Turning into a traveling nomad? Could it be time to go home? Check out these 24 signs you’ve been traveling too long and make a decision on that home-ward flight!

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I know that some of you guys have been on the road for years but could your trip be reaching its natural conclusion?

Check out these 24 signs that you’ve been traveling too long, it might just be time to hang up your rucksack!

1. You start every sentence with “so, where are you from?”

2. You have loads of new friends but have no clue what their surnames are

3. Carpet feels like cotton wool

4. You look dirty but it’s just your tan

5. Throwing toilet paper in the toilet feels wrong

6. You’re adorned with bits of coconut, stones and shells head to toe

7. You’ve been wearing the same pair of Thai pants for weeks

8. You very rarely know (or care) what the time is

9. Staying put for more than a few days makes you antsy

10. Paying more than $5 for a meal feels extravagant

11. Sleeping in a room with strangers seems normal

12. Your rucksack weighs about 50% less than before you left

13. You weigh about 50% less than before you left

14. Sunsets bore you

15. A 6 hour train journey feels short

16. You sleep well on airport chairs

17. You laugh in the face of the Lonely Planet

18. The thought of wearing a suit makes you snigger

19. Your family/friends have stopped asking when you’re coming back

20. Crazy people seem normal

21. Your home food cravings are becoming delusional

22. You’d happily trade in your iPod for a bubble bath

23. When stepping into a hotel lobby, it usually takes about 3 seconds until you’re escorted out

24. You used to have a day-job but it all seems very hazy

Identify with these tell-tale signs or think there’s never a time to go home?! Post up your comments, we want to hear from you!

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Bored of swimming lengths? Pick up an underwater camera for your next vacation and let the games begin!

Why is it that as soon as you become an “adult” pool-time gets confined to swimming lengths. Boring!

I recently challenged my friends to come up with as many juvenile things to do with an underwater camera that they could think of.

Here are the results!

1.    Hi Mom Pics

2.    Mermaid Pics

3.    Bezzie Mate Pics (trying not to cut your friend’s head off)

4.    Upside-Down Pics

5.    General Underwater Silliness

6.    Dead Straight Dives

7.    Back-Flips

8.    Air Somersaults

9.    Shoulder Launches

10.    Backward Shoulder Launches

11.    Bum Flops

12.    Balancing Shots

13.    Synchronized Side-Lunges

14.    Nice Splashy Pics

Like my pics or think they’re just plain silly? Got more cool underwater pics? Post up your comments below, we want to hear from you!

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You may think you’re a seasoned, worldly traveler but are you really? Check out these 25 signs that you’re a true citizen of the world!

I’d love to define myself as a citizen of the world but, frankly, I’m a long way off.

Some people, on the other hand, roam around the planet identifying not with any one nation but with the world itself.

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Are you one of these people? Test yourself on these 25 signs that you’re a true citizen of the world!

1. You know about global disasters within minutes

2. Your National Geographic collection is taking on a life of its own

3. You never enter a country without at least 5 phrases in the native tongue

4. You have a good friend on every continent

5. You’ve eaten the same animal you once had as a pet

6. You rarely stay in any one country for more than 3 months straight

7. You don’t use guide books but just figure it out when you get there

8. You make friends in the street

9. You make friends in the sea

10. You make friends on top of mountains

11. You’ve worked for at least one international NGO

12. You’ve taught English to kids somewhere in the world at some point

13. When you see tourists from your native country abroad, you hide

14. You’ve been bitten/stung by at least one scary insect/animal

15. You’ve feared for your life on several occasions

16. You’ve never been to the Hamptons

17. Your lucky sandals have holes in the soles

18. You’ve been invited for dinner in families’ homes all over the world

19. You sleep best under the stars

20. You know that couch surfing has nothing to do with waves

21. Your iPod has songs on it from every UN member state

22. Your favorite author is not from your native country

23. You take photos… and print them

24. When people talk about celebrities you feel dazed and confused

25. You sometimes forget where you came from

How did you score?? Are you a true citizen of the world? Post up your comments below and let us know!!

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Ever sniggered at a translation blunder on a sign or instruction manual? Check out these hilarious menu blunders that will make you think twice about what you’re eating…and the benefits of spell-check!

When traveling abroad, I always marvel at the many creative interpretations of the English language.

Though the effort to translate local specialties for tourists is no doubt a smart marketing move, the results might sometimes have the opposite effect…

1. Chocoholics Beware!

Room Service Menu at the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou, China.

2. A Modest Selection

Restaurant in Saigon, Vietnam.

3. Made with Love and Effort…

Chinese flea market in Atlanta, Georgia.

4. Teach Your Poultry a Lesson!

Chinese menu.

5. Cannibalism on the Side?

Chinese menu

6. Vanilla Lovers: a Sacred Desert

Chinese menu

7. What’s My Dad Been up to?!

Menu found in Zhejiang, China

8. A Meal for the Militantly Healthy

Menu found in Shenzhen, China.

9. The Post-Breakup Dish

10. On a Second Thought, I’ll Choose the Merlot..

Got more hilarious translation blunders? Post up your comments below, we want a laugh!

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Photos by Engrish.com

“The Time Machine”, “Star Trek”, “Dr Who”… Time travel has captured our creative imaginations for centuries. But could it really make the quantum leap from fiction to reality??

Traveling through time, what a mind-boggling concept! Surely this is just the stuff of science fiction??

Perhaps not! Here are 5 reasons why time travel might just be possible!

1. Professor Ronald Mallett, from the University of Connecticut is building a real-life time machine! He intends to manipulate past, present and future by twisting space and time into a loop.

2. Time travel has not been proven to be possible but it’s also not been proven to be impossible.

3. If matter could be moved faster than light then, according to special relativity, there would be some inertial frame of reference in which the object was moving backwards in time.

4. Physicists at the University of Koblenz claim to have transmitted photons faster than the speed of light, using a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.

5. If a cylinder is infinitely long and spins fast enough about its long axis, then a spaceship flying around the cylinder could travel backwards or forwards in time.

Will time travel will ever be possible? When would you travel to?? Post up your comments below, we want to hear from you!

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More on Professor Mallett’s time travel research.

Photo – Star Trek by As you said.