[Ti] traveling overseas need tech advice

[T Molnar]

Thanks again everyone for your comments.

I think my daughter will be spending her first few months in Britain.
Then on to France.

After that I am not sure of her plans, though she has a working visa 
for Britain.
Again thanks for the feedback,
cheers,
tim

On Jun 17, 2004, at 4:12 AM, alexandre wrote:

>
> Le 14 juin 04, à 11:54, Kynan Shook a écrit :
>
>> I travelled around Europe (Netherlands, France, Spain) for about a 
>> month a few years ago, mostly by bike.  My mom and sister each had 
>> digital cameras, and I brought my iBook along to save the pictures 
>> to.  It worked very well; we periodically burned CDs to back up the 
>> photos.  Occasionally we'd have to fight over outlets as some hostels 
>> had very limited (or poorly placed) electricity.  We didn't really 
>> get online at all while there; but presumably one should be able to 
>> find a wireless hotspot in many cities.  Other options would include 
>> connectivity by cell phone or subscribing to a dial-up service with 
>> local numbers across many countries.  Another method of transferring 
>> files to the internet would be to get a small USB keychain flash 
>> drive, and hook it up to a public computer that's already online - 
>> perhaps a library, the hostels, an internet cafe, or whatever she 
>> might stumble across.
>>
> here in zürich there are countless FREE wifi hotspots in cafés, bars, 
> clubs. internet cafés are not so common, and if so, are quite 
> expensive. public hotspots are still expensive though, thanks to 
> swisscom, orange and sunrise...
> i was in bulgaria last month. one hour in an internet café was about 
> 0.5 euros! the pcs had burners, adsl access... and there are many of 
> them. there was even a free wifi hotspot at sofia airport. great when 
> your plane is delayed three hours.
>
> alexandre
>
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