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The Globetrotters Club

The travel club for independent travellers.

Author: The Beetle

  • New Corruption Index

    Transparency International recently published its new index on the world's most countries. At the top of the list, i.e. the least corrupt country is Iceland, followed by Finland and New

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  • Being Careful: the Philippines

    The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all travel to central, southern and Western Mindanao, and the Sulu archipelago including Basilan, Tawi-Tawi and Jolo, where military and police operations

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  • Mac's Travel Reminiscences

    We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences. Scotland. Inch is

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  • Our Friends Ryanair

    Ryanair has defended its policy on disabled passengers after it was criticised for ejecting nine blind and partially sighted passengers from one of its flights. The passengers, all from the

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  • Want to Fly Into Space?

    Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has collected $10m in deposits from people wanting a quick journey beyond Earth's atmosphere. More than 34,000 would-be astronauts have registered for rides aboard a

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  • Mutual Aid

    Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a place or country – want to share something with us – why not visit our Mutual Aid section of the

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  • Exploding Python Ate Alligator

    Alligators have clashed with non native pythons before in Everglades National Park. A 13 ft long python tried to swallow a 6 ft alligator whole and then exploded. Scientists have

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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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  • Plymouth – Banjul Rally

    You may have heard of the Paris – Dakar car rally, well, here's a slightly different take on the idea of driving a car across deserts and getting lost, but

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  • Get In Print

    Europe From a Backpack travel book series are now accepting submissions for Italy From a Backpack and Spain From a Backpack. They are looking for first-person must-tell stories. If you

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  • Greg McKenzie's Motorbike Travels On Ruta 40 in Argentina

    Trip duration: 56 days Trip miles to date: 5,632 Miles since last update: 472 Having completed over 5,600 miles in the previous 5 weeks, these past two weeks have been

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  • Venice Barriers to Go Ahead

    Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed that work on an underwater dam to try to save the lagoon city of Venice from floods will go ahead, despite increasing calls

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  • 20% of Americans Have Passports

    A recent survey of Americans indicates that international travel, particularly for leisure, continues to rise. A record number of nearly 62 million U.S. travellers went abroad last year, up 10

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  • Tibet Railway To Open

    China has announced the completion of the first railway line from Golmud in China's north-western province of Qinghai to Lhasa, in Tibet. The line is expected to start taking passengers

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  • Eleven Reasons to get Married in Scotland by Charlie Taylor

    Scotland has been a favourite holiday destination for many years and now it has a growing reputation as a favourite destination for couples from around the world to tie the

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  • Crocodile Attacks in N Australia

    About a dozen people have been killed by salt-water crocodiles in Australia in the past 20 years. Now divers in northern Australia are calling for development of crocodile warning devices

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  • Air travel no longer cheap

    A report from Malaysia's Star newspaper gives examples of how soaring fuel costs are impacting on air fares in certain instances. They gave two examples: a return ticket to Colombo,

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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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  • Non-stop Bangkok flight

    Thai Airways, Thailand's national carrier, has announced that it will fly non stop from Bangkok to Los Angeles as of Dec. 1. The flight used to stop in Osaka, Japan

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  • Airline of the Year 2005

    Skytrax have conducted the world's “largest” passenger survey, was conducted over an 11 month period (June 2004 – May 2005) to find the world's Airline of the Year. The results

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