Travelling-then and now

How to prepare for your journey

Your papers please...and your money

Passport

Visa

Some tips

Student identity cards

Cancellation of your journey

Car insurance

Illness

Luggage

Insurance

Medical requirements

Are traveller's cheques a good idea?

What about credit cards?

Should I take some cash?

Your clothes

Which clothes for which month?

How to decide what to take

Checklists

What does she take?

Your luggage

What should you choose?

Suitcase

Shoulder case

Carry on bag

Framed backpack or rucksack

Wheels

Holdall

How to protect your luggage against thieves

How to label your luggage

How to enjoy travelling by air and by thumb

Fares:cheap,cheaper,cheapest

How to read your ticket

How to translate aeroplane noises

How to be comfortable

How to exercise on a plane

How to avoid jet lag

Your body clock

What is jet lag?

Jet set success may give you jet lag!

Jet lag mistakes

How a US president avoided jet lag

The three step jet lag programme

Before the flight

During the flight

After the flight

An interview with an experienced hitchhiker

Hitchhiking

Do

Don't

The best way

Boats,rail,coaches and cars

How to look after yourself and other people

Going out with people

Do you give tips?

Snatchers

Pickpockets

How to survive problems

Thieves

Mugging

How to look after your valuables

Lost property

Your passport

Traveller's cheques

What to do?

Arrest?

Police!

Road accident

Car documents

Luggage

Money

Credit card

Illness

Death

How to look after a person who has been in an accident

She's not breathing

Shock

Her heart's not beating

Broken bones

Cuts and bleeding

Being lost...how to find your way

Walking in circles

Get to know a city's pattern

Can you use a compass?

A compass from a watch

Learn to recognise tall buildings

Your direction by the stars

How to use the sun and the stars

How to read a map

Understanding symbols

Hills

Scale

Grid reference

Lake District

Before you start

Extreme cold

How to survive less common problems

Take the right equipment

If anything goes wrong

A checklist for walkers

Cold kills

How your body loses its heat

What must a well-dressed walker wear?

What materials are good in cold places?

Frostbite

You may have to make a shelter

How to stay alive in the desert

General planning

How long can you live?

Danger

In swamps and quicksand

On ice

In the tent

Avalanches

Lightning

To pilots

In a boat

How to signal for help

In the mountains

In a car

Games for boring moments

Did you see that car?

Find your letters to spell your word

Lip reading

Tell a story

Guessing time and distance

Traffic police:who has the sharpest eyes?

How many in one minute?

I'm hiding

How to plan a holiday in Britain

What do you really want?

Holidays in a city

Holidays by the sea

The green and pleasant land

A country full of history

A lazy canal holiday

Holiday centres

Activity holidays

How to have a free holiday!

Where are you going to stay?

Holiday cottages

Farmhouse holidays

Bed and breakfast

Youth hostels

Camping and caravanning

Useful addresses

Hotels

Families

How to understand holiday brochures

Florida

Can you read costs?

Golden West Tour

Last thoughts

Answers

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