Best Travel Deals and News – May 11, 2010 – Travel Gadgets, International Relocation, Survive Shark Attack

by brian on May 11, 2010

Travel news and deals of interest to YOU from around the Web compiled and edited by NoDebtWorldTravel.com:

If you know any great travel stories or tips we all should read, please send it to me and I will put an acknowledgment of your contribution in the posting.

The 10 Most Useful Travel Gadgets of 2010

The fact that you can sterilize a glass of water with the wave of a device the size of a pen is amazing. All the reports say these devices really work.

Knee Defender – Air Travel Meets Passive-Aggressive

There are stories of passengers fighting each other, passengers against flight attendants and the flight attendants fighting each other. Now you are going to stop the person in front of you from leaning back in their airplane seat? Or how about you being the person whose seat is stuck in an upright position because you don’t want the person in front of you in your lap?

10 Tips for International Relocation

Thought about picking up and taking off and settling in a new destination? You’re not alone. Some simple tips on how to get started and what to do when you get there…wherever there is.

Travel Video of the Week

Ziplining in San Francisco

As someone who has ziplined in Costa Rica, something seems soooo wrong about ziplining and seeing concrete buildings and city buses as opposed to lush rain forests and cavorting tree monkeys. But if you can’t be there, this is the next best thing… or enough to spur you on to see the actual place.

And they are not talking about Costa Rica, but British Columbia. Yes, oh Canada.

7 European Destinations Outside Europe
http://news.airtreks.com/post/2010/04/7-european-destinations-outside-europe/

With the strife in Greece, economic crisis, high prices and volcanic ash, lots of folks are thinking about alternatives to Europe. The one I most hear is Buenos Aires, which I’ve repeatedly heard called the ‘Paris of South America’.

What happens when you overstay your Thai tourist visa

The quick answer: both your precious time and money are wasted. Read on.

How to Survive a Shark Attack

For those of you who have deep sea diving in your future, my special travel tip for you, complete with instruction depending on the type of shark you will be fending off. Live out your James Bond adventure and come back to tell about it.