Category: Sidebar
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Cheaper Travel in SE Asia
News comes from SE Asia that some airline ticket have fallen below the cost of bus fares, with a one-way ticket between Singapore and the Thai resort of Phuket advertised…
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A New Silk Route
Forty-five years after it was first proposed, a modern version of the ancient Silk Road that once linked Asia with Europe is taking shape, in the form of a 140,000…
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Fave Website
Kid of Speed This website contains pictures and dialogue (in English) of the after effects of Chernobyl. Some people have said that it is a hoax, but the Beetle thinks…
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Sex Toy Scare Down Under
A vibrating sex toy in a rubbish bin sparked a security scare and closed a Mackay airport in Queensland, Australia for almost an hour. An emergency was declared at the…
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Airline News: October 2004
United Airlines plans to launch daily flights between San Francisco and Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City in December 2004, becoming the first US carrier to resume direct air links since…
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Companions2Travel.co.uk
Companions2Travel matches up like-minded single people looking to travel. Companions2Travel.co.uk is a unique UK website allowing single people to combine their travel plans by simply going online and filling in…
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Travel Jokes
And from the Pilot during his welcome message: “Delta Airlines is pleased to have some of the best Flight Attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this…
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Mt St Helens Risk
Scientists have warned that Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state is likely to erupt again very soon. Federal authorities are evacuating everyone from a five-mile radius around the mountain. …
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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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Fancy a Trip into Space?
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has signed a £14m agreement which will allow passengers to travel into space. Branson has commissioned five “spaceliners” built in the US by the team…
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New Tunnel under the Bosporus
Work on a tunnel and rail system under the Bosporus Strait connecting Europe and Asia in has just started in Istanbul. The tunnel will be 13.7 kilometres long, (8.5 mile)…
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Electronic Ticketing
Paperless and ticketless bookings made more attractive by incentives, discounts and offers of air miles are fast becoming the way to travel. Airlines are planning to stop issuing paper tickets…
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French Card Fraud
France has been ranked as the place where British holidaymakers are most likely to become victims of credit card fraud. Barclaycard’s annual world fraud index shows that France is the…
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New Iran Island Resort
Iran is to build a 1.7 billion euro ($2.0 billion) luxury tourism project on the Gulf island of Kish designed to rival nearby tourism hotspot Dubai. Kish is a small…
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Cat Lost in Florida Is Found in California
From a newspaper article spotted by Frank in the US.ï¿Â½ Workers at San Francisco’s Department of Animal Care and Control located the owner of a newly arrived stray cat they…
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New Terminal for Moscow
Moscow’s Vnukovo airport has launched a new international terminal as part of a $1.3 billion modernization plan.ï¿Â½ Anyone who has passed through Vnukovo airport will agree that it is pretty…
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Being Careful: Zambia
This advice is from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office about Zambia. Violent and armed robberies and vehicle hijackings are increasing. Lusaka, the Copperbelt towns and other tourist centres are…
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Paris to the Med Link
A new bridge over the River Tarn in France’s Massif Central mountains has just been finished. The bridge which completes a new motorway link that connects Paris and the Mediterranean…
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Great Lakes Ferry
A new high-speed, high-tech ferry has just started a crossing Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee to Muskegon, a 76 nautical miles journey in about two and a half hours. The ferry…
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Thanks to Globetrotters
I want to thank all the members who helped me in my research for a novel I was writing set on the liner Queen Elizabeth in the 1960s. ‘ Cherry…