Travel is a major part of everyone’s daily life.

More and more people are taking holidays and business trips aboard. Travel insurance is an initial part of our holiday, or business trip.

Clean, sandy beaches and warm, sunny days make vacationing in the Caribbean popular with tourists. Largely a safe and pleasurable holiday destination, the Caribbean islands offer limitless opportunities for fun in the sun.

All travelers, however, need to be aware of the possible dangers associated with foreign travel, and you should familiarize yourself with the basics before you begin to pack your bags and should have long stay holiday insurance in Barbados.

The Caribbean refers to a group of islands situated between North and South America, ranging from Cuba to Barbados.

Some of their more popular vacation destinations include Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica and The Virgin Islands. When choosing travel dates to this area, be aware that hurricane season runs from June through November.

Four Tips For A Long Stay Holiday insurance In Barbados

Tip One: Medical care is extremely limited in many Caribbean countries.

Tip Two: It is best to have cash on hand, as it is mandatory for gratuity of 15% in restaurants,

Tip Three: If you are found in a non-authorized place, you could be subjected to a fine, or imprisonment.

Tip Four: If your children get into trouble, they are tried as an adult at 16 an older.

General Tips For A Long Stay Holiday Insurance In Barbados

Do not go solo, travel with someone, if possible. If you do have to travel alone, set up scheduled times to check in with someone at home. If you do not check in, they will immediately know that something is wrong.

Be aware of your surroundings, as it can keep your safe. Trust your instincts.

Do not stand out. Avoid behavior or dress that will make you stand out from the crowds especially when traveling overseas.

Avoid hotels with rooms that open to the outside and rooms on the first floor. Be sure to use the extra lock on your door and to secure all valuables. Know where the emergency exits and stairwells are.

Know what you have so you can plan what monies your want to put into your long stay holiday insurance in Barbados. Make photocopies of your driver license, credit cards (front and back) and passport.

In case they are lost or stolen, you will know exactly what you had and for your credit cards, you can easily call the customer service numbers to cancel them. Keep the photocopies in a safe place or scan them and e-mail them to yourself

If you use a web-based e-mail service, you will be able to get to the documents anywhere you have Internet access.

Female business travelers are at a greater risk when traveling, especially overseas. Wear a wedding ring, even if you are single.

A cheap, fake ring can go a long way in deterring criminals. Also, do not wear your hair down or in a ponytail. It is an easy way for someone to grab you.

During your long stay holiday insurance in Barbados is a must. Have a plan and a good support system can help you in case something goes wrong.

This way, someone will know how to find you, in case of an emergency.

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Tip! If your vacation plans include staying home rather than traveling, plan how you will spend your vacation to rejuvenate yourself. Perhaps there are some local attractions that you’ve been wanting to experience but have not had the time to experience.

Nothing could be finer…

Just a few short miles south of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, well known for it’s 100 plus golf courses, you’ll find Georgetown County, a monument to the fine tradition of the southern way of life.

Tradition reigns supreme even to this day as many families have been there for 175 years or more.

You’ll find the same names in the All Saints Cemetery on King’s Highway that belong to the movers and shakers of today. The people behind those outstanding golf courses that are #1 on your “hit” parade.

Believe me you’ll find golf in this area…and perhaps the best golf to be found in the Myrtle Beach area.

One of the oldest golf courses in the area is Litchfield Golf and Country club.

Now we know that many of you have heard of or even played golf at Litchfield, or perhaps played it’s sister course, River Club, but did you know that both of these outstanding courses exist on what was once a rice plantation extending from the Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean.

Litchfield Plantation came into being approximately 1794 and a plan from that time shows an Avenue of Oaks and a house with two chimneys at either end.

Today you can still see that house, totally renovated and offered as a wonderful Bed and Breakfast Inn, with an adjacent restaurant aptly named The Carriage House Both are totally steeped in the charm of a another day, elegant and authentic in detail, intimate and very special.

Tip! The top business concern among business owners with vacation plans is that an important client or customer won’t receive proper service followed by worries over who will run the company while they’re away and missed opportunities for new business. Other concerns include: technological problems, security and sick staff.

In the same area of Litchfield Beach is a fine old plantation, Willbrook, that now boasts 3 beautiful golf courses that include Willbrook and The Traditon, (part of the Myrtle Beach National stable of courses) and The Reserve, a relatively new private course.

Play golf on such outstanding courses as Caledonia (voted the “Most Beautiful Golf Course”).

We believe you’ll agree when you drive down that long avenue of old oaks with Spanish Moss to the clubhouse and the now fallow rice fields, that it is indeed a baurtiful site.

Caledonia is on the site of “Waverly Plantation” circa 1750 and in continuous ownership by the Allston and Lachicotte families.

Robert Allston was Governor of South Carolina from 1857 to 1859 and his papers for expenditures for his rice plantation from 1834 to 1857 survive to this day, but as was the case with many wealthy planters of the day, the Allstons lost much of their fortune as a result of the economic turmoil of the Civil War. Philip Lachicotte bought Waverly Plantation in 1871.

Waverly Mills rice was famous and in fact won a Gold Medal in the 1902 Charleston Exposition, but by 1911 the rice culture was totally dead in South Carolina.

True Blue Golf Club is also in this section of Pawleys Island and a monument to the old plantations of yesterday. If you look closely, when you play golf at these golf courses you may spot Doc Lachicotte having lunch in the clubhouse.

Tip! Keep your vacation planning information in one place. Create a labeled file folder (’Hawaii Vacation’) and use it to keep your airline, hotel, car rental information, as well as maps or AAA guide books, tourist information, contact information for people you know in that city, etc.

Gracious southern plantations abound in this area, names like Brookgreen, Hobcaw Barony, (home to Bernard Baruch in the early 19th century), and Wachesaw date well back to antebellum times.

Brookgreen is now the site of Huntington National State Park and Brookgreen Gardens, floral and sculpture garden without peer.

Wachesaw Plantation, backing up to Brookgreen Plantation has it’s own abandoned rice fields, but today is an outstanding Tom Fazio private golf course and residential area.

It is the most thoroughly researched plantation in the area. Archeologists dug and sifted for 3 years marking slave cemeteries and Indian burial grounds. The original plantation house setting on a bluff overlooking the Waccamaw river burned about 1890.

In the section known as Richmond Hill there are remnants of a Revolutionary Fort with outline of old trenches still visible. You can play this wonderful golf course when you buy into some of our outstanding Myrtle Beach golf packages.

We wanted to give you food for thought the next time you go to play golf in Georgetown County just south of Myrtle Beach.

It’s an ideal place for a golf vacation, with your foursome or your family. You can absorb the history and ambiance of a long ago past, even as you play the outstanding golf courses.

For more information about the area and the golf…visit www.myrtlebeachgolfsecret.com - you will truly discover the secret behind golf in the Myrtle Beach area.

Tip! I don’t know why Lyon is not included in more vacation plans. It’s a great city for tourists and a perfect stop on your vacation trip on the way from Paris to the sophisticated beach life of the South of France.

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Joan Ewart, an artist, a writer and world travler, devotes many hours to authoring and maintaining major travel web sites.

She publishes many articles on travel spots around the world. You’ll find this and much more Myrtle Beach Golf Information at http://www.myrtlebeachgolfsecret.com

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