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So You Think You’re Well Travelled?

June 27, 2003

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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British Airways E-Mail Hoax

June 27, 2003

You may have received an e-mail saying that British Airways is giving away free plane tickets to anywhere in the world to anyone who forwards the e-mail to 10 or

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UK TV Show Needs Volunteers

June 27, 2003

Would you like to take part in a documentary we are currently making for Channel 4? It is provisionally titled Travellers Tales, and is about travellers who have experienced tropical

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Have you got a tale to tell?

June 27, 2003

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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Budget Airline Easyjet Gets Into Trouble

June 27, 2003

Budget airline EasyJet has been told by a UK advertising watchdog to make the true cost of its flights clearer in its adverts. The carrier must include potential taxes and

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Eco-tax on Balearics set to be abolished

June 27, 2003

Visitor figures to the Balearic Islands have slumped because of a controversial eco-tax introduced just a year ago. The tax, (around £12 million raised so far) paid by tourists to

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London Tube Tales

June 27, 2003

“Ladies and Gentlemen do you want the good news first or the bad news? “The good news is that last Friday was my birthday and I hit the town and

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Mac Tells US About Round the World Walker

June 27, 2003

U. S. Soldiers Home, Mac: I am a compulsive reader and pick up any newspaper, any printed matter I see laying around and start reading. This is from January 14,

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Tahir Shah’s Film on C5, UK TV

June 27, 2003

If you live in the UK, and have access to Channel 5, then switch on, tune on to Search for the lost city of Gold, Channel 5, 9pm Weds 9th

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Travel Quiz

June 27, 2003

Win a Moon guidebook on Yellowstone and Grand Teton. See www.moon.com for info on Moon guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try

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Physiotherapy – Matt Maddocks

June 27, 2003

Matt is a volunteer at the Old Boma, Mikindani, Southern Tanzania. During a visit last year to Mikindani, I was informed of a physiotherapist working in Nyanguo mission hospital and

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Solomon Islands

June 27, 2003

The Australian and New Zealand governments have both said they will commit to sending army and police forces to nearby troubled Solomon Islands. The on-going ethnic violence has resulted in

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Place Names

June 27, 2003

Same names: how many place names have you come across that are the same, but different countries? There’s Paris Texas and Paris France. Other place names include Versailles in Kentucky

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Balearics to Mainland Spain

June 27, 2003

Anyone planning to visit Mallorca and Ibiza can now pop over to the Spanish mainland on a new high-speed ferry service. The catamaran service can carry up to 900 passengers

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Mac.s Jottings: Border Crossings

May 27, 2003

U. S. Soldiers Home, Washington: during a century of travel (well 78 years!) both in and out of service I have travelled to over 150 countries (I count both North

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Peru – Volunteer as a teacher of English

May 27, 2003

Muir’s Tours have opportunities for their volunteer teaching programme in Peru. This is proving to be very popular with Gap Year students. Please note it is open to all ages,

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A visit to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens by Geoff Fairman

May 27, 2003

Cape Town has many beautiful places to visit and the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden is one of them. It is situated on the mountainside near Constantia and covers many hectares of

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Hilton Hotels

May 27, 2003

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal told of how the Hilton Hotel chain, all 21,000 of them have a new customer system called OnQ. This records all customer

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Sri Lanka Floods

May 27, 2003

Be careful if you are planing to take a trip to Sri Lanka. Up to 400 people in Sri Lanka are feared dead or missing after floods have swept through

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Italy Screens for SARS

May 27, 2003

Italy is to be the first EU country to introduce mandatory screening of passengers arriving from countries affected by the SARS virus and including passengers who have first made stops

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