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Plan Ahead

As travel begins to open up, keep in mind everything may not be as you are used to it. It is more important than ever to plan ahead. Look over your reservations and spend some time making sure things are in order.

For instance, make paper copies of all your reservations. Why? It’s just one more back up for you. Plus, airlines may require different forms when checking in for a flight. This includes flight info, hotel reservations, and your vaccination record.

If you are like many travelers, it’s fun to stop somewhere you hadn’t planned. You see a cute roadside café or an interesting winery. Chances are now, you will need a reservation. Keep that in mind.

Schedules have always changed…especially when purchasing air reservations in advance. That may become intensified as airlines work through pandemic rules. Airports will probably have new rules as well. You could check to see what is different in airports you will be using. Be prepared to wear a mask at all times during the flight, unless you are eating or drinking.

Rental cars…very short supply as companies sold off some of their inventory during the pandemic. Check and double check your reservation. Again, make paper copies of all your reservation info. Be prepared to pay much more than you used to, as well.

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Vaccination Card Tips

Some tips I read from Johnny Jet about your vaccination card…

Instead of laminating it, put it in a resealable plastic badge holder from an old travel conference. You can always buy one if you’ve thrown your old ones away.

Another tip from a reader of his website says he is going to shrink his card to wallet size. Then he can carry it more easily. He also had several copies made, full size and shrunk. He can put those in with his travel documents.

By the way, he keeps his original in a safe place.

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Vaccination Card

Should you laminate your vaccination card?

According to several sites, it may not be a good idea to laminate your COVID-19 vaccination card. Why? The ink on the vaccination card can become illegible.

Some cards the label is placed on the card mentions the vaccine brand and lot number. Those have been printed on thermal printer labels. If you put that through a thermal laminator, they will be completely black and illegible.

Instead, CDC officials recommend making photocopies of the card and taking a photo of your original.

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Trieste, Italy

Trieste is the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. A port city, it occupies a thin strip of land between the Adriatic coast and Slovenia’s border on the limestone-dominated Karst Plateau. Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Slovenian influences are all evident in its layout, which encompasses a medieval old city and a neoclassical Austrian quarter. 

Inner Canal
Castle of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg