Category: newsletter
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Travels from Dar-es-Salaam by Becky Stickland
Becky is a volunteer worker for Trade Aid and is working in Mikindani, Southern Tanzania. This story is a true account of how she experienced a narrow escape and could…
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Top 5 Things to Do in a Lifetime
The BBC recently showed a programme outlining the results of a viewer’s poll stating the top 50 things they thought everyone should do in their life. The top 5 things…
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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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Amina Lawal: Court Quashes Death Sentence
The Globetrotters e-newsletter has been following the case of Amina Lawal, the Nigerian woman who was convicted and sentenced to death by stoning in March 2002 after giving birth to…
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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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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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Your responses on Burma
A big thank you for all your comments and thoughts sent to the Beetle. We had two votes for visiting Burma and one against visiting. What do you think? London…
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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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Thin Girl with a Headscarf by Richard Mowell
Richard Mowll is a civil engineer from Croydon, who travelled to Western Uzbekistan in January 2002 with MSF to rehabilitate a 600 patient TB dispensary. He then went on to…
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Largest countries in the world
Rank Country Area (square kilometers) Russia (17,075,400) Canada (9,976,140) United States (9,629,091) China (9,596,960) Brazil (8,511,965) Australia (7,686,850) India (3,287,590) Argentina (2,776,890) Kazakhstan (2,717,306) Sudan (2,505,810)