Category: archive
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Readers comments: best airport nominations – from Stuart, London
Skagway, Alaska is quite impressive – one shack and a runway! Pyongyang, North Korea – loads of staff servicing very few flights! Canaima, Venezuela, says the Beetle, is quite funny,…
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Ontario:
The last meeting was on March 15: Bruce Weber talked about Yucatan. For information on Ontario meetings, please contact: Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb:…
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Music and Travel By Padmassana
Music and travel have been synonymous since the hippies took their music along with them in the sixties. Certain pieces of music have the ability to remind of places we…
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London Markets: Colombia Road Flower Market
This packed flower market is on one street and gets phenomenally busy. It starts at around 8am on Sundays only and closes up around 1pm, so get there early. Here…
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Jacqui in South America
Buenas dias de Buenos Aires, todo del mundi! Can’t believe how far I’ve travelled and where I have been in the last four weeks! It seems no time since I…
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Dhaka, Bangladesh by Atom Crater
Atom Crater, a former work colleague of the Beetle has recently returned from a work trip to Bangladesh. This month and next, we include some of his observations. Weather report:…
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An Itinerary for South Korea by Kevin, from London
Day 1. Depart Europe via Frankfurt, Lufthansa flights are cheapest, then overnight flight to Seoul. Day 2. Land around noon at Incheon Airport. Take the Airport limousine bus into downtown…
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BBC ONE’s Holiday Swaps Is Back!
Imagine swapping your normal holiday for a surprise trip that could take you anywhere in the world doing almost anything. Holiday Swaps offers you the chance to make this year’s…
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A Cautionary Tale
Easter would not be Easter without a quick diving trip. Last year the Beetle went to the Red Sea on a live aboard, and this year, the Beetle was at…
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Van Exchanges Are Better Than House Trades
Says Peter from California who wrote in to tell us about how he and his partner, Leslie, traded vans and reaped the benefits of cheap travel. “And we”d love to…
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London Underground Travel – the low down
This is not for the faint hearted: if you are a regular traveller on the London Underground, here are some facts that you are going to wish you hadn”t read.…