Travelling

Essay Outline

Argument: I would have to agree that the best way to travel is in a tour group led by a guide.

Support 1: When I travel to a new country, I do not know the language and it can be very difficult to navigate.

Support 2: I would want to travel with a tour guide because I could make friends with all 

the people in my tour group.

Support 3: Travelling in a tour led group is safer.

Thesis: All in all, I believe the best way to travel is with a tour led group. This is because the tour can be very

helpful and can make your more comfortable. Also, It is easier to make friends a tour group and It

is safer to travel with a group.

Model Essay

I would have to agree that the best way to travel is in a tour group led by a guide. First, when I travel to

places, I don’t know the language or directions tn that country. Second, in a tour group that is led by a guide, I can make many new friends. Third, travelling in a group is safer. Since having a tour guide gives us many benefits, I prefer to travel with one.

First, when I travel to a country, I do not know the language and it can be very difficult to navigate.

However, the tour guide knows, so he can navigate the roads and markets more conveniently. When I traveled to

France, I didn’t know any of the language there. However, the tour guide took me to the markets, helped me buy

things, and knew how to get to the smaller tourist spots with ease. I was very thankful to him because he saved me a lot of time. At that moment, I was very happy to have a tour guide.

Second, I would want to travel with a tour guide because you can make friends with all the people in your

tour group. For example. I went to Hawaii and went on a tour guide led group. I met some great people from all

around the world, because he forced us to to know each other. You are forced to spend a lot of time with these

people so it is easier to become friends. I think this is a good thing because I can make some great friends With people around the world.

Third, travelling in a tour led group is safer. When travelling to a foreign Country, you are never aware of the

true dangers in a country because you do not live there. You could walk into a bad neighborhood and become a target for thieves. A tour guide will take you to all the tourist areas that are safe and If you want to go out on your own you can ask for advice on which areas you should stay in.

All in all, I believe the best way to travel is with a tour led group. This is because the tour guide will be very

helpful and can make your Visit more comfortable. Also, It is easier to make friends a tour group and is safer to

travel with a group. So, I think it would be a good decision to travel with a tour group.

The masterpiece of fantasy with unforgettable little people, giant people, flying islands, and talking horses, Jonathan Swift creates a new popular genre of realistic novel which is to present plausible details as if they were literally true through the book Gulliver’s Travels. Swift first published the book in London with the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World with the alias Lemuel Gulliver. Only a few knew that the real author was Dr. Swift, the distinguished Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.

Many people including, Samuel Johnson, remember the novel as a as “a production so new and strange that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. ” Swift arises emotions by comparing and contrasting the church and state in the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Lilliputians, the small people, are used to bring about state control and religious minimization. They had a strict and concise government often portraying life as complicated and complex.

The inhabitants of Lilliput do not raise their children but instead send them to distant schools near the capital city where the children are raised by teachers and other members of the school system. Parents can interact with their children only twice a year creating a barrier between the relationship between the two generations. However, children of the poor are able to stay at home and share the workload with their parents. The separation between the rich and the poor class depicts the governments view on society and how it should be run.

The governing system of Lilliput attempts to portray equalization and equal opportunities, but, in context of terms and actions one is able to witness the separating factors of class separation and distinction. The power is mainly held in the hands of the emperor who is able to mandate decrees and create laws, although the approval of the people and government officials is also needed. An example would be when the “emperors father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. (40)

The government of the Lilliputians is in direct control of the people. They are able to make decisions and regarding every aspect and nature of the Lilliputians- both socially and politically while the church plays no role at all. The mention of a religious organization or association is never mentioned in the novel and the audience is led to assume that their was no major role if their was a church. The state plays a dominating role in the lives of the Lilliputians making it difficult to let any other institution come in the way, including a religious one.

Enabling a religious or church association would put the Lilliputian government at a disadvantage, letting the people have an alternative voice to listen too. In the island of the Borabdingnagians there is a dominant role of the church and a simple and broad role of the government, a contrast to the Lilliputians. The people of Borabdingnag attend Sabbath on Wednesdays displaying their dedication and devotion to the church. The respect and responsibility of the people to attend Sabbath enable the audience to understand the major role of the Church in the lives of the citizens.

