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Planning help - Staying in Touch


When you’re backpacking around the globe you'll feel the need to let your friends know what a great time you’re having not working or studying. The best way to do this is via email. Most people have access to email coz snail mail is very unreliable and quite outdated.

Internet Cafes are available in most countries and you can get onto the net at most hotels and hostels at little or no cost. A good place to find a cybercafe anywhere in the world is at the Internet Cafe Database Search. Storing your passport details and travel check information in your Email box can be useful. You can also hold and forward email using most free email services like Hotmail or Yahoo, check it out.

Wanna hear the voices of the ones left at home? Hiring a celphone is a just another unnecessary responsibility and could prove rather costly. Public phones are the best to use and a phone card is about the cheapest means of calling family and friends, and getting the folks back home to pick up the tab is another way of stretching the phone card. Check about worldwide discounted phone cards.



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