Country Vacations & Resorts

Summer vacations are already being planned so what better time to start thinking about things you’ll need to buy or replace before heading out for this year’s vacation.

Starting off here with a guide or three that might help those who haven’t planned this year’s destination:

100 Countries, 5,000 Ideas

Drives of a Lifetime

100 Best Affordable Vacations

And a few items that may make your chosen journey a little less stressful…

National Geographic Lightweight Leather Travel Tote

Compact Universal Travel Adapter and USB Charger

16-language Translator

Active 10 TREK GPS

Find hundreds of additional travel ideas, guides and travel-enhancing products…

This is the talking translator that articulates over 69,000 phrases and 600,000 words across 27 European languages and three Asian languages.

At the touch of a button, you can access translations for pre-programmed words or common travel phrases to and from English (uses the New Oxford American English Dictionary). European languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are also included. About the size of a PDA, the translator has a backlit LCD that shows the word or phrase, pronunciation, and script for non-Latin alphabets, then speaks the word or phrase in your language of choice. Converts eight currencies and calculates between metric and Imperial measurements; provides local and world time.

The Talking 30 Language Translator.