Category: Sidebar
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Travel Quiz
Win a Frommer’s guidebook on the USA 2003. See www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s guidebooks. The winner of last month’s Frommer’s guide to Los Angeles is Nancy Haggarty. Some people
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Sorry, we ate your missionary
Ratu Filimoni Wawabaluva, a chief from Navosa, on the Fijian island of Viti Levu, has announced that a traditional apology ceremony is to be held to apologise 136 years after
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Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled? Bangladesh: Dhaka Guyana: Georgetown Oman: Muscat Syria: Damascas Vietnam: Hanoi 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more! 1-3 – not bad 4 – very good! You are a Globetrotter! 5 – are you sure you didn’t sneak a look?
Bangladesh: Dhaka Guyana: Georgetown Oman: Muscat Syria: Damascas Vietnam: Hanoi 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more! 1-3 – not bad 4 – very good! You
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Discount on Karrimor products
Karrimor are pleased to announce to all Globetrotters Club members (please note, club members only and not Including sale goods) a 25% discount through their factory shop. They offer a
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Money in Sick Bags
When you sit on that plane and feel for the sick bag, think again. Online auctioneer eBay has a section for unused sick bags from almost ever airline around the
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Tourists Kidnapped in SE Iran
Three cyclists, two German, one Irish are reported missing between the city of Bam and Zahedan near the Pakistani border – a notorious opium smuggling route from Afghanistan to Western
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Globetrotters Travel Award
Under 30? 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
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Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will change the current two-tier price system for Vietnamese and foreigners from January 1 next year to boost tourism. Foreigners will no longer pay
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No Hunting Please – We’re Lions
A recent report from Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit says that fewer than 20,000 lions may now survive in the whole of Africa, although they do not face immediate
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Faliraki Club Reps
Club Reps, a bawdy real life UK TV documentary on the goings on in the town of Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes is blamed for an increase in
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Giant Squid Found Dead
Four giant squid, one of which is said to be the length of a bus – 12 metres long – have been washed up on the northern Asturias coast of
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Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled?
1. Austria: Vienna 2. Ethiopia: Adis Abbaba 3. Mauritius: Port Louis 4. Swaziland: Mbabane 5. Vanuatu: Port Vila 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more! 1-3
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Danube Wrecks
Due to the unseasonably hot weather Europe has been facing over the summer months, the Danube has fallen to its lowest level for over 120 years. This is normally bad
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Discount on Karrimor products
Karrimor are pleased to announce to all Globetrotters Club members (please note, club members only and not Including sale goods) a 25% discount through their factory shop. They offer a
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Mutual Aid
We are a couple in our mid 50’s in Australia. We are experienced campervan travellers who wish to travel in UK during mid April 2004 – mid August 2004. We
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Visiting Iceland?
Gudbjorg offers his services to e-newsletter readers. If you are planning to visit Iceland, he can arrange a variety of trips. He is a trained tour guide, has transport and
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BBC Appeal for Help
We are looking for help with a programme we’re making for BBC2 called 1001 Things to Improve Your Life. Would you be interested in being filmed? The show is about
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Accomodation in Mysore, India
Anyone planning a few days stay there. Globetrotter Ashley recommends a newly built ‘penthouse’ above a village type shop 2km from centre in Mysore. There is a sitting room, dining
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Fave Website
Our webmaster spotted this: an on line travel magazine for more mature travellers, with a guide book, links directory and travel article library. For example, the travel article section includes
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Malaria Treatment Breakthrough
The World Health Organsation (WHO) says that affordable and effective treatment against malaria should be available by about 2006. More than one million people, mostly children under the age of