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Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT): OAT is offering free or low-cost single supplements on all of its small ship trips, adventures, and pre- and post-trip extensions. According to the company, more than a third of its customers book solo. OAT also offers a matching roommate program. Uniworld: The boutique river cruise line is offering waived single supplements on select cruises, including the 11-day Remarkable Rhine & Historic Holland: Basel to Amsterdam, or the Enchanting Christmas & New Year’s sailing from Passau to Budapest. Grand Circle Travel: Grand Circle advertises low-cost single supplements on all trips, and waive the supplement on pre- and post-trip extensions. Related:8 Inspiring Women’s Travel Escapes to Take  … [Read more...] about Solo Travelers: Avoid the Single Supplement

Since the arrival of Tian Tian and Yang Guang, panda fever has hit at this already popular visitor attraction – and that’s before you even consider the famous penguin parade, cute koalas and comical chimps. Plenty of picture material here. … [Read more...] about Travel: The ten most Instagram-worthy Scottish sights

GO WITH THE FLOWFlorida and Charleston’s unfailingly charming. In California, LA’s still sunbathing and San Francisco is chilled out yet clement, plus Dungeness crabs are back on Napa Valley’s menus – best enjoyed with the latest wines. Always-warm Dubai is at its temperate best: go off-road in the desert, before cooling down by the coast. It’s road-trippin’ season in Australia, too: swap the humid north for vineyard hopping, beaching and city breaks around Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. In Thailand, the time’s right for island hopping to Phuket and Koh Samui or getting immersed in Bangkok’s bustle. Or hit Asia’s whisper-quiet outlier, with a brag-worthy break to Bhutan. … [Read more...] about Travel calendar: where to go in November

9 Things to Pack for Unpredictable Fall Weather: Because it can still be unseasonably warm (or cold) for Thanksgiving and Christmas. … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Holiday Travel Survival Guide

8. I speak English like a robot. Due to an English tutor job, a couple of foreign ex-boyfriends and working for a French family, the way I speak English has definitely changed. I now speak slowly and clearly and avoid idioms, slang and phrasal verbs of any kind. It actually really annoys me when I come home and it takes me a few days to stop sounding like an alien. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways that Travel Permanently Changed Me