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Travel is a blast… It broadens the mind, teases your taste buds and sharpens your life skills. Except when it doesn’t. For every on-the-road memory to slip in the mind vault marked “precious”, there’s one to chuck in the “let-down” bin. Or maybe two. Or maybe that’s just the view of a jaded travel writer. 1) “Detoxing” Retreats The human body has a natural “detoxing” facility. It’s called the liver. Any spa treatment or retreat that promises to detox you is speaking gobbledegook while tweaking your guilty conscience with one hand and slipping the other into your back pocket. Retoxing …

From what’s behind your frequent flier file to speaking the world’s only true international language. Airport Buses It doesn’t seem to matter where you go in the world, when you have to take a bus from your terminal to your aircraft it feels like you’re in the film Groundhog Day, where you’re riding in the same vehicle over and over. Well, that’s because you are! But have you ever wondered where those buses come from? The COBUS 3000 is built in Germany, and since it first appeared at Zurich Airport in 1978 it has practically cornered the market in terminal …