by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2018 | Fall 2018, Insider, Tips & Tricks
If you are walking down the street in Thailand and a vendor tries to sell you something you are not interested in buying, a useful phrase to have on hand is mai pen rai. If someone thanks you, an appropriate response is mai pen rai. If a family offers you a meal, and...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2015 | Fall 2015, Insider, Insights, Winter 2015
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions,” said Vaclav Havel, a Czech playwright and human rights advocate who became president of Czechoslovakia,...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2014 | Insider, Summer 2014, Travel App
Imagine this: you’ve finally purchased your plane ticket to Vienna, Austria, and you’re leaving on your dream trip in a few months. But before you go, you want to learn a little bit of the language to help you get around. There are a lot of great resources out there,...