Category: Sidebar
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So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! What is the capital city of the following countries: Tonga…
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Airline News: July 2004
British low-cost airline easyJet will expand further into central Europe in October, adding new routes to Hungary and Poland. EasyJet said in a statement it planned to fly to Krakow…
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Travel Jokes
Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your…
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Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha
Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a…
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Train from Vienna Airport to the Centre
It is now possible to take a train from Vienna airport to Wien-Mitte train station. The journey takes 16 minutes and runs every thirty minutes. Single tickets cost 8 euros…
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Have you got a tale to tell?
If you have a travellers tale that your aching to tell. Then why not visit the “Travel Sized Bites” section of the Website and share it with the world. Travel…
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JFK Baggage Handlers Busted
Police have busted a gang who used their jobs as baggage handlers at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport to avoid inspection of mail bags filled with cocaine and transported…
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Travel Quiz: Moon Guidebook: Four Corners
The winner of last month’s Rough Guide to Peru is: Judith Jones – congratulations, Judith. This month, win a Moon guidebook on Four Corners, this includes Utah, Arizona, Coloradfo and…
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language
The Beetle is often asked for advice on how to go about getting a job teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) overseas. My best advice is to look up…
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Answers to: So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled? Botswana — Gaborone Gabon — Libreville Armenia — Yerevan Turkey — Ankara Norway — Oslo 0 out of 5 – you need…