I suspect it involves the creation and maintenance of a dynamic structure”, I intend to establish a proposed theory and that theory can be pushed and pulled and tested and examined to the heart’s content; it is no negative consequence if it is not as I suspect.”

Indeed there is no negative consequences to this issue. Only one more way not to build a light bulb you hath discovered. But in saying that one must also realize that just because nature did not design the Bee that way or it had not evolved in the way you suspect with this dynamic structure which produces more life or other physics phenomena as you believe it may; well that does not mean we cannot make one which works like you propose and submit it to DARPA for the solicitation bidding contest. Or learn a new aerodynamic trick that we can re-create. Indeed for instance a Bee could have a thin film wing which waves as it flaps and/or make a sound “buzz” which causes this which is like a natural motion wing which allows the aerodynamics of the wing to change and allow airflows less drag [cutting it out] but still get all the lift, without the drag? A thought.

As we know that acoustic transducers can be made from thin film and that there are electro-magnetic generation methods, which can be produced thru quantum dot theories of theories of electromagnetic induction on a micro-scale. Actually I had a conversation about this once with an MAV builder, although not along the lines of the entire wing of an insect for this purpose or a secondary taunt film like a dope and fabric RC model aircraft. Perhaps food for thought on that sub concept?

No matter what it appears to that Warren Powers is onto something great and perhaps a break thru discovery in the flight of the locust and in that regard the answer to stopping the locust plagues, which threaten complete crop failure throughout the world. Consider all this in 2006.

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In today’s employment environment, it is more important than ever to be well schooled if you work or want to work in a technical field. It is not enough to have an interest, a desire or even a working knowledge of the vocation that you want to pursue.

Technology is changing faster than at any other time in history; an employer needs to know that you have what it takes to persevere in this competitive work environment. The best way to prove yourself is to earn a degree from a technical school that specializes in your field.

An education in technology often begins several years before a student is ready to enroll in a technical school. Students are often exposed to technology as a subject in high school; this is a good environment for the students to decide if they want to pursue this as a career option. If they do, after graduation, they have the option of attending a traditional university with a technical major, a brick and mortar technical school or even taking some classes online.

While most traditional universities will have a solid technical school with in them, they can be cost and time prohibitive, especially if you are an older adult looking for a career change. For students who find that money and time are an issue, it may be wise to focus on a type of school that focuses solely on technology, as the curriculum is pinpointed to only the major being studied, without other elective classes be mandatory for graduation from the program.

Regardless of the type of school you decide to attend, there are some considerations to keep in mind. You will want to be sure that the school you choose has been accredited by a recognized national agency for technology. If it is not your degree or certificate will not be worth much in the work place.

You will want to be able to visit the school, if you plan to stay on campus, this is especially important. You are looking for features of the school or the student life that appeal to you and your personality. This visit will probably require an appointment, but should not be difficult to complete.

While you are conducting your visit, ask about issues such as crime rate at the school, if previously completed coursework from another institution will transfer over, if they have their state licensing.

It is always a good idea to check out more than one technical school before making your final decision, if it is at all possible. This will allow you to make an informed decision that could affect the rest of your life.

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You can call it the emasculator of the old king, a sexual symbol, latent with fertility or a good luck charm for a dairy herd. It’s been used as an antidote for poison, a fire suppressant, a protection against evil spirits, a pain reliever for rheumatoid arthritis and as a gift of peace between warring neighbours. This parasitic shrub with sticky white berries has somehow shrugged off its shady past to become a tradition of our Christmas. But this is, after all, a season of myth, legend, and make believe.

Today mistletoe, while not exactly decking our halls, is hung over doorways to entice a couple to exchange a kiss. And we have forgotten even the meaning of its name.

The name is perhaps derived from the ancient belief that mistletoe was propagated from bird droppings, a belief related to the then-accepted principle that life could spring spontaneously from dung. It was observed in ancient times that mistletoe would often appear on a branch or twig where birds had left droppings. “Mistel” is one of the Anglo-Saxon words for “dung,” and “tan” is “twig”. So, mistletoe means “dung-on-a-twig”. Not a name that would normally encourage thoughts of romance.

Kissing under the mistletoe was practiced in the Greek festival of Saturnalia to bestow fertility and the dung from which the mistletoe was thought to arise was honoured for its life-giving power. From the earliest times mistletoe has been one of the most magical, mysterious, and sacred plants of European folklore.

