Category: newsletter
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Fave Website: Japanese Etiquette
If you're going to visit Japan on business, or even if you are going for pleasure, this website shows you how to you bow appropriately and how to behave when…
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Meeting News from Ontario
For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,…
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Unique and exciting expeditions wanted for TV show
Big Red Barn Ent. in Vancouver, Canada, are presently in post production on a documentary called “Bikes on Ice”, where they sent a small digi-cam along with a team of…
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Heat wave in Southern India
If you have plans to visit India this summer – never a good time to go – take note that around 200 people have died during the heat wave that…
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Meeting News from Texas
The Texas Branch of the Globetrotters Club will meet Saturday 14th June 2003 at the New Braunfels Public Library – note back to old location. This month’s meeting will feature…
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Travel Quiz
Win a Frommer’s guidebook on Australia 2003. See www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try google.com or…
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Biometric Passports for UK
The UK Passport Service plans to put biometric chips into passports by 2005. The agency is to run a six-month trial to “evaluate issues around biometric capture using iris, facial…
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Airport Profile: Dallas Fort Worth
The airport is located some 15 miles (24 km) away from Dallas and 18 miles (29 km) away from Fort Worth. There are four terminals: Terminal A is for American/American…
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Being Careful: Terrorist Alerts
Terror alerts are in force around the world; Australia and New Zealand have just warned their nationals to be on their guard in South East Asia: Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, the…
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Currency Conversion
The Globetrotters Club has just teamed up with Oanda.com to provide people with information about currency conversions and cheat sheets. To translate currency or make a cheat sheet, visit: The…