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The Globetrotters Club

The travel club for independent travellers.

Author: The Beetle

  • Karrimor Discount

    Karrimor are pleased to announce to all Globetrotters Club members (please note, club members only) a 25% discount through their factory shop (– not available on sales goods). They offer

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  • Angkor Artichokes by Dave Fuller

    “Artichoke. It’s like a hard, rough, green flower.” The gears in my head whirred away as I searched for a description. All around me, serene faces carved out of stone

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  • Gilberto Gil Gives Me A Lift! By Tony Annis

    Globetrotters Committee member Tony, a professional photographer and journalist writes: Going home in a black cab in London, not surprising, but being dropped home by the ‘Minister Of Culture’ certainly

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  • Traveller’s Diseases: Cholera

    What is it: cholera is an acute, diarrhoea illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae via contaminated drink or shellfish. Transmission happens through contaminated water

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  • Our Friends Ryanair

    Ryanair have added nine new routes to its service across Europe. Four of the routes will operate from London’s Stansted Airport: to Linz in Austria, Bari in Italy, Erfurt in

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  • Mac’s Jottings: Malaysia

    U. S. Soldiers Home, Washington: during a century of travel (well 78 years!) both in and out of service I have travelled to over 150 countries (I count both North

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  • Travel Quiz: The Azores

    The winner of last month’s Frommer’s Guidebook on England guide is: Diana Lovelace – congratulations! This month, win a Rother Walking Guide to the Azores. See www.rother.de for info on

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  • Being Careful: Haiti

    The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against all travel to Haiti, and all British nationals in Haiti are advised to leave the country if they can do so

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  • Man Freights Himself

    A man who shipped himself across America in an air cargo crate to avoid paying a passenger fare was fined USD$1,500 and sentenced to 120 days of house arrest. Last

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  • Jetmagic Gone Bust

    Around 400 air passengers are thought to have been stranded abroad after Irish low-cost airline Jetmagic announced it is to cease trading. Jetmagic launched in April 2003 and flew to

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  • Fave Website

    icelandexpress.com/ is a low cost airline that flies to Iceland, and goodness knows, Iceland is expensive, so the more you can save by getting there cheaply, the more there is

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  • Chinese to travel to Cuba

    Cuba has received the first group of Chinese tourists since China designated the Western Hemisphere’s only communist nation as one of its tourism destinations last year. A group of 20

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  • Passport for Barbados

    An eagle eyed Globetrotter wrote in to say: I just found out that starting March 1st, US citizens will be required to have a passport to enter Barbados. Perhaps this

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  • US Citizens May Visit Libya

    The United States recently disclosed that it may soon allow US citizens to visit Libya using American passports and to spend money there, reflecting Libya’s decision to give up weapons

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  • Milford Sound Oil Spill

    A 2 km long oil spill, blamed on sabotage is threatening Milford Sound’s nature reserve. Milford Sound, one of New Zealand’s most spectacular fjords is home to a number of

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  • Airline News: February 2004

    Delta will start two flights from JFK to Denver and San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April, to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in June, and to San Diego in July. In

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  • Travel to the USA

    Globetrotter Tracey asked the Beetle to pass on the following information about the change in visa/passport for travel to the USA. She says: “I’m sure most Globies will know this

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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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  • 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: Andorra

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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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