Category: enewsletter
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Indian Cobra Charmers
Pressure from animal rights activists has resulted in many Indian snake charmer’s snakes, (mostly cobras one of India’s endangered reptiles,) being impounded. What to do? Enterprisingly, the newly unemployed Indian
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Snakes Earthquake Warnings
Still on the subject of snakes, China has come up with a novel earthquake prediction system which relies on the behaviour of snakes. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of
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Volunteer as a Teacher in Ghana
Help A School in Ghana HASPOG is a non-governmental organisation whose goal is to help enhance education and development in Ghana and at the same time promote healthy interaction among
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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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Fave Website
Spotted by Mac – a complete listing of all UNESCO sites around the world. A great resource.
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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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On Line UK Petition
If you want to make a statement about the new increased airport tax, here’s a petition to sign. Signatures are valid to 12th March 2007. We the undersigned petition the
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Che Guevara Image Not On in the US
If you’ve ever visited the US, you may have shopped at a Target store – the Beetle likes them very much. Late December 2006, Target got into a bit of
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T-Shirt Ban on Airplane
And still on the subject of images – this time on clothing – an Australian airline passenger stopped from boarding a flight for wearing a T-shirt labelling President Bush a
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Dont Even Think About It
Despite pleas for clemency from human rights groups, Singapore has executed a Nigerian man and another stateless man from Africa. One was arrested at Changi airport in Singapore in 2004,
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New US Passport Rules
Only about a quarter of the population of the US (latest estimate 298 million as at July 2006) hold valid passports, and most Americans are used to being allowed able
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Papua New Guinea Sorcery
News comes of four women from the Highlands region in Papua New Guinea accused of using sorcery to cause a fatal road crash have been murdered. A BBC report says
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Human Zoo.
The zoo in Adelaide has put a group of humans on display to raise awareness about primate conservation. The humans will be locked in an unused orang-utan cage for a
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NASA Moon Base
US space agency NASA has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020. The base is likely
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UK Train Fares to Rise
British train fares have increased yet again as from January 1st 2007. The Association of Train Operating Companies said that regulated fares, including season tickets and saver tickets, would rise
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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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No Spitting Please
News from the China Daily that taxi drivers in China’s financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with “spit sacks” to curb their habit of rolling down their windows
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Macs Travel Tip
The value of having a photocopy of the first page of your passport proved to be true for a lady military friend of mine. On a Saturday getting off tour
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Sitting Pretty
Police recently arrested a Kazak man trying to smuggle 500 parrots in his car from neighbouring Uzbekistan. Border guards are said to have discovered a live cargo of 500 parrots
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EU Embassy Help
Most EU citizens are not aware of their rights to seek help from fellow- members’ embassies when traveling abroad. A recent EU survey found only 23 percent of those questioned