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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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  • Siberian Tigers to go to Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe is said to be about to import four endangered Siberian tigers from China for captive breeding.  China had received zebras, elephants and impala as part of an “exchange programme”.

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  • Access Cash Overseas

    Ever worried about being able to access your cash whilst overseas?  These two websites allow you to locate Visa and Mastercard ATMs.

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  • Shaolin Temple, Wales

    A monk has travelled from China to Ruabon, near Wrexham in Wales to help open a special temple to teach the ancient discipline of Shaolin.  Shi Xing Du will draft

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  • MEETING NEWS

    Meeting news from around the world.

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  • Tiger Meat Restaurant Busted in China

    A restaurant in north east China was closed down for listing stir fried tiger meat with peppers for US $98 or a kilo of tiger meat for US $ 863. 

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  • European Airline Delays

    According to a recent study, some 30% of European flights from London Heathrow were delayed in 2004. The average delay per flight was 33 minutes.  Zurich and Vienna were the

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  • Meeting News from London by Padmassana

    September 2005 London meeting.  Globies kicked off the newseason at our temporary venue The Concert Artists Association onthe other side of Covent Garden.  Jules Stewartstarted the season with his talk

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  • Singapore Giant Ferris

    Singapore is following London's lead and plans to build a giant Ferris wheel.  Designers estimate that it will be 142 feet taller than the London Eye and say that visitors

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  • Satellite Photo

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, here's a satellite photo from Google of the Stonehenge

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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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  • Protect against Malaria

    Campaigners organising Malaria Awareness Week say that British tourists are too complacent about contracting malaria as they travel to more and more far flung locations.  In particular, last minute bargain

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  • "Failed States" Warning

    Recent research from the United States publication Foreign Policy and the US NGO “Fund for Peace” has identified the twenty most vulnerable countries as: Ivory Coast, Congo, Sudan, Iraq, Somalia,

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  • Greg McKenzie's Motorbike Travels from Rio Gallegos to Ushuaia

    Trip duration: 19 days Trip miles to date: 3,040 Miles since last update: 1,023 I've recently arrived in Peurto Natalès having successfully visited Ushuaia and the end-of-the-world!!! Having hoped to

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  • Chinese Bi-Lingual Signs

    The Beijing Municipal Traffic Administration has launched a campaign to standardise road signs to make it easier for visitors to navigate the city.  Bilingual Chinese-English signs are to be displayed

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  • British Health Cover Overseas

    British health officials are concerned that UK citizens are not taking E111 forms with them when they jump on a plane to EU countries.  Form E111 covers medical treatment at

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  • Destination Guide – Trieste by Karen Bryan

    Trieste is an Adriatic coastal city in north eastern Italy, close to the border with Slovenia. The sea in the Gulf of Trieste is very clear and clean, with limestone

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  • Hotel Armed Robberies in Zanzibar

    In the past two weeks, there have been two major armed robberies at separate hotels in Zanzibar.  The first robbery took place at the Coral Reef Hotel about 28 miles

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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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  • The Legend of Sangkuriang by Tedy

    West Java is one of the five provinces of Java, Indonesia. Bandung is the capital city. The greater part of west Java is mountainous, with the Priangan highlands forming the

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