motels (2)

 

motel.jpg?w=213&h=150&width=213When you come to Brazil, whether it’s on vacation, a business trip or other purposes, and no matter if you’re a man or a woman, there is always the possibility (chance, risk, call it what you want…) that you end up in a situation where you need a room for one, two or three hours.

So what do you do? If you’re in Rio de Janeiro, you might find a hotel that rents rooms by the hour, but the more obvious choice would be a motel.

Motels here are not exactly the same as in, for example, the US. In Brazi

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How Not To Travel With Bed Bugs




A few heads were scratched at AOL Travel’s recent story about bed bugs.
We weren’t scratching from the bugs, but from curiosity: Why would author Libby Zay do a piece on the nasty critters?

A comment from a reader actually suggested she needed “to get a life.”

Well, the reality is that the bed bugs infest places that are part of travel, like motels. hotels, planes, trains and buses. And bed bug infestation is increasing, it seems, because the decline in using pesticides has contributed to the scou
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