Tag: December 2002
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Meeting News from Texas
Festive food and fellowship was shared at the December Texas branch meeting. The scheduled slide show of Portugal was postponed to the January meeting. In addition to the slide show…
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Hogmanay in Edinburgh
Edinburgh is making big efforts to entertain shoppers in the weeks before Christmas. It also plans to lay on what it claims to be the world's biggest Hogmanay party to…
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Fave Websites of the Month
The Beetle likes cityguide.travel-guides.com Here you can select from a number of cities around the world and compile your own guide, for free. There is a very diverse set of…
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London Markets: Whitechapel
Whitechapel is considered by some to be the heart of the East End of London and over the centuries has hosted Jewish settlers, Irish dock workers and Bangladeshi workers in…
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Fly Me To The Moon!
A space team in Canada is looking for three people to help pilot a rocket into space. This is part of a competition modeled on the 1927 contest to fly…
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Space Tourism Lifts Off
Recent press reports state that a Houston store for space buffs is helping the Russian Space Agency find potential space tourists who have $20 million to spare. This seems to…
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Return To Firenze by Matthew
Wandering amongst Pisa’s famed sights, I found myself eased culturally back into Italy and following the big, rounded taste of the evenings Rosso Di Montepulciano I felt readied (or should…
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Accessing Office Mail When Away
source: Woody’s Travellers Watch Travel@woodyswatch.com It's great to see more and more business travellers using 'Outlook Web Access' (OWA) on the road. This is a webmail way to access corporate…
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Did You Know&.London England, London Ontario
London, England, United Kingdom and London, Ontario, Canada, as the crow flies: 3662 miles (5893 km) or 3182 nautical miles Expedia.com’s lowest return fare flying from London, England to London…
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Kruger National Park by Geoff
Everyone has heard of the Kruger National Park. It's the biggest game reserve in South Africa. Its border stretches from the Limpopo River in the north to the Crocodile river…
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Being Careful – Advice
France: thieves may target cars with foreign number plates. Conceal bags and purses when driving and never leave valuables in a vehicle, even for a short time or when you…
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Airline News
Brussels-based low fare carrier Virgin Express has over the last six months, carried more passengers than any other airline at Brussels Airport, making it the first main airport in Europe…
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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…