Category: Sidebar
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New Thai Visa Rules
Thailand has changed its immigration rules to deter foreigners from 41 countries, including the UK, from working illegally on tourist visas. The old arrangement allowed visa-free tourist entry for 30
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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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Indian Airways Hostesses Sacked for Being Too Fat
Eleven employees at Indian Airways have recently been grounded for putting on too much weight. The airline which is being taken to court over the legality of firing its air
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Japanese Weddings
Although Japanese Christians make up only 1% of the country’s population, about 90% of weddings in Japan are in the Christian style, complete with the words, “you may now kiss
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Tsunami Warning System
The first of a planned series of tsunami early warning buoys is being put down in the Indian Ocean. The buoy, provided by the US, (who already operate a similar
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Emirates 'to debut mobile calls'
Dubai-based Emirates will become the first airline to allow passengers to make mobile phone calls on its flights. Emirates expects to launch the service on one of its Boeing 777
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Fave Website
Spotted by webmaster Paul: gapadvice.org Independent advice on gap years, for people of all ages.
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World Snake Charmer Dead
A snake charmer who made a name for himself as Malaysia’s Snake King has died after being bitten by a king cobra. Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, gained a place in
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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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US Shopping Taxable
British shoppers heading across the Atlantic to the United States have been warned by HM Revenue and Customs that they must declare gifts bought in the US totalling over £145.
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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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Low Cost Carrier Resource
Spotted by Mac: a well compiled and complete list of LCC – Low Cost Carriers – These are the cheapest of the cheap airlines, and NOT listed or sold normally
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Don’t Scare the Elephants
News from Malaysia says that motorists driving along the East-West Highway in particular the stretch of road leading to Banding and Kota Baru in the east coast must not honk
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Buy One Get One Free: Europe From a Backpack
Europe From a Backpack series travel books have just published Italy From a Backpack and Spain From a Backpack. This is how the publishers describe the Europe Backpack books: despite
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Italian Cheese Snatchers
News from Italy reaches the Beetle of cheese raids, with criminal gangs hijacking lorries containing wheels of Parmesan cheese, cutting them up and selling them to stores. The Italian farmers’
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Kenyan Sex Tourism
According to a recent UN report, up to 30% of girls in some Kenyan resorts are involved in the sex industry. The UN children’s fund UNICEF, which looked at resorts
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New Railway Planned for Nigeria
China is to build a 1,315 km railway line running north – south connecting Nigeria’s two main commercial cities, Lagos and Kano. Nigeria’s leader President Olusegun Obasanjo said the five-year
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Stern Reports on Climate Change
Australia’s Treasurer Peter Costello has said there is “no point” Australia signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change unless it applies to China and India too. Australia, like the US,
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Cooking With Coca
We normally associate Venezuela’s president Snr Hugo Chavez with outrageous pronouncements. Peru’s President, Alan Garcia has entered the fray for the title of most controversial remarks: he recently suggested that