Scandivanians enjoy kissing under the mistletoe. In earlier days they associated mistletoe with their goddess Freya and the part it played in the death of her son, Baldur the Beautiful. Once Baldur had a dream of his own death and, frantic in her anxiety, Freya asked all things, living and dead, not to harm him. She was given this promise by everything in the elements, but the mistletoe, a parasite, was no part of air or earth. Alas ! It was overlooked ! Loki the Trickster soon discovered this, and made an arrow from the little shrub. He tricked poor blind Bod into shooting the arrow at Baldur – with the inevitable result. The mistletoe grieved for its part in the tragedy, weeping until its red berries turned pale, and Freya forgave the plant with a kiss. Vikings used a branch to betoken peace.

Mistletoe is especially interesting botanically because it’s a partial parasite. French tradition tells us that mistletoe is poisonous because it was growing on a tree that was used to make the cross of Jesus. Because of this, it was cursed and denied a place to live and grow on earth, doomed forever to be a parasite.

The mistletoe of the sacred oak was especially sacred to the ancient Celtic Druids. The ritual of cutting the mistletoe symbolised the emasculation of the old King by his successor. Mistletoe was long regarded as both a sexual symbol and the “soul” of the oak. It was gathered at both mid-summer and winter solstices, and the custom of using mistletoe to decorate houses at Christmas is a survival of this tradition.

In medieval times branches of mistletoe were hung from ceilings to ward off evil spirits and placed over house and stable doors to prevent the entrance of witches. Farmers would give the Christmas bunch of mistletoe to the first cow that calved in the New Year thus bringing good luck to the entire herd.

Mistletoe is also believed to lower blood pressure, improve circulation and relieve the pain of rheumatoid arthritis although these effects have not been scientifically validated. In some alternative medicine therapies, mistletoe is used as long-term therapy to prevent hardening of the arteries.

If you hang up mistletoe this Christmas, please follow the correct etiquette: a man should pluck a berry when he kisses a woman under the mistletoe, and when the last berry is gone, there should be no more kissing ! Remember that an unmarried woman not kissed under the branch will remain single for another year, and always burn the Christmas mistletoe on the twelfth night lest all the couples who kissed under it never marry.

Come, kiss me under the dung-on-a-twig and raise your glass to mistletoe and a Merry Christmas!

Susanna Duffy is a Civil Celebrant, grief counsellor and mythologist. She creates ceremonies and Rites of Passage for individual and civic functions, and specialises in Celebrations for Women

It is said that the word ’safari’ began in Kenya. Indeed Kenya has all the aspects to justify that it is in fact the number one safari country. Safari did not only start by the arrival; in hordes, of the camera wielding, cigar smoking, boot wearing and rifle carrying European tourist in search of the elephant tusk or the lion’s mane. It is a given fact that safari is deep rooted in the Africa culture. The African culture is extremely social and going on safari to visit distant relatives and friends is a normal mode of life.

In the lives of the 21st century, safari to the foreign tourists is one that takes them deep into the African jungle where they encounter the wild animals in their natural habitat. This is in most cases the highlight of every tourist on safari in Kenya or any other African country. But; there is more to safari than just seeing the animals in the wild and this is where Kenya remain the only country in the world; where one can experience the true nature of safari.

Kenya has been a safari country for many centuries. With this kind of experience, Kenya has mastered all the little details of safari organization and comprehensive capitalized on the important aspects.

Hotel Infrastructure: Kenya has invested heavily on hotels and lodges across all the national parks. It always comes as a pleasant surprise to the foreign tourist how comfortable they can stay right in the middle of the jungle. Accommodation units are available to cater for all kinds of tourists. A camp site will be available for the back-packer and a 5 star jungle resort will be available for the luxury seekers. Having been a bilingual courier for many years, I witnessed with great awe the wonder in many a tourist on how enormous jungle resorts can be run with the perfection of a city hotel.

Human Resource: Kenya has invested enormously on the training of the personnel who work in the tourist resorts and any other safari related discipline. This will range from the waiter in the city hotel to the manager in the jungle resort; from the porter who will pick your luggage from your room to the driver-guide who will show you the impalas and lions in the bush.

Diversity: Kenya is an extremely divers country. One gets practically any adventure of his choice. Kenya is endowed with a coastal line for those who love to relax on the sandy beaches. The savannah and the forests offer you a perfect spot for viewing the wild animals. The mountains provide the more adventurous ones with a hike of a life-time. The deserts of northern Kenya provides you with a perfect setting to enjoy the hot sun and see the rare animals only found north of the equator. The Rift Valley provides some of the most unique landscapes in Africa; not to mention the Rift Valley lakes that are home to millions of flamingoes.

