Lost Liberties and the Brain Drain
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Destination reports, International living/working | No Comments »In the most recent issue of Perceptive Travel we published a story by Michael Buckley on Lands of Lost Liberties. Buckley has spent plenty of time in repressed places doing articles and researching guidebooks, including Burma and Cuba. While you ...
Useful Honduras Travel Websites
Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, Destination reports, International living/working | 4 Comments »Honduras is one of The World's Cheapest Destinations, with cheap travel awaiting budget backpackers, adventure seekers, and divers looking for the most scuba time for their dollar. Roatan may be on its way to becoming another lame cruise ship port, but ...
House Hunting Abroad
Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in International living/working, Work/Life/Travel Balance | No Comments »We got Tivo earlier this year and it has enabled me to catch each episode of House Hunters International that has aired in the past few months on HGTV. I was skeptical after the first two I saw involved an ...
Who Has the Cheapest Pizza in the World?
Friday, November 16th, 2007 Posted in General, International living/working, Travel bargains | No Comments »Not France, that's for sure. According to the latest "Arbitrage" rundown from the Wall Street Journal, a large Pizza Hut pan pizza with pepperoni will cost you 19 euros, or $27.60 in today's dollars. It had better be good! I ...
4,000 English Teachers in Japan Out of Work
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in International living/working, Work/Life/Travel Balance | No Comments »Last Friday the Wall Street Journal reported that Japan's largest private English tutoring school, Nova Corp., closed its operations last week, leaving over 4,000 teachers unpaid and stranded. For now anyway you can find the article online. Japanese Lesson: How ...
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