Their religious aspect and beliefs shape their morals and in effect play a major role in every aspect of their lives. Unlike the citizens of Lilliput the Church is the dominating organization in which the political government is in accordance with. The government is described as being simple and broad a collaboration of “narrow principles and short views” (135) . The simplicity of the government enables the Church to play a more dominant role and influence the lives of the Borabdingnagians.

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Gulliver’s Travels is a satire done by Jonathan Swift, who is among the great authors in the fields of drama, prose and poetry. This was a collection of tales written during the Augustan Age, which can be referred to as the neo classical age, the age of Queen Anne, the age of pope or simply the 18th Century, in England. Satire was developed in Rome by Juvenal, Persius and Horace.

The elements of satire as a style makes it the best of Jonathan Swift’s writing skill employed in the Gulliver’s Travel to help him achieve his goal; not to earn a living from writing as most of his articles were published anonymously, but to attack thin learning, to show his audience how a Christian should live and attacks man’s ability to reason.

The tales in this book show Swift’s view of man as a weak and selfish character, one not in a position to make the right decisions when faced with challenges. Swift believes that man can find neither peace nor prosperity via his natural goodness and reason, but strongly believes that religion, through the church would keep man from destroying himself.

He is considered a misanthrope and satirist at the same time as he narrates the political, religious, educational and economical values of the Great Britain and its relationship to Ireland through the four books that are classified according to the voyages he made as Lemuel Gulliver, the narrator. The element of setting and era is represented by the voyages by sea, either in fictional places, as shown by his visit to Lillipu, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhmns or real countries like Japan and England made by Lemuel Gulliver.

Gulliver is introduced as an Englishman, whose background is in medicine, navigation and mathematics. He comes out as a character who loves to travel and learn about people and his character is honest, naïve and uses his common sense in order to survive in various life threatening situations, like the case when he finally regains his consciousness after sleeping for long hours and finds himself tied up by the Lilliputians.

Realism is used to explain how Gulliver finally finds himself in Lilliput, the land of the small people, almost six inches tall. This was as a result of the wreckage of his ship, Antelope, in which he served as a surgeon. Traveller narrative was the form through which Swift expressed his criticism and satire since his audience enjoyed reading about explorations and discoveries of new lands. Through Lilliput, Swift uses Gulliver to gain the confidence of his readers as they associate with Gulliver’s honesty, naivety and peace loving nature.

It is at this point where Gulliver uses common sense to survive instead of being violent. He gains the King’s trust and is the granted his freedom and engages on the political structure and situation in Lilliput. The people here are prone to jealousy and conspiracy, with a division which they refer to as the Big-endians and Small-endians. These help illustrate the political and religious disputes in England.

The Lilliputian Empire is a satire of King George the 1st; the king with his nationality as a German, who through marriage succeeded Queen Anne’s throne. The empire, like King George, uses the blue, red and green ribbons during the rope dance to buy political support. This was the same case as that in England where the Garter, Bath and Thistle were used. Gulliver thought that the rope dance was not as effective as religious qualifications or reason to entrust a person in any leadership position.

Gulliver proceeds to show that Flimnap the Lilliputian treasurer was the best rope dancer. This is his worst enemy both politically and at personal levels. It is evident that he compares him with Robert Walpole, the 1st England prime minister who had ruled for more than twenty years. Here, Gulliver and Flimnap represent the Tori and Whig parties respectively.

The Tori party is shown as the party that believed in the power of the King and the church and usually honest and transparent in their discussions for they were for the good of everyone. The Whigs on the other hand were for the argument that there was need for a parliament to check on the powers of the King.

