Category: archive
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Thames travel
A number of boat tours and ferries operate on the Thames. Below is a selection of the trips you can take. Catamaran Cruises offer tours with commentary, leaving from Waterloo…
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Dubai – building a new island
Dubai has never been known to do things by halves. Tourism is a huge earner for Dubai, the tiny state on the Arabian peninsular. They already have super de-luxe hotel…
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Is Anyone There?
Absolutely a true story: the pilot of an SAS plane, on a domestic flight in Sweden, called up an airport control tower for clearance to land and found no one…
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Cyprus – An Island Divided by Andy Brouwer
The majority of tourists visiting Cyprus are blissfully unaware of the pain and division that has haunted the island since 1974. To most, the image and experience of Cyprus is…
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Fave Websites of the Month
We think that all Globetrotters should go and visit the new Frommer’s Budget Travel site on MNSBC. There are some great articles, a notice board for sharing tips, posting issues…
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Letter From Lisbon Part 1 by Sally Pethybridge
Well, where do I start? I left the UK on Wednesday 24 April 2002 to start a new life in Lisbon. My furniture and other worldly possessions left the UK…
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Airline News
Air Canada and Australia's leading carrier, Qantas, will both reduce flights over the next two months to Taiwan because they say they cannot make enough money from them. Canada's new…
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Globetrotter Travel Award
Under 30? 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…
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Scottish Dinosaur Print Find:
Whilst walking her dog, a local hotelier on Staffin island, off Skye found a dinosaur footprint dating from the Jurassic period in rock on the beach. Experts say huge meat-eating…
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Large Travellers May Damage Your Health!
A passenger on a Virgin Atlantic flight has won a GBP£13,000 (USD$20,000) award after being injured by an obese woman in the next seat. Barbara Hewson, from Swansea in Wales,…
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Air News:
LAPA, the Argentinean domestic airline went belly up a while back but the name LAPA is to be revived by new owners who rescued it from receivership. It has been…
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Mt Etna Erupted
Where is Europe's largest and most active volcano? Answer: Mount Etna on Sicily. Mount Etna has had four major eruptions in the last 309 years and it has just erupted…
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Mutual Aid
Overland in Africa New Globetrotter Renate would like to make contact with others who share her interests: overlanding in Africa, archaeology, anthropology, natural history and the environment, conservation, and, others…
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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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Missing Ship
Extract from The Star (Johannesburg): “The situation is absolutely under control,” Transport Minister Ephraem Magagula told the Swaziland parliament in Mbabane. “Our nation's merchant navy is perfectly safe. We just…
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FBI Asks for Diver Info
A Beverly Hills scuba diving store has resisted a federal grand jury subpoena demanding that they identify everyone who had taken, but not finished, recreational dive classes over the last…
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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…
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Fave Websites of the Month
Kevin, our membership secretary likes this one! theangkorguide.com
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Jokes sent in by Krys
Flight Log Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints by QANTAS pilots and the corrective…
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New European Air Line Compensation Rules
Airlines in Europe will have to pay increased compensation to passengers who are stranded by cancellations or overbooking on flights if new legislation is approved. At present, passengers who are…