Category: archive
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Peru Volunteer English Teachers Needed
Muir’s Tours recently launched their volunteer teaching programme in Peru and it is proving to be very popular with Gap Year students. They have now set up another teaching facility
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Indonesia in Brief by Teddy
Indonesia is the largest archipelago and the fifth most populous country in the world. Consisting of five main islands and 30 smaller archipelagos, it has a total of 13.677 of
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Iris’s Diary of An Overland Trip Through South America
On the way to Buenos Aires We only did two visits during the five days it took to drive from Tierra del Fuego to Buenos Aires (BA) and so we
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Travelling Medical Hints and Tips
The Beetle received this e-mail from a Globetrotters who thought it might be useful to pass on to other travellers. If you find yourself under the weather, there is almost
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Guide Books
As a result of our discussion on guidebooks, the following people have sent in their recommendations for guidebooks not on the Beetle’s list. They are: From Globetrotters webmaster Paul, Sunflower
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New US Security Measures
The Travel Industry Association of America (TIAS) recently warned that several new security measures intended to deter terrorists from entering the United States will also quite likely put off foreign
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New UN Heritage Sites
This is the second of three descriptions of the 24 sites of “outstanding universal value”, that have been designated world heritage sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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Our Friends Ryanair
Oh dear, oh dear, the airline we love to hate, Ryanair has just got itself into trouble in Germany, for saying that it flies to Dussledorf. A court in Cologne
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Fact File: Largest Lakes in the World
OK, don’t look – can you name the five largest lakes in the world? A quick clue, one of them is a sea. Rank Name Area Sq Miles Area Sq