savvy travel
24/Savvy Travel: Sydney, Australia
Adjust your seat belt, watch, time clock, and sleep pattern. Travel requires constant adjustments. The sooner you make them the better.
The first thing they tell you when you take a seat on a plane is to adjust your seat belt. This is a "no brainer" as a loose seat belt can be troubling in turbulence...
Call me spoiled, but hotels just aren't good enough for me anymore. No, sir. I could be staying at the Ritz in Paris, but traveling requires a certain amount of creature comforts and unless I can have my own mini-kitchen where I can prepare my own mini-tea, mini yogurts, and mini-mid-day sandwiches, hotels just don't cut the mustard.
In...
24/Savvy Mom: New York, NY
What comes to mind when you think of a 20-hour road trip with three young kids? Maybe a pounding headache or memories from your own childhood vacations.
Before we had three children, my husband and I loved road trips. We escaped the city, listened to our favorite music and had meaningful conversations. Obviously with...
We've been doing a little traveling this week (you didn't even notice we were gone, did you?) and thought we had seen the last word in airline thrift when domestic flights stopped serving food right around the time they started charging for even one checked bag. But 'lo and behold friends, it gets stingier: on our recent sojourn with Penny-Pinch...
Weekend bags for we savvistas have to equal roomy bags: spacious enough to fit clothes for a minimum two-night getaway (when you can just start to relax) PLUS all our beauty essentials. With our Savvy Seven picks, you can squeeze it all in there, no cramming necessary.
French Market Bag Burlap and Jute Ruffle Tote, $45 at etsy.com: So...
24/Savvy Travel: Sydney, Australia
If you travel, if you have to travel, if you think travel is a destination or preference you will still face this one constant; the food is crap. Airline food is made in hope that you won’t notice its cardboard texture and questionable nutritional value by an appeal to the aesthetic of being ten thousand metres above...
A lot of savvy friends are planning a "staycation" for their holidays this year in lieu of the allure of exotic destinations and their requisite--and pricey--air tickets, hotels and restaurant meals. While staycations can be a wonderful opportunity to sit back, relax, regroup, and tackle those projects you've been putting off (you know who you are...
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