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Best Places To Travel During The Holidays With Your Family
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Light Travel - Carry-On Only
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Photography Tips While Traveling
Whether you’re embarking on a family vacation or your family reunion, it’s going to be a special time. When we think of trips we’ve taken, we tend to remember them best with photographs. Here’s some ideas to enhance your vacation as well as your...
Travel Connections - Stay in Touch
Travel connections with home are easier than ever. New calling cards, cell-phones, e-mail, satelite phones, and better phone lines everywhere are making it a smaller world. Here are some suggestions on how you can stay in touch - when you want to. ...
Travel Insurance Bargains for Brits
If you're traveling in the UK, or a UK citizen traveling elsewhere, you have many options including full year travel insurance. While the occasional traveler such as a vacationer may not find full year travel insurance preferable to the one-trip...
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Travel Tips - Bringing An Alarm Clock
Travel Alarm Clocks - Your Traveling Companion
A traveler may experience an uncomfortable feeling especially if
he's in a place with a different time zone than they have back
home. Every traveler needs his own alarm clock. Whether you are
on vacation, on a business trip or for any other reason that you
are traveling, an alarm clock is a very handy companion to tag
along. This way you could keep track of your own time without
depending on anyone else.
Alarm clocks should, of course, be portable. They should be able
fit in your luggage without worrying that it will be broken.
Another feature of your handy clock is that the numbers should
be easily read and at the same time they should be easy to set.
This way you would save yourself from fussing around trying to
set the time for it to alarm. The purpose of the alarm clock is
to wake you up on time. So choose one that wakes you up with
familiar sounds like beeps or rings. This way you know that the
sound comes from the clock and not somewhere else.
They come in different styles and features. Most of the alarm
clocks for travel are relatively small. But some of them also
come in like large pocket watch that flips open. This way the
clock inside is protected from bumps while inside the suitcase.
There are small clocks that look like cell phones too! Whatever
the size of the travel alarm clock, surely, they always come
with their protective
cases.
Travel alarm clocks can be both expensive and cheap and are sold
in all department stores as well as luggage shops anywhere. It
depends on the taste of the traveler whether to pick a pricey or
inexpensive one. The important thing is, it should function well
and serve its purpose: to wake you up.
A special feature of a travel alarm clock is that you get to
choose the alarm. There may be one that could record your
favorite song that automatically plays on the set time. Other
soothing sounds are available too! However if you're the type
that sleeps soundly, a soft toned alarm clock is not for you.
You better choose one that has a loud alarm sound to wake you up.
Never choose an alarm clock that has to be plugged in for you
never know when there will be a power failure. If this event
happens, your alarm clock can't help you.
These alarm clocks have their own setbacks too just like your
everyday alarm clocks like the battery running out before it
alarms or the "shaking" of the clock might cause the battery
inside to move thus stopping the alarm.
About the author:
Jay is the web owner of http://www.airline-tickets.biz Discount Airline
Tickets, a website that provides information and resources
on vacations, airfare, hotels, and travel. You can visit his
website at: http://www.hotels-in.net Cheap Hotels
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