Category: Sidebar
-
Gorilla Threat
If you, like the Beetle have a yen to go and visit the gorillas, it is disheartening to learn from a recent survey that over 5,000 gorillas may have died…
-
Help Your Friends Out
People you care about can benefit from the wealth of information about travel available on the Internet. Help them learn how to do it by forwarding them this issue of…
-
Being Careful: Thailand
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to Thailand. The Beetle notes that it is interesting when governments issue travel warnings, when you have first…
-
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…
-
Cocaine on Banknotes
Using the latest forensic techniques, scientists at Dublin’s City University have discovered that One hundred percent of banknotes in the Republic of Ireland carry traces of cocaine. The researchers were…
-
Indian Cobra Charmers
Pressure from animal rights activists has resulted in many Indian snake charmer’s snakes, (mostly cobras one of India’s endangered reptiles,) being impounded. What to do? Enterprisingly, the newly unemployed Indian…
-
Snakes Earthquake Warnings
Still on the subject of snakes, China has come up with a novel earthquake prediction system which relies on the behaviour of snakes. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of…
-
Volunteer as a Teacher in Ghana
Help A School in Ghana HASPOG is a non-governmental organisation whose goal is to help enhance education and development in Ghana and at the same time promote healthy interaction among…
-
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…
-
Fave Website
Spotted by Mac – a complete listing of all UNESCO sites around the world. A great resource.
-
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…
-
On Line UK Petition
If you want to make a statement about the new increased airport tax, here’s a petition to sign. Signatures are valid to 12th March 2007. We the undersigned petition the…
-
Che Guevara Image Not On in the US
If you’ve ever visited the US, you may have shopped at a Target store – the Beetle likes them very much. Late December 2006, Target got into a bit of…
-
T-Shirt Ban on Airplane
And still on the subject of images – this time on clothing – an Australian airline passenger stopped from boarding a flight for wearing a T-shirt labelling President Bush a…
-
Dont Even Think About It
Despite pleas for clemency from human rights groups, Singapore has executed a Nigerian man and another stateless man from Africa. One was arrested at Changi airport in Singapore in 2004,…
-
New US Passport Rules
Only about a quarter of the population of the US (latest estimate 298 million as at July 2006) hold valid passports, and most Americans are used to being allowed able…
-
Papua New Guinea Sorcery
News comes of four women from the Highlands region in Papua New Guinea accused of using sorcery to cause a fatal road crash have been murdered. A BBC report says…
-
Human Zoo.
The zoo in Adelaide has put a group of humans on display to raise awareness about primate conservation. The humans will be locked in an unused orang-utan cage for a…
-
NASA Moon Base
US space agency NASA has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020. The base is likely…
-
UK Train Fares to Rise
British train fares have increased yet again as from January 1st 2007. The Association of Train Operating Companies said that regulated fares, including season tickets and saver tickets, would rise…