The Emperor ensured that Lilliput was safe from the Blufascu, the Big-endians.The disagreement between the small-endians and the bigiendians has a history that relates well with that of England’s religious dispute. King Henry VII, the father to Queen Elizerbeth is presented as a satire to show how he broke the Catholic hold of England when he created the Church of England. Gulliver does not see any reason for the disputes and refuses to be used as a weapon of war against Blufascu, but agrees to help them stop the war and is given the greatest tittle in Lilliput as the Nardac.

This was the same case during the treaty of Utrecht, that though stoped the war, it was questionable. An illustration similar to this is when Gulliver urinates on the palace to save it from burning and yet it was against the rules of Lilliput to make water around the palace, yet he had saved the empiror’s life, the empress among alongside some officials including Flimnap were angry with his behavior and wanted him executed as a punishment.

The reader would agree with Gulliver for using any means available to save the emperor’s life despite the method used and that it doesn’t matter which side of the egg should be broken before eating it. It is also possible that the reader would agree with Gulliver’s view of not being used as a weapon of mass destruction during war and that any nation lucky to have such a weapon should use it for encouraging peace. The same could be argued for the case of the both the Catholic and Protestants on basis of religion as they represent Big and Small Endians respectively.

Gulliver agrees to pay a visit to Blufascu when her citizens come to negotiate for peace. When Gulliver heard about the Lilliputian’s plot to blind him and starve him to death instead of killing him at once, he ran away to Blufascu. This is a frown upon Bolingbroke and Oxford’s impeachment when it was agreed they be accused of misdemeanors as opposed to treason. For the fear of trial, they run for refuge in France. It is evident that Gulliver was large and with a great potential here to choose violence, instead chose peace.

He then finds his way into an English ship headed back to England from Japan along the South Seas and to show realism indicates the date as 13th April 1702, then organizes yet another adventure to India on 16th June 1703, where following strong winds and twenty days of lost direction discover land, Brabdingnag. Brabdingnag, the land of the giants is used to show how disgusting people are, especially how the human body smells and man’s ignorance.

This was Swift’s chance to express his feelings that there would be much larger forces that could potentially put an end to the world stage of English dominance. The Brabdingnagians are represented here as peaceful and whose simple rules are based on reason. He uses the King to question the English leadership and takes the chance of the King’s inquisitive nature to explain the politics, social and economic status of England.

The questions included how the nobles were educated, their nature, whether greedy or corrupt, the basis of bishops’ promotions and if this was based on religion or goodness and knowledge, whether the house of commons’ members spent much money to be elected, whether justice was time and money intensive for the citizens to have, and lastly, he was also interested to know whether lawyers valued money and pleaded for wrong causes.

As Gulliver explained some of the questions, the king wondered how a small man’s society, the size of Gulliver would think of gun powder to produce such an instrument that would destroy so many lives. Those ruling the English society are expressed as ignorant, vice and idle through Gulliver’s stay at Brabdingnag. Gulliver is not happy when the King laughs about England based on the fact that he never imagined that such small people had tittles, distinctions and that they built nests and holes that they called houses and cities.

The queen also criticized Gulliver for cowardice when he was uncomfortable with the flies that he describes as disgusting, with a terrible smell. Though they were loving and kind to him, he was not comfortable living a humiliating life and disliked the greedy nature of the farmer who focuses on profit from showing Gulliver to audience at the expense of his health then sells him when sick to the queen.

Some of the Brabdingnagians were caring like Glundalclitch, his nurse who had nicknamed him Grildrig. She was not as ignorant, but at some times, she had left Gulliver unguarded at the palace and a guard’s dog had picked and delivered him to its master. Had the dog not been trained, it would have caused him his life.

Gludalclitch’s friend was ignorant when given the responsibility to take Gulliver to the sea, a mistake that had given the eagles a chance to grab Gulliver’s travelling box and latter dropped into the sea, rescued by the ship crew and a caring captain who offers him food and rest in his cabin as opposed to the rest of the crew that had so many questions for him. Gulliver makes yet another voyage that lands him to Laputa, the floating island, after his ship is attacked by pirates. In Laputa, pursuit of knowledge in music, science and philosophy is held at high esteem while people neglect their social affairs and common sense.

