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  • Survey Corner: Top Hotel in the World

    Institutional Investor magazine’s recently ran its 25th annual survey of its wealthy readers. The St. Regis Hotel in New York was ranked first among the world’s top hotels by Institutional

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  • Kew Palace To Open

    Kew Palace in south-west London once a royal palace that was once home to “mad” King George III is to open to the public after being shut for 10 years.

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  • Mac's Travel Reminiscences

    Mac has not been very well, but is still e-mailing strong. Here’s an account of a trip he made to South Africa some time ago. In South Africa I had

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  • Afghan Ladies Driving School

    The Beetle read a touching account from the BBC News on-line about women in Afghanistan having freedoms but not being free to enjoy these. This is what it said: Girls

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  • Our Friends Ryanair

    Ryanair will soon make passengers who wish to travel with bags that weigh over 10kg (the weight limit for bags permitted as hand luggage) pay £5 per piece of checked

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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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  • 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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  • Being Careful: Eritrea

    The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to Eritrea. We advise against all travel to the border areas with Ethiopia and Sudan. In recent weeks,

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  • Famine in the Horn of Africa

    Thinking of visiting the Horn of Africa? You along with millions of others may go hungry. The United Nations food agency (FAO) has warned that millions of people could face

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  • Garuda

    UK based Neil wrote in to the Beetle warning travellers about Garuda. This is what he says: Garuda have a reputation for being unreliable. On a recent trip to Indonesia

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  • Travel Facts

    Travel Facts Brazil takes up 47.8% of South America. Australians have a huge 380,000 sq m of land per person – and yet 91% live in urban areas. Nearly a

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  • US Crime Rate Drops

    The FBI recently released crime figures in the USA. Murders across the United States fell for the first time in five years, while rapes increased slightly last year. Overall, the

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  • SatellitePhoto

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, here’s a satellite photo from Google of Hampton Court

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  • MEETING NEWS

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  • Virgin Blue Ageism

    Sir Richard Branson’s Australian budget carrier Virgin Blue was found guilty of discriminating against older women who applied to become air hostesses. Eight women aged between 36 and 56 took

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  • Fave Website

    Spotted by Mac: this is a useful source of information to plan your travel. See: RTW Travel Planner

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  • Meeting News from London byPadmassana

    Our first speaker today was Terry Richardson, who showed us a new walking route in Turkey called “The St Paul’s Trail”, which starts down on the coast near Antalya and

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  • Monkey Business

    41 of the 110 Orang-Utans are missing from Bangkok’s “Safari World” wildlife and amusement park, known for its Orang-Utan kick-boxing shows. The “Safari Park” manager says the creatures died from

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  • Air Asia Bargains

    My reason for belonging to Globetrotters is to share ideas and information about travel. Because of this I wanted to share the following info with all it’s members before it

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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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