• Are women obsessed with travel clothes?

    Are women obsessed with travel clothes?

    And should women be so wardrobe obsessed? Will I fit in? Will I be respected? Going to fashionable Paris, will I be a dork?   This blog post changed directions after a visit to Chase Bank last week. Apologies up front for being personal.

    Rates are good so I dropped by Chase with my husband. He came along only because I wanted a CD in joint names. I usually work with one banker. He invited a financial adviser to join us.…

     
  • Are you a Ninny Traveler?

    Are you a Ninny Traveler?

    Are you a Ninny Lady if you go on group tours?

    The other day a woman called The Women’s Travel Group about our November trip to Paris. After asking about the trip, she announced she had lived in Paris, knew it well and did not need a group tour.  Why she called? Who knows. But bottom line, there are reasons for her to join the trip.

    Award winning group tours for women who are travel ninnies or not. The Women's Travel Group.
    The Women’s Travel Group in India

    A group tour has benefits for either older women or younger professionals overwhelmed by demanding jobs.…

     
  • Duty Free Deals or Slippery Shopping?

    Duty Free Deals or Slippery Shopping?

    The facts from The Women’s Travel Group:

    1. You are already burdened by carrying stuff you should have checked. 
    2. Duty Free items can be boring: liquor, tobacco, perfumes, accessories, food, electronics. 
    3. Merchants do not pay duty/taxes so items might be cheaper inside an airport. But not necessarily!
    The Womens Travel Group
    Women from The Women’s Travel Group with a new friend

    What is a deal then? If there are branches of local stores, you might find deals unavailable at home. Examples: Boots cosmetics and medicine in UK airports. …

     
  • Travel will help you lose weight.

    Travel will help you lose weight.

    Travel will help you lose weight.  Look at the bathroom scale and scream. Most of us cooked and ate a mountain of food since March 2020. We now begin to plan travel for 2021. There is a nasty realization that our travel clothes are tight or worse: do not fit. 

    Lose weight in Tuscany
    Tuscan gelato

    It is a mystery, but most women lose weight when traveling. Even when in gastronomic Paris or carb-laden Florence, we drop pounds. The first reason is we walk.…

     
  • A Senior Flyer with Pre-existing Conditions?

    A Senior Flyer with Pre-existing Conditions?

    Let’s start with who she is: a senior flyer with pre existing conditions, along plus a yen for travel. She liked adventure so much that she left a solid finance job and started The Women’s Travel Group in 1992. This person is me ad I have two pre existing conditions. In fact, my 2 pre x conditions are fewer than most of you have.

    The two pre existing conditions are my two sons. They are in their 40’s living comfortable safe lives with good families and good jobs.…

     
  • Jerry Seinfeld and Dead Travel?

    Jerry Seinfeld and Dead Travel?

    Jerry Seinfeld posted an Op Ed in the New York Times called “So You Think New York is ‘Dead’?. Travel is not dead either. Read on.   He disparages people who left New York for Florida. He is short on those who say they will live remotely.  He sees New York’s future through its energy, attitude and personality. He is the optimistic travelers should listen to.

    How does this opinion piece translate to travel?

    Women's Travel in Ixtapan Mexico. Travel not dead there either.

    During this pandemic, we sat at home, baked, watched TV, zoomed, shopped on line and cleaned.…

     
  • Delta & Lysol Your Dancing Partners

    Delta & Lysol Your Dancing Partners

    Good news on airplane toilet sanitation: Delta is partnering with Lysol using its disinfectant liquids, sprays and wipes on the plane, boarding areas, baggage areas and in its Sky Clubs. Lysol is the hard to find gold bar for this pandemic. The US Environmental Protection Agency approved two Lysol products as effective against the virus when used on hard, non-porous surfaces.

    Our group in Albania after a Delta flight
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    Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist meet the EPA’s criteria for killing the virus fast. Now with Delta also buying it we know why Lysol is impossible to find in stores or on line.…

     
  • Why Let the Government Spy  on You?

    Why Let the Government Spy on You?

    It is July 4, let’s be patriotic and let the government spy on us. Here is one practical reason to let the government spy on you. You should get Global Entry now.  Global Priority is a popular program that allows travelers coming home from overseas  to re-enter the United States on an expedited basis.  You fill out copious forms on line and email them.  One of the hard ones for me personally is to list every country visited and when visited. Be prepared. …

     
  • Stuff from Women’s Travel Group Trips: video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5rq-5wfCvk&t=2s

    Video creation is new to most of us. In this post, Phyllis Stoller shares some treasures she brought back from The Women’s Travel Group trips. We are used to our phone cameras; but not to our video production. While at home and isolated, why not learn the art of video making. I am going to walk around my living room as a trial and talk about a few of the souvenirs brought home.

    Each one has a memory I wish I had filmed.…

     
  • Horror: The Airplane Bathrooms

    Horror: The Airplane Bathrooms

    No one likes to talk about horror of airplane bathrooms. Today that is one of the most talked about horrors. The airplane bathrooms are small and according to Bloomberg, they are getting smaller.  They feel airless. They are dirty after a long flight.  Soap, toilet paper and even water can be gone.  Some are so small that disabled women or larger women cannot use them. On some American flights, says Bloomberg, the bathroom is only 22.1 inches across at the passenger’s chest level when seated. .…

     
 
 
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