Places and Memories: 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Intergenerational Travel

We usually think that it would be very hard for elderlies to go travel far places but it is still possible. Not only it is possible, it can be the best moment in their lives.Even elderlies traveling with their beloved grandchildren can be free from stressful experience.This grandparents-grandchildren travel thing is known as intergenerational travel. The grandparents having fun and the grandchildren having so much fun, travelling together.

Travelling together is the one of the best ideas to spend quality time with you loved ones. The keys to attaining a fun relaxing or stress free travel are advanced planning and scheduled trips especially for the grandparents travelling with their grandchildren. In planning, traveller’s must know their destinations, time to depart, booked tickets if flying by air, weather reports and a budget money list. You must do a little bit of an informal research like what is the most convenient way to get there, what things to bring during trips and things you need when you get to your destinations.It is also very important that both grandparents and grandchildren discuss all the details together before they go and rules for safety.

Do not hesitate to try add up adventures to your trips when you get to your destinations. Let us not forget our main element that should be part for this intergenerational vacation tripis Love and the main goal is to show it to your loved ones. Whatever you do in your trips, sharing together the adventure, fun and experience will surely make all the efforts worthwhile.

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Gillece Plumbing

Gillece Plumbing. I had recently gotten a new job, and my wife and I decided to throw a party for my new boss and some of my colleagues from the office. On the day of the party everything had gone according to plan. My wife was busy in the kitchen cooking and baking. I had gone to the grocery store to get some nice steaks and an extra bag of charcoal for the grill. When I got home chaos was erupting.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Business Travels with your Wife

A husband who travels around the globe frequently can make her wife happy by taking her with you. It may not work out often because of the kids but taking her to some of your trips and transform it into a big date will be a good idea to maintain your loving relationship for each other. A good planning of your dream destinations where he goes on business and smart scheduling will surely make the moment a great experience for you both. A good research of the cheapest fare will also help a lot as to not disturb the family’s budget.

Some companies may be lax in having their employee’s wife travel with them especially if the work performance is really efficient. It is very important also to now corporate policies so that you can know you are not breaking any in terms of allowance. If there is an amount saved, you may want to consider letting her go shopping to the shopping areas or market while you do your business. If shopping is too tight for the budget then maybe you can take ask her if she wants to visit places by herself while you’re still at a business meeting and meet her later or surprise her with a romantic dinner at your room or a restaurant. What more could be fun at work thank accomplishing it and having a relaxing romantic date at the same time.

Travel with Your Pet

The rules to travel abroad with your pet are constantly untightening. Right now, they use ISO microchips that they place on your pet so traveling through airports is not a problem anymore. Most countries use this instead of the universal international health certificate.

Some use Blue Pet Passport. However, the Blue Pet Passport can only be issued by veterinarians in the Europe and it is only valid for travel within European countries. With more airlines that have become pet friendly already on their international routes, traveling with your beloved pets will not be as inconvenient as before.

The pet immigrations has forms and instructions for travelling with your pets. The forms includes pet policies for both the international airlines and policies for cruise ships and ferries. A cute little cuddly pet could never be a hindrance to your fun or important travels. Just make sure that you have what it needs and a planned trip will also help. The most wonderful pet in the world doesn’t deserve to be left home when you travel the world. As I say, whether dogs or not, they are man’s best friend.

Jet Lag and Culture Lag

Jet lag, by Wikipedia, is medically referred to a dysenchronosis. It is a physiological condition from rapid long-distance trans meridian (east-west or west-east) travel usually by airplane. This results from alterations to the body’s circadian rhythms. A circadian rhythm is an endogenously driven roughly 24-hour cycle in biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes. But most of us think that the word lag is mostly used with the word ‘jet’ during travel. To be lagged can also be psychological and this expression known as either cultural jet lag/social jet lag.

Cultural jet lag was first coined by psychologist Marc Perraud. He invented the word when he was doing cross-cultural psychology research. He defines cultural jet lag as phenomenon of partial socialization in adults born from bi-cultural/national unions and whose childhood was characterized by nomadic displacement during key personality development stages.

For example, an American child, born in Thailand with American parents, lived in Thailand for a long time and decided to go back to America. The child who grew up in Thailand, so she is surrounded by a Thai culture which she may have absorbed some or most of it. Her parents are American so she is brought up by an American home but still her environment is a strong element that will still influence her as a person. So when she goes back to America the environment would surely be not the same. It would be hard for her to adopt the culture to blend in. Jet lag or culture lag it is, we don’t want either of it.