Category: Sidebar
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Answers to: So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
The capitals are: Tonga: Nuku’Alofa Albania: Tirane Latvia: Riga Argentina: Buenos Aires Ireland: Dublin 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more! 1-3 – not bad 4…
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New FCO Travel Warnings
The Foreign Office says it will in future be more selective about issuing travel advice on the risk of terrorism. From now on, people will be warned against travelling only…
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San Francisco Virtual Tour
If you’ve ever thought of going to San Francisco and weren’t sure, take a look at this: http://www.virtuar.com/ysf2/ – a virtual tour of San Francisco. It is so real, you…
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Virtual Tour of Nessebar, Bulgaria
The first virtual town web site for The Old town Nessebar in Bulgaria, in four languages, including English. Take a look at:
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Fave Website
Take a look at modern day adventurer John Pilkington’s website. In this, you can see details of the latest and most exciting of John’s journeys which took him up the…
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Pilot Falls Asleep
A pilot for Japan’s All Nippon Airways fell asleep at the controls for several minutes while on a domestic flight and had to be awakened by a government inspector who…
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Increase in Membership Fees in the EU
For a while now postage costs to the EU countries have been rising and has now reached the point where they are on a par with the costs for our…
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Rwanda 10th Anniversary
Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, one of the worst atrocities of the late 20th century – alongside what happened in the Balkans. A bit of…
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Being Careful: Indonesia
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have the following to say about Indonesia: we advise against all non-essential travel to Indonesia. (Which is a great pity as the Beetle is…
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Airline News
New European low-cost airline WIZZ Air plan to start flights from Budapest to seven European cities from June 24. Destinations include London, Barcelona, Athens, Rome, Paris, Prague and Katowice from…