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One needs to keep to keep themselves warm during cold weather especially winter season. Traveling during winter season is a challenge for travelers coming from tropical countries. Knowing what and how to dress during winter season can be very troublesome if the travelers do not have knowledge about winter clothes.

Generally, one needs three layers of clothes to keep the body warm inside with another layer outside to protect from wind or rain.

Winter Clothes

For example, wear long, thermal underwear, underneath your pants, then a shirt, sweater, jacket and coat. This allows you to remove clothes indoors when its warm. A set of long johns is highly recommended. A 100% wool long john will be ideal for Asian travelers.

Long johns not only helps keep body heat inside the body, but also protect the skin from dryness due to the cold weather. The material used is also important to ensure optimal comfort when it caresses the skin and prevents skin irritation. On the other hand, a three layer cotton long john will do for temperature between 12C to 18C. The second layer should be woolen sweater. A fine cashmere sweater is recommended when temperature is below 10C.

A parka is recommended if the weather is slightly warmer. A padded parka is recommended if the temperature is between -10C to 0C. Leather parka is also available for those who like leather clothing. For formal and feminine look, opt for a woolen coat will keep you warm from 10C and below.

In cold weather, body heat is lost rapidly if head and ears are not well covered. Hat, hoods, scarves, facemasks and earmuffs are good protection against the cold.

For further protection against cold, you will need other accessories like lip balm, body and face moisturizer, money pouch, luggage bag, vacuum bag and chemical warmer.

If you are heading for a winter vacation, be ready with proper clothing and accessories to keep you warm to have an enjoyable vacation.

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Backgammon is a board game dating back to 3000BC during the era of ancient Egyptian kingdom. Backgammon is a board game for two person in which they will try to remove their pieces from the board according to the roll of dice.

Playing backgammon requires lots of strategies and skills to win the game and eliminate the opponent. Backgammon rules are simple for everyone to enjoy the game. Each time when the dice is roll, the player needs to move his checkers on the board and at the same time have to think about countering potential moves by his opponents.

Backgammon is a good game to develop child’s thinking skills and use as a family game for bonding purposes. Besides, the conventional backgammon boardgame, there are also computer software and online version available. The Backgammon Masters software is now available in twelve languages including Chinese. Isn’t this exciting?

Backgammon is an excellent game for travelers to ‘kill’ time when they are traveling on the road like train, ship or bus. It is a small board game and easy to bring along.

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Nowadays, travelers bring along digital cameras with them when they hit the road. Digital cameras are always better than conventional cameras as they allow you to check you photos instantaneously. Photos taken are stored in the memory card. Memory card comes in various capacities ranging from 64K to 4GB or more. Due to the high density of the photos taken, the memory card capacity is often used up quickly. Then, there is a need to transfer the pictures to either a mobile harddisk or a laptop.

However, for the travelers who are serious photographers, they will prefer to transfer their photos to a desktop or notebook computer to allow them to have better view of the photos taken.  My friend prefers Dell computers for their warranty coverage for their computers especially for travelers with laptops. Dell will replace the parts within the next business day as long as it is within warranty period. Dell will deliver the replacement part to your doorstep and replace it for you. This is what he likes most especially if he is traveling oversea where the labor cost can be very expensive.

So, whenever he travels, he brings along his digital SLR cameras, lenses and a notebook computer for image processing and backup.

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Being an avid traveler, taking pictures is simply synonymous to traveling. I never leave home without my camera. As time progresses, I have also changed my cameras a few times. I have stopped using the conventional SLR camera and replaced it with a digital camera.

A digital camera simply allows me to go around clicking away without having to worry about cost of film and printing. When I was having the conventional SLR camera, I spend a lot of money to print the pictures that will end up either in a nice album, photo frame or simply the dustbin. With a digital camera, I can download the digital images onto my computer and keep them. Whenever I am free, I will sort out the nice ones and delete the bad ones. I can use a computer software like Photoshop to enhance them to make them look prettier.

With digital technology, I save a lot of money, as I do not have to print as many pictures as I used to do. A digital picture frame will allow us to display digital images that can even rotate images with music in the background. They have in-build stereo speakers to make the display more attractive.

I can place these digital picture frames anywhere in my house as long as there is a nearby power supply.

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