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  • World's Largest Subway Systems (by rider ship)

    World’s Largest Subway Systems (by rider ship) City Date system completed Number of riders (year) Length (km) Moscow 1935 3.2 bil (1997) 340 Tokyo 1927 2.6 bil (1997/98) 281+ Seoul

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  • Volunteer Corner

    The South American Explorers Club are looking for new volunteers and interns in their Buenos Aires Clubhouse as they are expanding the services they offer. There are many exciting volunteer

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  • Mac's Travel Reminiscences

    Mac has not been very well but is still e-mailing strong. Here is an account by Paul Haring, a US journalist writing about Mac’s exploits during WW2. The article is

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  • Our Friends Ryanair

    More news re Ryanair who have been told by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading(OFT) to remove their small print in their ticket info over their attempt to avoid paying

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  • Being Careful: Zambia

    The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to parts of the north western Copperbelt, Central and Luapula provinces, which are close to the border with

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  • Globetrotters Travel Award

    A member of Globetrotters Club? Interested in a £1,000 travel award? Know someone who is? We have £1,000 to award each year for five years for the best submitted independent

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  • Russian Driving

    Mosnews, the Moscow based online daily newspaper recently reported a Goodyear poll researching why Russians are among the worse drivers in Europe. They report that being such bad drivers can

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  • In Bad Taste: the Crippendales

    The British gave us the Full Monty, the Americans gave us the Chippendales, and now there is a troupe of disabled male strippers, who self-mockingly call themselves The Crippendales. The

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  • Climate Change and Flying

    The Kyoto Protocol is the only global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, though its attempts at reducing emissions and the effects of climate change are limited. The world’s biggest

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  • Compulsory Golf Lessons in China

    Golf, once frowned upon by China’s Communist Party, is now enjoyed by the country’s rich and powerful, and has grown in popularity in recent years. News comes from the China

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  • Bradt Travel Guides and Pub Quizzes

    Bradt Travel Guides are holding a pub and travel quiz with other travel companies at various UK venues. Below are some of the destinations: Tue 7th Nov ’06 in Oxford

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  • Buying Foreign Currency in London

    Neil Harris writes in to say: buying foreign currency from a high street bank or travel agency either involves a hefty commission or a poor rate of exchange. I’ve found

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  • Fave Website

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, this is an excellent source of low cost air travel from the UK and includes many airlines, especially charter airlines that the Beetle has never heard

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  • New Blood Clot Study

    A new Netherlands study of blood clots has shown that travelling for more than four hours by air, car, bus or train can all increase the risk of blood clots,

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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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  • November: Travel writing courses with top professionals

    Globetrotters interested in travel writing have two inspiring opportunities to learn this November with Travellers Tales, the UK’s leading travel writing and photography training agency. We’ll be in Granada, Spain,

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  • Help Jeanie conquer Kili

    In January, 2007, our Legacy co-ordinator Jeanie Copland will be taking part in an ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro, 5895 metres, to raise money for VSO and would welcome your support.

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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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  • Australian Drought Affects Farmers

    Did you know that Australia is suffering a drought, now in its sixth year, and the worst in over a century? Australian farmers have been hardest hit, forced to make

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  • heading needed

    A German art student briefly fooled police by posing as one of China’s terracotta warriors at the heritage site in the ancient capital, Xian. Pablo Wendel, who is studying in

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