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Airport shopping bargains: Not just duty free
Why anyone looking to stock up on drink at airport shops shouldn’t be too put off by the duty free limit. The problem with duty free booze shopping is that there are limits on
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What is the best haggling technique?
When there’s no fixed price and you’ve got to negotiate, what’s the best way of going about it? David Whitley explains his own blundering haggling techniques. For someone who has grown up in green
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Beware of the nuns: Souvenir-shopping in the Vatican
David Whitley discovers that the pushy salespeople inside St Peter’s Square have bad habits… You don’t want to mess with a pushy nun. Once they get the bit between their teeth, they’re difficult to
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The oldest country in the world
David Whitley heads to San Marino expecting 18 centuries of glorious history, but finds that it has succumbed to a distinctly 21st century plague. As the bus climbs precariously, zig-zagging ever upwards in a
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Christmas presents for travellers
76 Christmas (or birthday) gifts for travel-lovers If you’re anything like me, you’re generally hopeless when it comes to buying presents. But my wife has a harder task. She’ll often find something perfect a
Read More »Ten things America could really do with getting over
Over the last couple of months, I’ve spent a fair bit of time in the United States. On the whole, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. The US is a fantastically varied country with many stories
Read More »Grumpy Traveller’s money saving tips
I may be grumpy, but I am also tight. And while there are reams of guides to getting cheap hotel rooms and flights out there, there are a few travel money savers which I
Read More »All I want for Christmas is a Montserrat football kit
Or a Vanuatu rugby kit. That would do nicely as well. Heck, I’d even accept a Dominica cricket shirt if I could get hold of one. Travellers’ collections I should perhaps explain a
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