by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 8, 2018 | Insider, Winter 2018
“Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day.” Staring out your hotel window at a day marred by precipitation, you might find yourself humming this nursery rhyme. You’ve traveled far and spent a lot of money to come on this vacation, and now your sightseeing plans are...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2015 | Fall 2015, Gadgets & Gear, Insider
While traveling, not everyone remembers to bring an umbrella for the unexpected rain-storm. And locals in wet climates sometimes feel that umbrellas can prove annoying, cumbersome, and hard to dry out. So what can you do to stay dry without an umbrella? Well, when in...
by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 1, 2013 | Culture, Fall 2013, Life
There’s not a drop in the sky, but one in ten people on the streets of Zhongshan, China, are carrying an umbrella. No, they’re not over prepared; they’re protecting the porcelain skin they’ve been trying to keep up all winter. The word umbrella is taken from the Latin...