The obsessed Laputian men neglect their wives to their obsession for astronomy that the sun might burn out and hence their wives become adulterous with men from Balnibarbi, an earth-bound city, that have no such preoccupations. He observes that even with their knowledge, they have unfitting clothes, build houses that lack accurate right angles, and the experiments that are carried out by the Projectors at Lugado are almost impossible to achieve and a waste of their knowledge and resources.

This projects include the recovery of sun beams from cucumbers, converting human excrement to the food from which it was digested, manufacture of silk from cobwebs, rooftop downwards construction of houses and writing books without exerting ones brains on various subjects. He challenges the academic intellectuals and planners who engage in the pursuit of theories that are practically useless in England, a mockery of the loyal society’s absurd inventions at that time.

The Laputa king uses the floating island as a weapon to threaten and intimidate the cities bellow so that they can provide food and the necessities of life on the floating island. Failure to this, the island would be used to cut off rain and sunshine on such cities or even crush it by landing the floating island on those cities or using bombs. The city of Lindalino successfully revolts and the attempts to lower the floating island on it had been unsuccessful.

This is an allegory of the revolt that Ireland makes against England’s adopted international and foreign violent politics. Gulliver feels neglected by the people at Laputa for they value the knowledge of both music and mathematics, which he does not have. The King allowed him to travel to Balnibarbi where he meets Lord Munodi at Lagado. Among the houses in Lagado, only Munodi’s was beautiful and well kept.

This was as a result of a travel to Laputa made by the people of Lagado that motivated them to open an academy and develop new theories in Agriculture and Mathematics that ruined their land’s productivity except that of Munodi who had refused and only followed the theories passed down from his ancestors. Gulliver is disappointed that resources are being used to fund unhealthy and unrealistic projects while the citizens are suffering in both poverty and hunger and decides to go back to England through Japan.

The academy of Lagado is used to eplain how the Royal Society of Dublin misused funds allocated due to the hunger for inventions in England. This was the time of great Physicians, Mathematicians and Astronauts including Newton, who concentrated on inventions only to forget about their social life. The projects in the Royal Society of Dublin were used as means to acquire wealth and the arm-chair technicians among other hosts of mad inventions that resulted into financial crisis among which was the South Sea Bubble.

The desire of humans to reverse both the past and historical figures is criticized for he reminds his audience that they were normal people. Immortality is also mocked since the people who possess this thought noble gift are presented as selfish, petty and eternally sad. Gulliver never liked the life in this part of the world and decided to return to England through the island of Luggnagg.

There is no ship ready at Balnibarbi to take him to Luggnagg and together with two friends from Maldonada port city; he tours Glubbdubdrb Island, the land of magicians, headed by a governor with the power to summon the spirit of the dead for a twenty four hour service at his palace. Gulliver befriends the governor and is allowed to call any person from the dead and ask them questions only if he agreed to confine his questions to the period when they were still alive.

He summons famous heroes starting with Alexander the Great, the conqueror of both the Greece and Percia, followed by Hannibal who concurred Romans by crossing into North Italy from North Africa through Alps, Julius Caesar who, first Roman Emperor alongside his rivalry Pompey the Great and Marcus Junius Brutus who was responsible for Caesar’s assassination to help prevent the development of a hereditary monarchy in the Roman Republic.

Satire in Glubdubdrib is used to show that history actually lies and that those who kill tyrants as they seek freedom should be appreciated. He really encourages the terrible suggestion that one would do the right thing by assassinating King George 1. This is evident where Julius actually confesses that there was nothing braver or even better that he did than what Brutus did by assassinating him for the sake of the Roman Republic..

Gulliver also shows the need to learn from smart people in the society, but being cautious not to be misled by the stupid people who write commentary. People who like Eustathius and Didymus become famous for commenting on Homer’s literature works. The same case applied to John Duns who is famous for commenting on the literature works of Aristotle. Both Homer and Aristotle are not aware of people who became famous as a result of commenting on their works.

