Travel & Aviation
Top 10 travel Safety and Security Tips for a Worry-Free Travel Experience
TL;DR: Discover essential travel safety tips, from researching your destination's culture and customs to securing transportation and protecting your valuables, for a worry-free and enjoyable journey. Prepare for your journey by researching your destination's culture, customs, and current events. As a result, you will be able to understand better potential safety concerns and the appropriate behaviour and attire to avoid attracting unwanted attention. Make digital copies of your passport, visa, and other important travel documents. Put them in a secure, password-protected cloud storage account or encrypted device.
Access Clean Water on the Go and Reduce Waste with the Eco-Friendly Grayl Water Filter
TL;DR: With the eco-friendly and highly effective Grayl water filter, travellers can access clean and safe drinking water on the go and reduce their carbon footprint. I have logged over 1.5 million air miles over the last three decades, so I am familiar with the challenges associated with finding safe drinking water around the globe. Water contamination can result in serious health problems, making access to clean water an essential requirement for travellers. There have been several dozen water filters and purifiers that I have tested, ranging from UVC sterilizing lights to much larger gravity-fed camping filters.
Chemical Water Treatments for Travellers: Types, Pros, and Cons
TL;DR: Stay healthy and hydrated during your travels with chemical water treatments - discover how they work, their pros and cons, and their different types. It is important to have access to safe and clean drinking water when travelling to remote or unfamiliar locations. However, consuming contaminated water can result in various illnesses, including diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration. Chemical water treatment is an effective method of ensuring the safety of your drinking water. In this blog post, we will examine chemical water treatments for travellers, how they work, and their pros and cons.
Stay Hydrated and Safe While Traveling: 5 Ways to Purify Unknown Quality Water
TL;DR: Learn how to stay hydrated and avoid getting sick while traveling with these 5 effective methods of purifying unknown quality water, including boiling, chemical treatments, filtration, UV purification, and distillation. To ensure your safety and well-being when travelling to unfamiliar locations, one of the most important considerations is the availability of safe drinking water. Consuming contaminated water can result in various health problems, such as diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration. Fortunately, there are ways to make unknown-quality water safe to drink so you don't have to worry about getting sick during your travels.
Navigate to your destination without using GPS
I remember a time before Google maps when navigation meant buying paper maps from the petrol station and required a navigator. Then came the smartphone with its GPS magic powered by Google Maps, and our lives became instantly better. There are times when GPS is unreliable (like dense city centers), or you want to maximize your smartphone battery life, or there are times you simply don't want to give Google your precise location for privacy reasons. This is where an Android app called SmartNavi shines.
Operational security tips to safeguard your privacy when crossing a border
Every week I read about another traveller that is hassled at the border to turn over his laptop, tablet or smartphone and their associated passwords. Knowing that a stranger has gone through your personal “stuff” feels dirty (similar to being robbed). A question I get asked often by readers, friends and colleagues is “How do I travel through international borders without worrying that my life will be put on show for some stranger with a badge?”. You don’t believe that this can happen; here are some interesting articles:
Common hotel safety and security questions
When an operational security expert thinks about hotel risks, we typically group them in these buckets: physical security safety technological risk Travel security means you need to think about potential risks you may be exposed to and how you could mitigate them. What about room security? First, think you should do when you walk into any hotel room is walk around and identify all potential ingress points. Make sure that they are locked (windows, sliding doors, doors to adjoining rooms, etc).
How to fix issues at hotels, airports and other public WIFI hotspots
A captive portal is the intercept page you see when trying to log into most free public WIFI hotspots (e.g. airport, restaurant, hotel, etc.) You are normally shown a page that collects your email and then asks you to agree to the provider's terms of conditions. As browsers adopt more secure protocols by defaults (iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, iPad, etc.) there are situations when your device may not trigger the portal webpage correctly. The browser may block redirection to the portal page because it is typically transmitted using unsecured HTTP.
9 things you should pack on every trip
As a frequent traveller, I have picked up some tricks that make travelling a lot easier. I wanted to share some of those with you and hopefully make your life a little easier. Global WIFI Hotspot I wrote my first review of the (gen 1) Skyroam Global hotspot in 2015 and it became one of my most used travel items. When they released (gen 2) a new LTE capable model, the Skyroam Solis, I bought one and reviewed it as well.
Calgary airport offers the best WIFI performance in Canada
Ookla, everyone's favourite speed test service has just published internet performance metrics for North American airports. Calgary Airport has been rated as the best performer of all Canadian airports and is the third best in North America. Seattle Tacoma International Denver International Airport Calgary International Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport was rated the worst. Toronto's expensive Toronto Pearson International Airport is rated 23rd.