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How to help children overcome travel anxiety

Photo by US State Department courtesy CC user Liftarn on Wikimedia Commons Family holidays can be a lot of fun. There’s the anticipation and excitement of going to a new place and exploring sights and sounds that you’ve never experienced before. To make it even better, you get to take your children with you, and you can have fun discovering all the hidden treasures a new location has to offer. Unfortunately, some children do not travel well. The thought of traveling, either by plane or by road, for a long period of time, simply terrifies them. Flying can be especially scary…

Best and Worst New Football Kits 2016

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A great football (soccer) team deserves a great kit (jersey) but just because you deserve something doesn’t always mean you will get it. Sometimes great teams get terrible kits or terrible teams get great kits. Here are some football kits that will leave you saying “no, no, no!” as well as some that will leave you saying “goal!!!” Check out  the best and worst new football kits 2016. The Worst While the the football kits of the team’s in this years Euro Cup (as seen in the infographic) don’t all have great kits; they are no wear near some of the worst of…

3 Tips to Building a Strong Brand Image

A strong brand can be the secret to firms’ long-term success and it’s something that virtually all businesses strive for. However, succeeding in cultivating a positive image can prove tricky. To help you achieve this, here are three tips that should make building your brand easier.    1. Create the perfect persona for your business Firstly, think carefully about what exactly you want your brand to say. The process of creating a persona for your company shouldn’t be rushed. By taking your time and really analysing your options, you can ensure you put in place robust foundations for your firm’s image…

Tips for Vacationing in Jakarta

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Looking for a truly unique vacation destination? Jakarta can provide a once in a lifetime place for a perfect holiday. Whether you are turning a business trip into a vacation, passing through on your tour of Java, or heading specifically for a good time in Jakarta. Here are some tips for vacationing in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capitol city. Stay Cool Jakarta is well known for its oppressive heat.  The vacationer in the know, has many tools at their disposal to beat the heat. One good way is to plan your day around temperatures. This means heading out to do your shopping…

How to spend your free time enjoyably

Everyone has free time, even the most busiest of businessmen still have a few minutes to kill while in a taxi or on an airplane. In fact, it’s important for your brain to take a break from hyper focusing on work and school. So, check out this post for a few ideas on how you can spend those extra seconds, minutes or hours giving your brain a rest, but at the same time enjoying yourself. Checkout some fun online games. First there was Snood, then there was Angry Birds, and now there is Slither.io. There are a wealth of free…

Top 5 things to do for a foodie weekend in St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg at the mouth of River Neva has quite a distinct feeling, as anyone who’s visited this city will tell you. We all love food and as this is probably something we all like to travel for here are the top 5 things (opinions may vary of course) to do for a foodie weekend in St. Petersburg the moment you arrive there. Our recommendations try to blend in a few high-end restaurants and places for traditional food, so no matter what kind of budget you’re on you’ll be good to go. Masha and Bear Masha and Bear is a typical…

Taking time to relax around Dublin in Phoenix Park

It might be surprising to learn that Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has some of the country’s most beautiful and picturesque natural areas. Despite being a huge city Dublin has some great areas for you to sit down and relax. I visited Dublin a few weeks back to review some of the city’s best sights, giving you a couple of low cost suggestions for fun things to do when you’re looking to relax around Dublin. I started off from the Phoenix Park Travelodge Dublin Hotel, saving money while staying just next to the first big natural attraction in the city.…

The Best Travel Apps for 2016

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We are more and more reliant on our phones and tablets for ever aspect of our life so what makes traveling any different? Take a look at some of the most popular and best travel apps for 2016 and make sure you are ready to have the best possible time on your next trip. Google The search giant has long since ventured into a variety of industries and travel is no different. Google Flights allows you to “farecast” with the best of them. You can pick flexible dates and even flexible locations to ensure you get the lowest fares possible. Once you get…

Lose weight the easy way with Groupon

It’s really not easy to lose weight, and especially not in the US where junk food is incredibly cheap, and where a reputed one in three people are considered to be medically obese. One of the biggest problems is staying motivated in your quest to lose weight, because it’s so difficult to stick to some boring old diet week in, week out. But what if you could lose weight the easy way with liposuction? Just suck all that fat out and you’re as good as new in no time at all! Liposuction doesn’t have to be expensive either, not if you take…

Want to Save on travel? Check Out Groupon Coupons!

If you like to travel, then you’ve come to the right blog post because we’ve got some great news! The biggest deal-a-day coupon provider, Groupon, has now entered the internet coupon niche and they’re going big. They have utilized their resources and created strategic alliances with more than 9,000 different stores, services and retailers. What does this mean? Well, how about more than 70,000 active coupons! The coolest part about it all is that you don’t need to sign up for anything on the Groupon website to have access to all the coupons, you just need to “show up”! Groupon knows that travel is…