Through this, Gulliver advocates for people becoming famous by their original contributions in literature and ethical models, as opposed to their endless talks about those developed by other people. He supports applied learning just as he opposes the Royal Academy of projectors and strongly encourages useful learning in England, which practical philosophy and applied science are examples.

He then goes back to England and becomes captain of his own ship from which he is marooned on Houyhnhnm Island, land of the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos.The first encounter with the Yahoos, with physical appearance as that of man, violent, brutal, cowardly hairy but naked symbolizes the follies in human beings. Houyhnhnms on the other hand are reasonable and smart horses that. This is the only place that Gulliver

Strategy plays a very important place in today business environment. Those organizations without strategic plan are in risk to be taken by those companies that do have one in place. According to Johnson, G. , et al, strategic management is likely to be concern with long-term decisions and direction of the organization, with the core activity of such organization and the way by how the organization can achieve the correct positioning in order to obtain competitive advantage. The chosen organization to be analyzed by this report has been Travelodge.

As a way to fully understand how to implant business strategies and how to differentiate the types of strategy; we will first cover the business context of such organization. We will fully explain their strategic approach and services analysis. In terms of quality Travelodge offers “no frills” standards rooms with all the basics customers need for a good and comfortable night sleep at a cheap price. Its facilities offer an acceptable level of quality and include regular bathrooms, TV, coffe/tea facilities, vending machines and cafe bar.However, a secret investigation carried out by the bighospitality. co. uk pointed out that the cleanliness standard of its rooms is very faulty, despite of the fact that Travelodge claim to offer a reliable level of quality to its customers. According to Slack et al, customers will accept a service of a lower specification quality if the price is low. Therefore, customers believe that the quality of Travelodge services is in accordance with their value-based approach, which defines it in terms of cost and price. Travelodge also offers a dependable website for the booking of its rooms and mobile booking services.

Rooms are available for booking 12 months in advance. Their online services count for a 87% of bookings, therefore they are highly dependable of their website. In order to focus on their core strategy, they outsource the management of its website to ATENDA. This supplier has enabled Travelodge 24 hours a day, 7 days a week availability and support of its website (Atenda. net) They also offer extra services such as breakfast, dinner, WIFI or late check out, both online and face to face, in order to meet customer’s expectation. Therefore, as it can be seen, they are highly aware of customeri s particularities.

In order to raise flexibility of their services among customers, there is the possibility to book flexible rooms that may be cancelled or amended until the date of arrival with not additional charges. Moreover, the company also operates a relocation policy; thus if a room is unavailable on arrival they will either provide a room in another hotel or the booking cancellation and money refund. Travelodgei s strategy of expansion and development is base on a program of building conversion; therefore it provides a great flexibility to the hotel in setting above or below other uses. According customers reviews, for instance at Tripadvisor.

com, Travelodge offer the possibility to its clients to make complains through their website and the lag time response normally takes five working days. Travelodge makes an effort to study customersi needs. Travelodge was one of the first holiday Inn and was Lunched in UK in 1985 and currently UK’s major finest hotel with about 460 hotel across the world with branches in Spain, Germany, and Republic of Ireland and across UK. It was estimated that over 7million people visited Travelodge and like and it figures has risen since then. According to statistics 87% of its reservations were made online at www. travelodge.

Travelodge currently has the highest number of staff than its competitors with around 6000 staffs. Growth, Travelodge is looking to expand from its current size of 32,000 bedrooms to about 100,000 rooms in addition 1000 new hotels would be created before 2025 and would be achieved according to it spokesperson. 60% of its growth will be achieved from this new development, while 20% would be as a result of converting office blocks and warehouses. Travelodge has targeted towns and city centres around England, and areas like the M25 M11 and A13.

