Getting There & Around

24 Things We Wish We’d Known Before Becoming Location Independent

Posted by Lea Woodward

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Where & When To Go

1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a [...]

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Where & When To Go

1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a dedicated, quicker route through immigration.

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Categories : Business Tips, Getting There & Around, Money Matters, On Location Tips

Booking Flights: What’s Your Strategy?

Posted by Lea Woodward

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A common question we get asked is how we book flights…do we book RTW tickets or single trips? It’s a good question and an important one if money is an issue and you’re trying to keep your costs down.
Having spent upwards of 100 hours (at a rough guess) in the past couple [...]

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A common question we get asked is how we book flights…do we book RTW tickets or single trips? It’s a good question and an important one if money is an issue and you’re trying to keep your costs down.

Having spent upwards of 100 hours (at a rough guess) in the past couple of years researching, planning and booking flights and routes, here’s some of what we’ve learned…

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Categories : Getting There & Around

LIP Links 30.01.08

Posted by Lea Woodward

Airline meals
The only site dedicated to nothing but airline meals! It’s a sort of web 2.0 community site where you can browse current airline menus, find out how they’re prepared and view fellow traveller’s photos of their recent meals.
Take websites with you
A handy tool from Google which adapts any website on the net and [...]

Airline meals

The only site dedicated to nothing but airline meals! It’s a sort of web 2.0 community site where you can browse current airline menus, find out how they’re prepared and view fellow traveller’s photos of their recent meals.

Take websites with you

A handy tool from Google which adapts any website on the net and makes it suitable for viewing on your mobile cellphone. Bookmark the site on your PDA, cellphone, iPhone or whatever and you’ll also get the option to view sites without bandwidth-intensive images.

MoDazzle

Use online services such as Facebook, Salesforce, LinkedIn and others on your cellphone, if you can’t bear to be parted from them for a few hours.

Categories : Getting There & Around, Tools & Resources

12 Useful Firefox Extensions for the Location Independent Professional

Posted by Lea Woodward

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As a location independent professional who runs your business on the ‘net and lives ‘virtually’ in the www, you must be using Firefox, right?
If you’re not, then you have no idea how much precious browsing time you’re wasting and I recommend you download the *best* browser bar none tout de suite (immediately)!!
For those [...]

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As a location independent professional who runs your business on the ‘net and lives ‘virtually’ in the www, you must be using Firefox, right?

If you’re not, then you have no idea how much precious browsing time you’re wasting and I recommend you download the *best* browser bar none tout de suite (immediately)!!

For those of you who are, here are 12 of the most useful extensions/add-ons you can install to super-charge your location independent life….

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Categories : Getting There & Around, Tools & Resources