China is completely app-driven these days. Everything is handled by one app or another. Here are some of the most essential. Payment Cash is rarely...
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Planning a Trip to China: Everything You Actually Need
Apps, payments, trains, hotels and the traps nobody warns you about. What I worked out preparing six weeks in China, including where AI helped and...
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Planning a trip, step 1: Choose Where and When to Go
Planning a trip starts with two questions: where, and when. One you may have answered already. The other takes a little more work. Here is...
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Planning a trip, step 2: Research Without Overthinking
Research is useful up to a point. Past that point it becomes a reason not to go. The goal of research is to arrive knowing...
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Planning a trip, step 3: Pack Light and Go
The first thing to get right is what goes in your bag. Pack light. Then take out half of what you packed. This is not...
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India Travel Tips: What You Actually Need to Know
The tips I wish someone had given me before my first morning in Mumbai. Visas, money, trains, food, Goa, Kerala, photography, and the honest part.
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Travel preparation, security, and safety
Practical security advice for independent travelers: how to protect your passport, credit cards, and smartphone on the road, how to prepare before you leave home,...
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The Safe in Your Hotel Room
That steel box in the wardrobe looks reassuring. Here is why it is not.
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Five Things I Always Do Before a Long Trip
These are not the obvious things. Not “book early” or “pack light” — you know those already. These are the habits I have developed over...
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