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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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  • Padmasana Visits London Open House

    London Open House day back in September was lovely and sunny. The Beetle was not in the country to accompany Padmasana as she usually does, to various places around central

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  • Satellite Photo

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, here's a satellite photo from Google of York Minster:

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  • Air travel no longer cheap

    A report from Malaysia's Star newspaper gives examples of how soaring fuel costs are impacting on air fares in certain instances. They gave two examples: a return ticket to Colombo,

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  • The Jenolan Caves, Blue Mountains

    The Jenolan Caves are around 164 kilometres from Sydney, in the Blue Mountains. They are set in a valley on the far side of the Great Dividing Range and 793

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  • Space Tourist Returns

    The US businessman and scientist Gregory Olsen is the third person to pay to be a space tourist, after American Dennis Tito in 2001 and South African Mark Shuttleworth in

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  • 20% of Americans Have Passports

    A recent survey of Americans indicates that international travel, particularly for leisure, continues to rise. A record number of nearly 62 million U.S. travellers went abroad last year, up 10

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  • Pakistan Earthquake Appeal

    On October 8th, an earthquake around 7.6 on the Richter scale hit close to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Over 80,000 people have died, at least 80,000 injured and 3.3 million

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  • Soccer Flight Scam

    Pilots of a chartered jet carrying 289 Gambian soccer fans faked the need to make an emergency landing in Peru so that passengers could watch their nation's team play a

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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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  • Destination Guide to Bassano del Grappa by Karen Bryan

    Bassano sits in a stunning location by the River Brenta with Monte Grappa in the background. It is about 35 kilometres north east of Vicenza. The town's symbols are said

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  • Fave Website

    Spotted by webmaster Paul: “Because your first trip to Tokyo can be like going to another planet. Planet Tokyo is here to guide you through the culture shock that many

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  • Venice Barriers to Go Ahead

    Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed that work on an underwater dam to try to save the lagoon city of Venice from floods will go ahead, despite increasing calls

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  • Eleven Reasons to get Married in Scotland by Charlie Taylor

    Scotland has been a favourite holiday destination for many years and now it has a growing reputation as a favourite destination for couples from around the world to tie the

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  • Journalism a Dangerous Job

    An independent media watchdog group, the Committee to Protect Journalists, (CPJ), says press freedom was under siege in every corner of the globe last year. The CPJ says Iraq remained

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