Briefly, I filed a complaint against Trip dot com to PayPal after I purchased tickets through PayPal from them.

Trip was recently fined over 700 million dollars in Asia for threatening users and other nefarious things.

I waited for a long time, the flight date was approaching and nothing was happening. I suspected the travel platform was deliberately delaying until the flight took off.

I finally asked a PayPal customer service agent what to do. After she heard the complaint, she literally told me to contact my bank and get a chargeback.

I got a chargeback. My bank returned all my money.

Now PayPal is contesting my chargeback. So they tell you to get a chargeback and then they contest it.

Again, their resolution center has pushed the date of resolution beyond my flight departure. They have also blocked me from adding any information to my complaint.

Help.

What are the best places my wife and I can visit this winter? We went to Alsace previous year and absolutely loved that place. Now looking for another great spot, do suggest!

I have a chronic health condition and this year has been hell with the hot temperatures. I am seriously considering spending sometime further North next year and I'm looking for rental recommendations. I would head to any of the following countries:

• Iceland
• Norway
• Faroe Islands
• Sweden
• Finland I would want to rent somewhere with the following credentials:
• Rental for between 3 and 14 days
• Out of town, but walkable to a shop/market/supermarket
• View over water/ocean (preferably with boats/boats passing). Generally just an incredible view.
• Large windows
• Fibre broadband

If anyone has any great recommendations, please DO let me know!

Thanks in advance!

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I build free map sites such as Trainrouter, Castlemap and Filmmap. The world sunshine map settles a question I could never answer properly. If I want sun in a particular month, where should I go?

It covers 3,833 destinations in 235 countries. Look up anywhere you are considering and you get its sunniest month, annual sunshine hours, and a month by month breakdown of temperature, rain and UV, plus sea temperature on the coast.

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There are no ads and no sign up. It only covers places with an airport, so it is a map of where you can fly rather than every town.

Happy to answer anything and feedback is always welcome.

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Hi, so here's the situation : I need to access government services in a different country to the one I live in permanently, and therefore I need a number in said country with the ability to receive SMS for login and payment confirmations. How should I go about it ?

I guess the easiest thing to do would be to wait for the next time I go there and buy a cheap SIM card there. But the problem is I'm only going to that country in a year from now, so I'd like to speed up things.

I thought about getting an e-SIM with the lowest amount possible of data, but it still comes out pretty expensive for just receiving confirmation messages.

Anyone have a better idea on how to do this ? How do double citizens go about this usually ?

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This website serves as a guide to Hungarian thermal baths and the country's rich spa culture. It provides information on various hot springs, historical bathhouses, and wellness destinations across Hungary.

Website

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I stumbled across Roost by accident and have been having a great time with it. It’s an indie pen-pal app where messages travel at the pace of the birds, and I’ve really enjoyed meeting people from around the world, if you decide to join my referral code is SFJSPN. Feel free to join & send me a message I’d love to hear about whatever you’ve got to say! Ciao for now!

Any ideas for cool things to do with a one year old and a five year old?

Traveling to Beijing, China soon. Last time I've been there was... over 20 years ago. I loved it then and there's no reason I shouldn't now. But since so much has changed, I'm preparing for a kind of shock - or at least some very strong impact.

Any hot takes, tips, things to do, pay attention to?

For example: Which esim should one use? Are there some esims with unrestricted access to foreign resources? If not, would MulladVPN be a good choice? And what about payment via app?