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Philippines: Return ticket / exit required. No exit ticket? Well, you’re not leaving
This morning I broke a world record: buying a plane ticket in 1 min 30.While we had just made the checkin at the airport of Hong Kong and that we were heading towards immigration, the hostess of the company sprints and catches us in flight.- “I forgot to ask for your exit ticket from the Philippines”.– “Uh… what?”- “Philippine immigration requires us to check that every visitor has an exit ticket, if you don’t have one, I will cancel your registration”. The threat fell like a knife because I was going to do as I pleased and ignore it royally.We tried to cheat by showing our ticket “around the world”…
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Insurance during a world tour: Test & Advice from Chapka Assurance
Whether one is on sabbatical (like me) or without activity after resigning (like Anh), health insurance entitlements continue for one year. So no worries about traveling in France or Europe: you’re covered! If you travel outside of Europe, it gets complicated. Only urgent care can possibly be reimbursed. You will have to advance the funds and the social security will assess on the basis of the supporting documents whether your expenses are legitimate and can be reimbursed. In case of refusal, no contestation is possible. In case of acceptance, reimbursement will be made on a lump sum basis and not on actual expenses. In short, it’s far too random when…
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Cancel your services in 3 clicks: Test and review of resilier.fr
Preparing a world tour means planning the itinerary, reading travel guides, buying equipment, dreaming about the images of our future destinations, … But it’s also a lot of things a bit more annoying: refurbishing the apartment before giving it back, selling and giving away 10 years of accumulated objects, … One of those annoying tricks: the cancellation of all the services that we are happy to take out of our bank account every month. In our case, I have for the moment listed : SFR box subscription Autolib Subscription Keep Cool Sports Club Membership Pathé Cinema Subscription For each of these services, you’ll have to find the cancellation conditions, write…
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Test and review of the Traveller’s Mail Service
How can you continue to receive your postal mail while you are traveling between South Africa, New Zealand and Argentina? I have tested the ” Courrier du Voyageur ” service for you. Even if nowadays, postal mail is becoming increasingly rare, there are still a few diehards. And often, these diehards are important and/or boring: bank, insurance, administration, … (for example, I am fighting for the restitution of my housing deposit by registered letters). Since the beginning of our world tour, we change our address every 48 hours, so it is essential to keep a fixed correspondence address. I had considered asking my family to receive my mail and scan…
