Category: archive
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Letter From Lisbon Part 2 by Sally Pethybridge
Having decided that my hair was in desperate need of some care and attention, I decided to be brave and try to get my hair done. The word for hairdresser…
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Large Travellers May Damage Your Health!
A passenger on a Virgin Atlantic flight has won a GBP£13,000 (USD$20,000) award after being injured by an obese woman in the next seat. Barbara Hewson, from Swansea in Wales,…
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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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Curacao: the perfect diving spot for family men…and family women, Part 2
Philippe continues his tale of diving and exploring Curacao with his family. Harry and his wife, Ann-Marie, have done all in their power to help us achieving the best diving…
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Is Anyone There?
Absolutely a true story: the pilot of an SAS plane, on a domestic flight in Sweden, called up an airport control tower for clearance to land and found no one…
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Moscow is not a city but a whole world by Katia in Moscow
When I was a little girl and the trees seemed too big for me I was first taken to Red Square by my farther. It is a wonderful feeling to…
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Fave Websites of the Month
We think that all Globetrotters should go and visit the new Frommer’s Budget Travel site on MNSBC. There are some great articles, a notice board for sharing tips, posting issues…
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Visiting Cape Town for the first time by Geoff
Most visitors to Cape Town arrive by air and land at Cape Town's International Airport. The International terminal has recently been upgraded and facilities are good. The airport is about…
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Airline News
Air Canada and Australia's leading carrier, Qantas, will both reduce flights over the next two months to Taiwan because they say they cannot make enough money from them. Canada's new…
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What Counts as Having Visited a Country?
Darrell from Washington, DC, wrote in: “someone who visited both Prague and Bratislava before Czechoslovakia split should get credit for two countries. Likewise, chalk up two countries if someone visited…