How Do You Stay In Touch While Traveling Abroad?
It can be difficult keeping in touch with your loved ones or your business contacts while overseas. Traveling abroad limits your usual communication options and is generally more expensive than reaching someone in your home country. Fortunately, there are ways to keep abreast of family affairs and business deals even when separated by oceans or borders. Grab a pen and a notebook for a low-tech solution. Jot down your thoughts, place them in an envelope, lick, and add a stamp. Shipping by sea is cheaper than by air, but it takes longer, somewhere between 7 to 13 days for delivery. If you’re sending a package filled with anything valuable over such a distance, you should definitely consider insuring it. Pick up a landline and dial the country code before the number. This is faster, but will cost you a significant long-distance fee, depending upon where you’re calling. Go high-tech. The cheapest way is using a voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP), which lets you talk, chat or send text fro