Travelodge currently has about 44 hotels in within the M25 district with the largest number of bedrooms of over 5,780 and it said to be the highest amongst its competitors within the M25 area. In addition seven more hotels are under construction. Travelodge has said to be the highest with over 6,561 bedrooms a 5. 5% share of London hotel market. In 2007 33 new Travelodge hotel was opened the figures grew in 2008 to 42 and in 2009 it was 22 and in 2010 it recorded the highest among its competitors with 74 new hotels Travelodge has targeted areas such as Bristol Cambridge Lancaster Birmingham London Stratford and Greater Manchester.

Low pricing strategy: since its inception Travelodge has been known for its price slashing amongst its competitors encouraging people to use Travelodge is aimed in delivering good value for money commitment to operational efficiency driven by low cost. This year Travelodge will offer rooms for as cheap as I 29 or less. Online: online reservation grew to 87% which was easier for customers to book in advance which can be found on their website also the website was easy to access less than 5mins you could book any room of your choice and save the time of walking into any of its branches.

You can also book in advance it attracted over 2. 2 million visitors from around the world each month, in 2008 Travelodge was UK most visited website offering not only cheaper rooms but also customers who are looking to save cost on their travel expenditure turn to Travelodge. Employment: Travelodge employs entry level staff from different employment agencies and also in job centres and the local employment partnership 90% of staff employed into Travelodge where recruited from LEP and there are also working in partnership with job centres to become the highest employment organisation.

67% of employers comes from the local job centres while another 70% from LEP. Product: in the current bid to attract more customers for the 2012 Olympics, Travelodge introduced a bar cafe in 2007. The Travelodge cafe was fashioned with a modern style with a mixture of red white and blue and its rich furnishing and coloured lighting. A stylish flat screen TV and wireless internet system to attract more visitors. The room suite has updated its facilities to reflect the style this design was the first to be introduced since its inception in 1985.

Life has different ways of showing people the realities of life. There were some who would opt to live life distinctly, so that they may be able to see the realities offered to them. The documentary, T-Shirt Travels, was a documentary that focused on how poverty consumed the people of Zambia. Bloemen showed how the people were treated unfairly. The documentary was able to show the realities that other people were unaware of. It was heartbreaking to know that the charity work being done by citizens of the United States were being transformed into a business in Zambia.

One of the famous charities in the United Sates was the Salvation Army. In the documentary, it was stated that the clothes would be sent in bundles to third world countries to be sold. Such actions were pitiful, for the people who had less in life had to suffer, just to be given the privilege of wearing western clothes. The interviews included in the documentary were also factors to be considered. The said interviews also made the documentary more realistic, primarily because the instances included in the paper showed how difficult life was in Zambia.

It was heartbreaking to see the status of the people at that time. In addition to this, I felt furious with how the people of Zambia were being treated by people from the West. It was heartbreaking to know that the people of Zambia had to suffer the consequences of poverty. Furthermore, the viewers are brought to a realization of how people from all over the world are treated unfairly. The clothes that were being donated by people from the United States were unfairly sold to people in Zambia. Watching the documentary made me feel fortunate about my current status in life.

I am able to buy brand new clothes, without having to worry about having to pay excessively. The people from Zambia, on the other hand, are being cheated by the very people who have offered their services. Such economically challenged country should not be used in trying to earn much money. Instead, they should be the very basis of care and support from countries that have more in life. From everything that has been seen and said in the documentary, I believe that people in position should become more aware of the harsh realities of life.

People in position should take the initiative to fix the disturbing acts that have been occurring in people from all over the world. In addition to this, the people from the third world countries, such as Zambia, should be given more importance as compared to first world countries. These countries have difficulty in trying to improve the poverty in their area, but tend to fail because they are being abused greatly. It is never too late to help in the upheaval of society. We just have to work hard and believe that we can fulfill these improvements for the betterment of society.

Frequent Travelers Many people have vacation horror stories to tell. Usually, poor planning is the reason behind such negative talk. The tips listed here will help you to have an enjoyable vacation experience. Leave your valuables at home. If you decide to bring valuables, you could lose them, or they could even be stolen. Air travel requires a bit of planning. If an airport Is In a major city, It can be quite difficult to get to, especially during rush hour when traffic is at its heaviest. Pack what you can the night before our flight so you are sure to be ready to leave the next day.

