The top ten links from this week in budget travel:
- Perpetual Travel presents a no-nonsense guide to RTW travel
- NuNomad blog continues its series on cell phone use for long term and RTW travel
- Kevin Allgood suggests using linked accounts to protect your travel loot from pesky thieves and con artists while on the road
- A brilliant Palestinian traveler proves that taping crocodiles to your chest is not the proper way to smuggle them into the Gaza Strip
- A 2005 post from EscapeBlog points us to How to use Japanese style toilet – an insightful Flash movie for anyone new to the exciting world of squat toilets!
- ANA has updated their reservation process to include a nifty little Flash application to, as Jaunted claims, help “you visualize your suffering in 3D” (a la SeatGuru)
- Darren Rowse tackles the essentials of travel photography
- … and Our Man in Granada could learn ya a thing or two about travel photography. Check out his favorite travel pics.
- Rail travel could get a whole lot faster with France’s TGV setting a new rail train world speed record of 357.2 miles per hour!
- To insure or not to insure? About.com provides a general overview to help answer that question.