Airlines have dramatically reduced the amount of baggage passengers can take with them in recent years. Once upon a time, you could check in a couple of large bags and take a carry-on with no extra charges, but those days are long gone. So what can you do when you need to take more than Read More >
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Using Excess Baggage Shipping for Your Holidays
Air travel is increasingly stressful, but excess baggage shipping can make your journey through the airport much easier. Airlines have strict rules about the size and weight of your bags, and they charge quite a lot considering the number of suitcases that don’t make it to their destination at the same time as the passengers Read More >
Do You Need Excess Baggage Shipping?
Sometimes, we need to bring more than the airlines like to carry. Maybe you’re taking an extended trip or even relocating abroad. Or perhaps you have lots of gifts to bring on a visit to a loved one overseas. (No one can have too much of their favourite brand of tea, crisps or chocolate, can Read More >
Your Guide to Excess Baggage Shipping from Ireland
Airlines have strict rules about how much baggage you can take before they start charging for excess, and those charges can be hefty. Thankfully, that isn’t your only option. You can save money and spare yourself hauling that hefty extra luggage if you use international excess baggage shipping. Before you travel, read your airline’s rules Read More >
How Express Shipping to Canada Works
If you have loved ones in Canada, you know the pressure of trying to get things they need from home to them. Maybe it is a student who is homesick and craves their favourite tea and crisps or a sibling who decided he actually does want his skis after all. Perhaps they’ve been disappointed to Read More >
Four Other Countries for French Speakers
French is the most popular foreign language among Irish secondary school pupils. Obviously that is very handy for anyone going to France to work, study or holiday. But where else can that French serve you? What if you dream of going further afield than France? French is spoken widely around the world. And yes, fluency Read More >
3 Things You Get When You Move
Travel broadens the mind, they say. Often we travel because a job or study opportunity has great pull. Of course, this country has a history of people travelling abroad because of the push of a bad economy. And through good times and bad, some of us simply have itchy feet. The pull is simply the Read More >
Students Can Take It with Them This Summer
The weather is solidly spring – wavering from delicious sunshine to blustery rain by the hour. But if you are hoping to spend this summer abroad studying or volunteering, it’s time to start focusing. What you need to do to prepare for a summer abroad depends a lot on where you are going and what Read More >
Heading Home for Christmas?
There’s no place like home for the holidays. It’s a wonderful feeling to be surrounded with your nearest and dearest back home enjoying your family and cultural traditions. The whole world agrees, and that’s why most airports are a complete nightmare to navigate in late December. You can take a few steps to make your Read More >
Your Grandparents’ Move to Britain
Long before Ryanair, your grandparents found cheap seats to Britain on the mail boats. Their experience wasn’t totally unlike ours. They didn’t have assigned seating either, and it could be a bit rough. But the other options were too dear. Instead of landing at their real destination, they too arrived at a port some distance Read More >