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Travel Plans

As vacation season approaches, our interest in traveling increases. I addition to my recent trip to India I have made some other trips on the job or on vacations and I collected some interesting websites that can assist in planning trips, cross-country meetings or even dealing with other cultures. Have a nice trip!

First of all, what time is it … there? To avoid calling someone in another country without noticing it is 4:00AM. I strongly suggest consulting TimeAndDate. In my personal page, I have two links to this site: one to the “Personal World Clock” and another to the “Meeting Planner”. It works great when my group is organizing concalls with people in India, in Europe, in Brazil (of course) and in California/USA.

Another preoccupation: how much is it? (or how much it was, when you’re creating your expense reports). I usually recommend oanda website converter. It allows you to convert between many currencies in specific dates and also allows you to print a convenient conversion table for your wallet. If you are traveling in vacations, probably it is a good idea searching on the Internet for the price of food (as well as taxis, museums, shows...). It is a good way to forecast expenses (emailing the hotel can work too) - I failed to do that in the past and it was, let say, an unpleasant surprise.

Of course you should access the weather forecast, for example for São Paulo.

When I was going to Bangalore, India I studied some cultural habits. The information I got on Executive Planet, on International SOS and on many other searches in Google was a lifesaver to me.

If your read until this point in such a long post, you deserve a premium: Yahoo! Trip Planner is a very nice trip planner that can be shared, printed, personalized... I strongly recommend. I used it in the past and will certainly plan my next trip on it - in fact, I already started!

See you there!

Comments

Stock Buster said…
Eduardo!

I like your site's recommendations!
I didn’t know oanda.com, very interesting.

Why you don't write with more frequently? Your are a really international travel man, and I believe that you have a lot o tip to put in your blog...

keeping in touch,
Carlos.
Wronowski said…
Thank you Carlos, I appreciate the feedback. I'll create a mailing list to alert for new messages - I liked the idea of you good blog: http://stock-buster.blogspot.com/

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