Smile & Friendliness: This is one aspect that every tourist who has visited Kenya will attest to. There is no where else in Africa where you will be received and served with so much happiness and grace. This is probably why Kenya has remained the number one safari country. The friendliness and the smiles on the faces of the people will remain permanently imprinted in your minds. There is nothing more comforting to a foreigner than to be received and served with so much happiness.

Organization and eye to detail: With a vast safari experience, Kenya has sharpened its skills on safari provision. Every little details will be taken care of; to your amazement and pleasure. >From the time you arrive at the airport and all through your safari experience, you will always have someone taking care of your interests. Everything shall have been planned in advance and all shall be ready. In Kenya, you can always be assured that your comfort is important to everyone.

If you are planning a vacation or business trip, undoubtedly you are looking to find a cheap hotel. Let’s face it; no one enjoys spending a fortune on accommodations and people are far happier when they find a cheap hotel to stay in while they travel. Nevertheless, while looking for a cheap hotel, it is vital that the traveler does not compromise quality for the cost of a cheap hotel. When quality is compromised all bets are off and the traveler is bound to have a bad time while they are away from home.

Finding cheap accommodation isn’t as difficult as one may first imagine. In fact, there are thousands of listings of inexpensive hotels on the Internet. Actually, you can find something almost anywhere in the world that will be suitable for your budget and pleasing to your senses. There is no need to pay extravagant prices for superlative service. Moreover, you can save yourself up to 75 percent on other hotel charges and still get incredible service during your stay.

You can easily get 4 star service from a number of inexpensive hotels. Many of them are within a short distance from the major attractions in any tourist hotspot. Also, you will find many inexpensive hotels that have a restaurant on location or one that is relatively nearby. Some cheap hotels offer additional amenities including gift shops, spa services, fitness centers and Internet access. Moreover, there are many located around airports so you can get to and from one place to the next with relative ease.

Recreational activities may be located on site. Some inexpensive hotels have swimming pools, whirl pools, jacuzzis and the like, while other recreational activities can be found nearby. Of course, these will depend on the travel destination but there will undoubtedly be historical sites to see, nature walks, parks, and recreational sites suitable for children. Plus, let us not forget about the nightlife offerings at many major cities. Bars, dance clubs, restaurants, theaters and more can often be located near thousands of inexpensive hotels.

Room service and beautifully comfortable rooms are offered at many inexpensive hotels. Remember, quality does not equate to big dollars when it comes to hotel accommodation and you don’t have to stay at the Waldorf or Trump Plaza to get great service. In fact, for those planning a gambling vacation, you may find many casinos offering travel packages that include inexpensive hotels within their package. Moreover, many travel agents prearrange inexpensive hotel accommodation in their vacation packages and it would serve a future traveler to investigate the offerings that such packages provide.

In the end, quality is not to be compromised in the face of affordability. Inexpensive hotels are easy to find once a traveler starts their search for one. So, there is no need to spend a fortune to be comfortable while one travels. Get online and find all of the inexpensive hotel accommodation today!

I have been an avid visitor on my holiday to the city of Valencia since 1980, and only noticed slight improvements and changes as far as its tourist offers were concerned, but in the last five or six years, this city has so much to do that I find myself travelling there whenever I can. I have always been fascinated by the Saint Joseph Festival of Fallas, then came the opening of the first buildings in the complex called ‘The City of the Arts and Sciences’, with the last building just recently opened. But living on the coast, you indirectly get caught in the tidal wave of sailing and the Americas Cup event which started in Valencia on 26th of November 2003 and which has brought many people into the world of navigating. Yearly Valencia Happenings Valencia Fallas is a yearly happening which reaches its highest points on the night of March 19th after having initiated the beginning on March 15th with stunning carton monuments on almost every corner, half hour long fireworks every night, historical parades of the Moorish in the streets and the local people dressed up in their best brocade traditional outfits in a jovial religious procession bringing flowers to the Virgin of the Unsheltered ( the Patron Saint of Valencia).

Another ‘not to be missed’ permanent attraction is the architecture which houses the now complete City of the Arts and Sciences. There are four main buildings:

+ Oceanographic- with over 45,000 samples of 500 different species of underwater life including a special tank with sharks which you can walk under.

+ Museum of the Sciences Prince Philip- where you can participate in all kinds of experiments and learn a lot more about biology and genetics.

+ The Hemispheric- where you can sit back, choose and enjoy any of the three audio-visual shows, either at the Planetarium, the Laserium or on the gigantic screen watching documentaries where you feel you are an active part.

