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Tag: December 2002

  • Cardiff by Olwen

    Cardiff, home of the Millennium Stadium, city of so much more. Sight seeing buses leave from outside the castle regularly throughout the summer. However a tour of the Stadium costs

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  • Free London Museums: Theatre Museum

    Located, appropriately enough, in the heart of Theatreland, the Theatre Museum is dedicated to promoting the performing arts. In addition to housing the National Video Archive of Stage Performance, the

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  • Currency Conversion

    A recent UK survey for the Department for Education found that of over 1,000 adults, 30% felt unable to compare rates in exchange bureaux. A similar proportion said they were

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  • Weekend Away:Lille, France

    The place: Lille is small enough to wander around, in a weekend. There are two parts to Lille: the old town, which has narrow cobbled streets, and lots of interesting

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  • Ciudad Juarez Women Murdered

    More than 300 young girls and women have been killed in Ciudad Juarez since 1993 on the other side of the US border, across from El Paso, Texas. Late November,

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  • Racial Profiling at US Airports

    Celebrated Canadian author, Rohinton Mistry, has cancelled the second half of his US book tour because of racial profiling at US airports. Mr Mistry – the Indian-born author short-listed for

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  • Mac.s Jottings

    Signs and thoughts that Mac has seen or experienced on his travels around the world, and noted down in his travel diary. l. Hong Kong. Budget Garden Hostel. Sign. “No

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  • New Diver Record

    A South African scuba diver set a new world record after living underwater in a steel tank for 10 days and surviving by eating through a tube. Tim Yarrow was

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  • The Spratly Islands

    The Spratly Islands are 100 tiny formerly uninhabited islets and reefs making up 5 km of actual land spread over 410,000 sq km of sea. They are believed to have

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  • Woolly Mammoth Find

    The remains of four woolly rhinos have been unearthed in an English quarry. Scientists describe the group find at Whitemoor Haye in Staffordshire as “extraordinary” and one of the best

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  • Execution denounced in world protest

    A coalition of international human rights organisations is calling on countries around the world to abolish capital punishment in the first World Day Against the Death Penalty. Sixty cities around

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  • Mutual Aid

    John from the UK is planning to go from Hawaii to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, South Africa, Europe, the UK, the US, and Hawaii plus any points in between,

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  • Learning Spanish in Ecuador

    I am in New York and I opened Adelante Spanish School (http://spanishamerica.com) with my Partner, Monica Guerra, who manages day-to-day affairs in Quito. For free help in planning a Ecuador

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  • One Off Ivory Sale

    The United Nations agreed last month to allow Botswana to have a one off sale of approximately 20,000 kilogrammes of ivory from elephant tusks, expected to be stockpiled by 2004.

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  • So You Think You.re Well Travelled?

    Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on airport codes. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! Which cities are served by airports with the following codes:

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  • Storm Chasing

    Believe it or not, storm chasing has become something of a hobby. So when the weather is bad, throw away that jigsaw, that book, that piece of embroidery or the

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  • Orang-utans Found

    Orang-utans, like gorillas and chimpanzees, are often described as the closest relatives of humans. They are in grave danger of extinction, because their habitat is under threat from illegal logging,

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  • Sunrise and a ray of hope by Andy Brouwer

    It was 8.30am and I was waiting for Rosanna White in the early morning sunshine, sheltered in the shade of a palm tree in front of the Independence Monument. Rosanna

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  • Tourism Based Economies Will Suffer

    Tourism revenues are a major and important earner for many countries in South East Asia. Consider, then, the effect of government travel warnings. We have already seen the deserted beaches

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  • San Ramón in Costa Rica by Helene

    Costa Rica, a tiny country that forms part of the land bridge between North and South America, is almost too good to believe. It has more species of mammals and

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