Category: Sidebar
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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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Indian Railways E-Ticketing
Indian Railways has announced that it plans to introduce electronic tickets. Electronic tickets can be purchased for trains between New Delhi and Kalka, in northern India. Passengers have to show…
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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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Great Apes a Dying Breed
Ministers from 23 countries in Africa and south-east Asia have appealed for international help to save the world's great apes from extinction. Urgent action was needed to protect the great…
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UN: Antarctica Under Threat
Kofi Anan says that substantial increases in illegal fishing, tourism, bio-prospecting, climate change and depletion of the ozone continue to pose major challenges to the Antarctic, and governments should continue…
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Fave Website
Spotted on the Globetrotter's forum: http://milvetstravel.net/virtualtours.html is a website that allows you to take virtual tours of a whole host of places – check it out, it's pretty interesting!
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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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Delta and Northwest Bankrupt
Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, the third and fourth-largest US air carriers, both declared bankruptcy in September citing rising oil prices and low-cost competition among their reasons.
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Travel Writing Workshop
Saturday 12th November 2005, 10.30am – 4.00pm Location: The Newsroom, The Guardian 60 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3GA Cost: £87.50 A day of two intensive workshops: Travel writing and how…
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2006 Total Eclipse
On Wednesday, 29th March 2006, the shadow of the Moon will sweep a band starting from Brazil, through Atlantic Ocean, Gold Coast of Africa, Saharan Desert, Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Black…
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Is Flying Safe?
We have seen four fatal plane crashes this month in Europe and South America claim the lives of hundreds of people. On 6 August at least 13 of 39 passengers…
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Swaziland Tassel Burning Ceremony
Since 2001, in Swaziland, teenage girls have had to wear large woollen tassels as a sign of their chastity. Now news comes that Swaziland's King Mswati III has ended a…
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World Airport News June 2005
Spanish travel group Marsans, which owns Aerolineas Argentinas, plans to create a new unit in Peru and begin flights there within five months. An Aerolineas spokesman said they expected the…
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Being Careful: Aceh
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all travel to Aceh except for those involved in post-tsunami humanitarian and reconstruction work under the auspices of a recognised aid organisation…
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New Rat Found in Laos
A completely new family of rodents, a kind of rat has been found in Laos. The animal has long whiskers, stubby legs and a tail covered in dense hair and…
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Message in a Bottle Saves Lives
86 mainly teenage migrants from Ecuador and Peru, have been found by Costa Rican officials adrift in their packed boat for three days. They sent a message in a bottle…
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Drunk and Disorderly
Two former America West pilots Christopher Hughes and Thomas Cloyd were removed from an Airbus A319 in Miami on July 1, 2002, and charged with operating a plane under the…
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Stowaway Died
Pieces of a man’s body including the right leg, part of the spine and a hip, struck a garage roof of the home in South Floral Park, New York, before…
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Stowaway Dies
A Chinese boy died after falling from the landing gear of a passenger jet on take-off in north China. The stowaway, believed to be aged around 10, fell from a…
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Getting to Stansted Airport
John from London wrote in to share some information about getting to London Stansted airport. He says: I share your frustrations about the cost and unreliability of the train service…