Author: The Beetle
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Meeting News from London
Globetrotters meeting 5th July 2003 by Padmassana This month we enjoyed slides from club members encompassing destinations all round the Globe. So going (very) roughly in a westerly direction from…
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Meeting News from New York
New York meetings are having a summer break, Laurie and New York meetings will be back in September. For details of forthcoming meetings email: newyork@globetrotters.co.uk. New York meetings are held…
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Meeting News from Ontario
For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,…
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Meeting News from Texas
Globetrotters meeting on August 9th The Texas Branch of the Globetrotters Club will meet August 9th 2003 at the New Braunfels Public Library – note back to old location. If…
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Munich Explored
The Beetle recently visited Munich for shell repairing and discovered that it is a really nice, friendly, pretty and interesting city, easy to get around with some surprising touches –…
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UK Government Asks Travel Operators to Boycott Burma
The UK Foreign Office has asked British tour operators to stop arranging holidays to Burma because of the ruling regime's record on human rights. In a letter to ABTA, the…
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Padmassana Travels To Japan . Part 2
Padmassana went travelling around Kyushu in June/July time. Here is the second of three extracts from his travel journal. I left Beppu in more torrents of rain after a night…
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The World.s Most Expensive Countries
1. Tokyo, Japan 2. Osaka, Japan 3. Oslo, Norway 4. Hong Kong 5. Libreville, Gabon London came 7th in the list. Source: http://www.aneki.com/lists.html
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An Insight into the Culture of Mikindani, Tanzania by Len Coleman
Tanzania has a multi-ethnic and multi-racial population that practices a wide variety of traditions and customs. In Mikindani, the influence of Shirazi Arabs from Persia and traders from the Indian…
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Place Names
As a result of the item about place names, Tom from N. Carolina wrote in to add: in the US state of Georgia we have Cairo, Athens & Rome. There…
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Along the West Highland Way by Matt Doughty
Scotland's first long distance walk, The West Highland Way, is 152km (95 miles) long and links Milngavie (north of Glasgow) to Fort William. It takes walkers along the shores of…
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Guide Books
As a result of our discussion on guidebooks, the following people have sent in their recommendations for guidebooks not on the Beetle’s list. They are: From Globetrotters webmaster Paul, Sunflower…
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New US Security Measures
The Travel Industry Association of America (TIAS) recently warned that several new security measures intended to deter terrorists from entering the United States will also quite likely put off foreign…
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New UN Heritage Sites
This is the second of three descriptions of the 24 sites of “outstanding universal value”, that have been designated world heritage sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…