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UK TV Show Needs Volunteers
Would you like to take part in a documentary we are currently making for Channel 4? It is provisionally titled Travellers Tales, and is about travellers who have experienced tropical…
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Currency Conversion
The Globetrotters Club has just teamed up with Oanda.com to provide people with information about currency conversions and cheat sheets. To translate currency or make a cheat sheet, visit: The…
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Budget Airline Easyjet Gets Into Trouble
Budget airline EasyJet has been told by a UK advertising watchdog to make the true cost of its flights clearer in its adverts. The carrier must include potential taxes and…
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Eco-tax on Balearics set to be abolished
Visitor figures to the Balearic Islands have slumped because of a controversial eco-tax introduced just a year ago. The tax, (around £12 million raised so far) paid by tourists to…
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Mutual Aid
Can anyone give Sue some itinerary advice about 3 weeks in Australia in July 2004 and also the Bungle Bungles? Please contact her on : sue.learoyd@btinternet.com Need help? Want a…
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Mac Tells US About Round the World Walker
U. S. Soldiers Home, Mac: I am a compulsive reader and pick up any newspaper, any printed matter I see laying around and start reading. This is from January 14,…
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Tahir Shah’s Film on C5, UK TV
If you live in the UK, and have access to Channel 5, then switch on, tune on to Search for the lost city of Gold, Channel 5, 9pm Weds 9th…
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Where do Britons Travel?
According to figures from the UK’s Government’s Office for National Statistics, Spain was the most popular destination for residents of the UK in 2002. British people made 12.6m visits to…
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Physiotherapy – Matt Maddocks
Matt is a volunteer at the Old Boma, Mikindani, Southern Tanzania. During a visit last year to Mikindani, I was informed of a physiotherapist working in Nyanguo mission hospital and…
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Solomon Islands
The Australian and New Zealand governments have both said they will commit to sending army and police forces to nearby troubled Solomon Islands. The on-going ethnic violence has resulted in…