This topic is a set of links to some of the generic travel advice, tips, travel links & checklists archived in this Bulletin Board. Click on any of the items below to open them:

1. Travel Tips for Travellers [Owen]
   
2. Footwear Tips for Travellers [Owen]
   
3. Walking Shoes Recommendations??? [various]
   
4. Inflight Exercise Tips for Travellers [Owen]
   
5. Checklist for Travellers [Owen]
   
6. Some Travel Tips for Australian Travellers [phil]
   
7. Travel Tips - Generic [infotrack]
   
8. Travel Tips for Motorcoach Tours [infotrack]
   
9. Travel Checklist [infotrack]
   
10. Rick Steves' Packing List [infotrack]
    
11. Restaurants of Italy [infotrack]
    
12. On-Line Research Resources - Italy [infotrack]
    
13. New to Italy...please read this [Sue Gillen]
    
14. Advice - read guide books before you travel! [Chris Marriott]
    
15. Travel websites [various]
    
16. Weblinks: Treasures of Turkey tour [phil]
    
17. Weblinks: Country Roads of Dalmatia and Adriatic Riviera tour [phil]
    
18. Weblinks: Rome and Surrounds [phil]
    
19. Weblinks: London [phil]
    
20. Morocco [phil]
    
21. Must Buys [various]
    
22. Travel Pictorial Books & Videos [Owen]
    
23. Travel magazines [various]
    
24. Language Tips for Travellers [Owen]
    
25. Bus etiquette questions and Seat Rotation on Tours [various]
    
26. Luggage Size and Luggage and suit cases and carry ons and Weight of Suitcase on bus [various]
    
27. Laundry?, Were Do You Do Your Laundry? and Laundry tips [various]
    
28. Using GSM Cell (Mobile) Phones Internationally [phil]
    
29. Mobile phone (Cellphone) in Europe [various]
    
30. Weblinks to some Insight Premium Tour Hotels, 2004 [phil]
    [NOTE: Insight have provided weblinks to most tour hotels in the hotel description pages near the back of the Insight brochure. If you don't have a brochure, you can download an Adobe Acrobat format version of the brochure from the e-brochure page of Insight's website.]
    
31. Pros and cons of group tours [various]
    
32. Optional procedures [phil]
    
33. Budgeting for tours [phil]
    
34. First Class Tours v's Super Saver Tours [various]
    
35. Travelling solo and sharing and Single Travellers 1 and Single Travellers 2 [various]
    
36. Who Is Going Where In 2008/2009? [PatrickC]
    
37. The Tourist Prayer [ZGordon]
    
38. FastTrack Guest Registration [PatrickC]
    
39. Where are All the Photos and Videos? [Owen]

If you haven't found what you are looking for in the above topics, you can search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, by a particular registered member, by date, and/or by forum. Just click on the Search item in the Find menu.

There's a large archived collection of Travellers' Tales contributed by members of this BB relating their experiences (good and not so good) on Insight tours.

Another good reference source is Travel Tips on the Insight website that includes tour itinerary terminology, guidance on tipping, what to expect on your vacation and numerous practical pointers.

...click for attribution


phil

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When you need to relax after ploughing through the travel advice in the above data links, here are links to a wealth of Travel Advice in some travel-related quotation web sites:

• Quotes on Travel
  
• Famous Travel Quotes
  
• Travel Quotes
  
• Travel Quotes

A few examples:

• 'As I have grown older, I have needed more stars in my hotels.'
  - Anonymous
  
• 'Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.'
  - Stephen Wright
  
• 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.'
  - Anonymous
  
• 'Not all those who wander are lost.'
  - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
  
• 'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.'
  - Mark Twain
  
• 'When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.'
  - John Steinbeck
  
• 'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.'
  - not sure of the origin (contributed by BB member: Sadie. Also quoted in "1,000 Places to See Before You Die".)

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This message has been edited. Last edited by: phil,

Thanks, are there still a number of duplicats?

I though I got most of them at least in the major sections.

I have featured this topic.

Thanks for featuring both topics, John.

My best guesses on the remaining duplicate posts are as follows:

• Insight Vacations Forum: about 5,000 duplicate posts
  
• Travel Advice Forum: looks about right
  
• Archived Posts Forum: looks about right
  
• Tour Tales Forum: about 300-400 duplicate posts
  
• Meeting Friends-Before You Travel Forum: no duplicate posts
  
• Meeting Friends-After You Travel-Stay Intouch Forum: about 250 duplicate posts
  
• Holiday Photos Forum: looks about right

How many actual topics this represents is anyone's guess. The duplicate topics were very obvious in the small Tour Tales Forum but much more difficult to check for in larger forums like the Insight Vacations, Travel Advice and Archived Posts Forums.

Would it help if we "reported" duplicate posts (by clicking on the icon) or would that inundate your PC with messages?

Phil

This message has been edited. Last edited by: phil,

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Thanks for highlighting the forums, I have now deleted all the duplicate posts. And moved posts from the Archived forum into their correct sections or at least tried my best to sort them out.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: John,

John, don't know if you were responding directly to me but the list of advice forums was fabulous- I can get all the info I need! Many thanks

Phil, Thanks for the links they are great! Much better info than from our travel agent!

Hi

Do you have a list of websites for accommodation in London? Thanks heaps for the list of useful info, I have found it very helpful for researching.

Has anyone had Louis Oroschin as a Tour Director? We are off to Vienna, Prague and Budapest in March and would like some 'insight'!
Thanks, Nancy.

This is amazing Phil, top effort pulling all this information together. Thanks also to those who initiated each topic. Well done