+ The Queen Sophia Palace of Arts – this was just opened in October 2005 with the presence of the Queen. Here, all visitors will be honoured with performing arts in theatre, opera and all kinds of dance exhibitions. Let’s Monkey around in Valencia Spain If you are planning to travel to Valencia for whatever holiday at the end of next year, you will find yourself with the new Valencia Zoo or BioPark situated in a new green area and housing among other animals, over 250 species from the African savannah. Its to be 14 times bigger than the existing one and will take approximately six hours to see it all, but do not worry because the weather in Valencia is sunny and mild in winter. The young and old will be able to enjoy seeing the natural habitats of all these different animals that one usually cannot contemplate unless you actually travel there.

In 2006, there will also be more fleet and match races with the Americas Cup. Valencia will have three more Louis Vuitton Acts starting in May and continuing on into autumn. The port area will have undergone a big change and you can leisurely stroll around to get a close up view of the competing boats. There is also an official store where you can get all the seafaring attire your heart desires.

With all these new activities, the Valencia Airport has been making important improvements and has been gradually increasing its offer of flights from all over the world. There are new hotels and better transport for all those who wish to be an important part of Valencia Spain.

In just one day, we travelled from Playa Blanca at the southermost point of the island and made our first stop at the Mirador Del Rio high in the mountains in the north, stopping off to take some spectacular pictures from this strategic lookout point, cut into the mountain side. We then turned at the top of the island and made our descent to sea level where we saw an array of different coulered sands blown across the sea from the Sahara desert. shortly after this we arrived at our second attraction, the Jameos del Agua.

Enchanting, Mystical & Magical, the three most common words used to describe a place created as a result of a formation of gas explosions within a volcanic bubble. Over the years, seawater has flooded the tunnels so that eventually a lagoon has been left behind. A lagoon that is home to thousands of tiny white crabs that have become blind through many years of living in poor light, alagoon that has a bar and a restaurant and even a nightclub three times a week !

Almost next door, we foud La Cueva de los Verdes, one of the longest volcanic galleries in the world at 6km long and there is surprise element to this tour which I cannot tell you about otherwise it would spoil your visit. You need to be reasonably fit and healthy as you need to climb several stairs and bend over in order to get under many low recesses. It is impossible to take a pushchair into the caves.

Then we moved on to the Jardin de Cactus to see 1,400 different species all planted together in a small area of land to create the beautiful Cactus Garden.

There’s no denying about the phrase, “all work and no play can make anybody go bonkers!”

Everybody is expected to work at its best when in all sorts of jobs. Nurses are expected to do the rounds more than 16 hours and maybe longer unless they realize they have exceeded their minimum time or until they break down because all they did was work, drink coffee, work, and drink coffee in full 26 hours. Everyone can tell that doing that is quite too much. Its not like you’re the world’s greatest hero and not everyone realizes what you’ve been doing either.

We’re not talking about nurses only, there’s doctors too expected to meet their patients on call. The architects spending days drawing, you’ll be surprised they haven’t transferred their faces from staying in front of those stencils and plates on to their project. Businessman only has numbers in their heads. Engineers got buildings to attend to. Most often, work consumes most of your time that you miss out the big world out there waiting to be explored.

What’s worst is that if you spent all of your time on work that you loose the supposed quality time you should have been spending with your family. Too busy to even remember your kids plays in school, you and your partners wedding anniversary, your parents birthdays and God knows what more significant dates you have taken for granted because of having all the focus at work.

Make up to them, and finally give yourself a break from the busy world. Live up in the real world. The world of nature. Life is too short to be wasted on material things alone. There are so many places to go to, explore other countries. Visit other cities. The best part about it is that there’s a lot of offers out there about cheap international travels that you can search on so you can actually afford to bring your family with you.

Memories are the supreme treasure you can pass on to those you love. Travelling, visiting places half way around the world, and living life far from your usual routine can really leave a lasting memory not only to you but to the whole family as well, or to whoever is with you.

This is not exclusively for family persons only. If you’re not married, then why not ask your friends for a quick tour somewhere else. An adventure using cheap international travel informations that is available in all airline desks where you can find tips on how to travel by the budget. The best experience that you’ll never forget is exploring another part of the world not everyone finds time to do.

Before work gets the best out of you and before it spoils all your years, while you still are strong and while you have the budget to plan, go travel! When you’ve finally had that great break, you’ll realize that you have more enthusiasm to work when you return. Having a good unwinding experience recharge your energy needed to create that excellent outputs in all aspects of jobs there is everywhere. It has been proven that revitalizing is helpful for everyone. So, why go wait till you’re messed up and old? While you still have the chance, before you finally break down from all the pile of work. Find that information about cheap international travel as soon as you finish the last batch of paperwork that went in for you today.