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Category Archives: Travel
May 18, 2013
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Retirement Roundup: All Roads Lead Abroad
Baby Boomers have lost, on average, 117 thousand dollars in retirement savings to unexpected “retirement derailers,” according to a recent Ameriprise Financial survey. CNN money reports: Nearly all, or 90%, of those surveyed, had experienced at least one economic or life event … Continue reading
April 18, 2013
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Want Cheaper Health Care? Retire Abroad
If the golden beaches and high quality of life aren’t enough, the cost of health care should be enough to tempt boomers to retire abroad. Kathleen Peddicord’s piece on medical tourism and health care for expat retirees offers one anecdote in particular that … Continue reading
March 31, 2013
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One of the World’s Greatest Museums Back After Decade-Long Break
The Rijksmuseum is reopening in Amsterdam after a ten-year restoration. This is a must-see museum that should be on everyone’s lifetime to-do list, and it sounds as if those of us who have been there already need to go back … Continue reading
March 20, 2013
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US Retirement in Crisis? Let the Boomer Exodus Begin
Americans haven’t been saving enough money, and now the US has entered a retirement crisis the likes of which it has not seen for decades. The WSJ has some shocking statistics from a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute: Fifty-seven … Continue reading
March 13, 2013
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EU Backs Down from Great Green Trade War
Yesterday the EU decided to postpone its controversial carbon charge for airlines after the US, India, Russia and China threatened a trade war. The original idea put forward by Europe’s greens was to include the aviation industry in the EU’s … Continue reading
March 6, 2013
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Expat Living: It’s Not Just for Retirees
Working on the weekdays and scuba-diving in beautiful oceans on the weekend: It sounds like an idyllic way to spend one’s golden years. But as Kathleen Peddicord writes in the HuffPo, many of these overseas “retirement” communities are actually filled with Americans … Continue reading
March 1, 2013
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Cuba After Castro
Last year for the first time Cuba’s government allowed a private party to sell real estate property to another private party, and now the country’s real estate market is thriving. Prices are up, and the number of houses for sale … Continue reading
February 18, 2013
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Time for a UK Vacation?
The pound is falling as investors desert the sceptered isle. Is it time for Americans to move in? The Financial Times reports: Hedge funds and investment managers are dumping sterling as disappointing economic growth in the UK, the threat of a downgrade … Continue reading
February 15, 2013
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Live Like a Prince on a Pauper’s Budget
A new movement is gaining steam in America: overseas retirement. Kiplinger, a personal finance and business forecast site, recently put out a list of eight great places to retire abroad. The attractions of these places are impressive. Bracketing off the … Continue reading
January 25, 2013
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Overseas Living: Not Just for Retirees
Why struggle to pay American rent when you can could afford a maid and a beachside villa for just $1,100 a month? International Living reports on a couple who retired from a stressed out and financially tight life in Florida to a … Continue reading
January 11, 2013
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State Department Warns Against Violent Greek Police
Greece just can’t get out of its own way. Acting under a law enforcement strategy meant to protect the economy from foreign workers, police detained and beat a Korean tourist whom they mistook for an illegal immigrant. This story echoes … Continue reading
August 8, 2012
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Fiscal Hurricane Slams into Caribbean Beaches
The storm thrashing the debt ridden economies of America and Europe seems to have made landfall in the Caribbean. The Financial Times reports: The decline in tourism – and the closure of its struggling sugar industry in 2005 – contributed … Continue reading
July 10, 2012
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Amtrak Wants to Play but Will Anybody Pay?
Not to be outdone by California, Amtrak wants to join the high-speed rail club: On Monday Amtrak announced a $151 billion plan to develop a 220 mile-an-hour train network through the Northeast Corridor, connecting travelers between Boston and Washington, DC, … Continue reading
June 14, 2012
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Australia Plans Protected Marine Areas as Large as India
Way to go, Australia: Australia plans to create the largest network of marine parks in the world, protecting waters covering an area as large as India while banning oil and gas exploration and limiting commercial fishing in some of the … Continue reading
June 9, 2012
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Early Shakespearean Theater Discovered Behind East London Pub
In one of the most significant cultural finds from Elizabethan England, British archeologists have uncovered the remains of the Curtain Theater in a back alley behind a London pub. Though groundlings may not know its significance compared to the world … Continue reading
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