Dont walt until the last minute to prepare for your flight. There is little else that could be worse than not making your flight. Anytime you are going to be driving to a different city before going on a cruise, check to see if there is a hotel that has fee parking, and get there the night before. You may want to contact the hotel administration about potential deals that they offer on parking even if it doesn’t look like any are available. Prior to flying, make a quick trip to the gym. Being on a flight for a long period of time can be iresome.

Your legs and back can cramp up from sitting a long time. Working out prior to a long flight can relax your body and reduce uncomfortable feelings in your body due to the flight. Always go out of your way to tip any bell station and housekeeper appropriately. The typical tip is a dollar per bag of luggage and anywhere from two to five dollars per day for housekeeping. Doing so will ensure that you have a nice relationship with both during your hotel stay. Stores tend to overcharge for these Items, and the space saved Is minimal, so save the money.

Try olding your clothes in innovative ways that will take up less space. Following these tips can help you find even more room In your bags. Taking sleeping pills will help you get through a long flight. This can help you to sleep in a situation that many are uncomfortable In, on board an airplane Take a mild sleeping pill to get you through the flight. Nothing too strong, but enough to make you drowsy. Refrain from taking sleeping medication before you actually take off. If your flight Is delayed, you will likely need to remain wide awake to make other arrangements.

Make sure that your assports are valid. Different areas of the world have different rules regarding passports. Most countries will not permit you to enter with an expired passport if it is within a given time frame. These periods usually range anywhere from a year to three months. The reason for some of the worst stories about traveling happen because the traveler didnt think ahead and plan correctly. You now have the advice needed to take the worry from your vacation and find the relaxation that you deserve. Wise Travel Tips And Tricks From Frequent Travelers By bassantbadr planning.

If an airport is in a major city, it can be quite difficult to get to, especially your flight so you are sure to be ready to leave the next day. Don’t wait until the last overcharge for these items, and the space saved is minimal, so save the money. Try tips can help you find even more room in your bags. Taking sleeping pills will help uncomfortable in, on board an airplane. Take a mild sleeping pill to get you through sleeping medication before you actually take off. If your flight is delayed, you will because the traveler didn’t think ahead and plan correctly. You now have the advice

TRAVELLING ABROAD IS A WASTE OF MONEY I strongly disagree that travelling abroad is a waste of money because we can learn history of civilizations, we can learn cultures of different peoples and we can witness the greatness of Allah. Firstly, in Surah Al- Ankabut: 20, Allah says : “ Travel the earth then see how He makes the first creation, then Allah creates the latter creations… ” What this verse indicates is the disappearance of one nation to give place to another. For instance, the nation of the Pharaohs has been replaced by modern Egypt.

Other nations which have disappeared include the people of Ad and Thamud in the Middle-East. Through travelling we can learn the history and witness the remains of these civilizations. Secondly, we can learn the cultures of different peoples around the world. In Surah Ruum: 22, Allah says : “ And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colours.. ”. Hence, if we travel from China across to Europe, we will see peoples of different looks, colours, sizes, cultures, languages, and ways of living.

They include Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Persians, Arabs, and Europeans. All look different from one another, speak different languages, and practise different cultures. Finally, in Surah Ibrahim : 32, Allah says : “ Allah… made ships subservient to you to run their course in the sea by His command ,and He has made the rivers subservient to you. ” This verse tells us that Allah provides the facilities for mankind to travel( by sea or river ). In so doing one can appreciate the creations and greatness of Allah.

For instance, sailing in the seas will give us the opportunity to see sharks, beautiful islands, and the huge waves. Sailing in the rivers will give us the opportunity to see the numerous floras and faunas, rapids, and waterfalls. Although travelling abroad does cost a lot of money, inconvenience and sometimes have to face some difficulty, in my opinion, travelling abroad is not a waste of money because of the benefits we can get from it. [336 words]