Young Travelers

By Ray Baker

 Golf is a sport where the quality of your equipment plays a huge part in how successful you are, and because of this, we spend lots of money buying the best equipment we can afford. Under normal circumstances, our golf clubs travel no further than our local golf course, so they don’t need much by way of protection from damage.

It’s a different story however when we take our golf clubs on vacation, especially if we are taking a flight and have to check our clubs with our suitcases and entrust them to the airline. In this situation, buying yourself the best golf travel case you can afford is a wise investment. But what should you look out for in a good golf travel bag?

The first decision you have to make is whether to choose a hard or a soft case. A hard case is without doubt the best option to go for, but they are much more expensive than a soft bag - the cheapest price you will find for a hard case will almost certainly be more than the soft travel bag.

You should pay close attention to the type of lock fitted to the bag you are considering. As we’ve already said, golf equipment is very expensive and determined thieves will prize open an insubstantial lock in no time. Always opt for bag that is equipped to take a padlock, and spend a few extra dollars on a decent lock to keep things safe.

Golf clubs come in various shapes and sizes so it’s important to check that your clubs will fit in to the bag. It sounds like an obvious point, but you would not believe the number of times golf travel bags have to be exchanged for this reason alone.

How are you going to carry your travel bag? It is difficult to predict every situation you will encounter, so versatility is the key here. First make sure your case has wheels, as these travel cases can become quite heavy if you have to carry them for more than a short distance - such as from the car park for instance. After wheels, the case should multiple handles and the handles should be very robust as they have a bad habit of breaking at the most inconvenient times. If the bag has shoulder straps, make sure they are well padded as this will make it more comfortable to carry.

The material you choose for your bag should be lightweight but hard-wearing enough to withstand the most sadistic baggage handler. The sides and top are the most vulnerable areas, so make sure they are particularly well protected, and don’t buy anything that will be difficult to clean - your bag will get dirty!

After all that, the final decision comes down to appearance, and that’s all about personal taste. My recommendation would be to choose practicality over design, but if you can find a balance between the two, you have probably just found the perfect golf travel bag for you.

The Author’s website Golf Vacations Spain Guide features articles, tips and advice about planning and enjoying the perfect Spanish golf vacation. You will also find quality information about Spain golf courses, and help choosing the best golf resorts Spain.

Five Ways To Pass The Time
By Maxine Clarke

 Ever been placed in the situation where there is an incredible amount of time to kill and very little to keep you entertained? Perhaps on a flight or long car journey, waiting in hospital or even during a lunch break at work?

If so, you will be more than aware that trying to pass the time can be somewhat cumbersome and difficult. These periods may well be too long to simply sit them out, or too short to begin a task that may prove to be substantial. As such, in an effort to beat the boredom, this article provides just five suggestions for ways in which you can keep occupied, in this instance during a prolonged car journey.

Music

Undoubtedly one of the most popular inventions of the last decade, the iPod has gone on to spawn a host of imitators that enable music fans to transport virtually their entire music collection wherever they go. Little bigger than a mobile phone, time will surely fly as you scroll through thousands upon thousands of songs. In addition, with these portable entertainment systems also able to show video and connect to the internet, there should be no reason for boredom!

Games console

Remember the original Gameboy? Or perhaps the Sega Gamegear? In their prime, these games systems were among the cutting edge of technology, allowing parents to keep their young’uns occupied during journeys. Now, with the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP taking the standard of mobile gaming to another level, adults are themselves finding that these systems can break up the boredom of their own drawn-out journeys. What’s more, the PSP also allows films to be watched in high quality formats - something the Gameboy could never do!

Read

Not enough people are reading these days, or that’s how it seems. What better way is there for escapism than to bury your head into literature, either classic or modern, and while away a couple of hours of your time. Books are not easy to write, so give authors a break and pick up a copy of the latest read! Unless, of course, you are like me who finds it nigh-on impossible to read in a moving vehicle!

Su Doku

Who would’ve thought that the crossword would be usurped as the perfect mental challenge on journeys? And by an activity that involves - albeit somewhat tenuously - maths! The phenomenon that is Su Doku has become world-renowned as the ideal activity to stimulate your mind, and what better time to take part than during a boring car journey. Remember, however, to try and sit away from other travellers else they will try and ‘help’.

Conversation

Should none of the technology or materials detailed above be available, there is always the old favourite pastime of conversation. The old adage says that ‘conversation is a dying art’, so why not revive it and interact with those around you. Quite frankly, it’s the easiest way to pass the time, and one that needs the least effort. Well, that and sleeping, I suppose.

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Max Clarke is a copywriter for holiday services company, Holiday Extras, currently writing about Gatwick airport parking, Manchester airport hotels and Heathrow airport parking.

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EBay Income Possibilities.
By Rahim Abu Fattah

 If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.

Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that’s eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!

The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they’ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don’t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.

Even if you don’t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.

What’s more, eBay doesn’t care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There’s no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it.

Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that’s not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you’re making money already, with no set-up costs.

If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you’ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you’ll probably find you’ve got a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you’re selling, whatever it might be, and since they’ve come looking for you, you don’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.

So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that’s great! There are only a few little things you need to learn to get started.

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