The Globetrotters Club

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  • Greg McKenzie's Motorbike Travels On Ruta 40 in Argentina

    Trip duration: 56 days Trip miles to date: 5,632 Miles since last update: 472 Having completed over 5,600 miles in the previous 5 weeks, these past two weeks have been

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  • F-16 Cause Reindeer to Collapse

    The Danish Air Force admitted last month that it paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared

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  • Tibet Railway To Open

    China has announced the completion of the first railway line from Golmud in China's north-western province of Qinghai to Lhasa, in Tibet. The line is expected to start taking passengers

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  • Mac's Travel Reminiscences

    We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences. Scotland. Inch is

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  • Record Numbers of travellers

    At September's World Tourism Day, the the United Nations Today said that more and more people can afford to travel. In 1950 it was 20 million, last year 760 million,

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  • New Corruption Index

    Transparency International recently published its new index on the world's most countries. At the top of the list, i.e. the least corrupt country is Iceland, followed by Finland and New

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  • Our Friends Ryanair

    Ryanair has defended its policy on disabled passengers after it was criticised for ejecting nine blind and partially sighted passengers from one of its flights. The passengers, all from the

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  • Airline of the Year 2005

    Skytrax have conducted the world's “largest” passenger survey, was conducted over an 11 month period (June 2004 – May 2005) to find the world's Airline of the Year. The results

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  • Want to Fly Into Space?

    Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has collected $10m in deposits from people wanting a quick journey beyond Earth's atmosphere. More than 34,000 would-be astronauts have registered for rides aboard a

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  • London Palaces: Hampton Court

    The Hampton Court Estate dates back to before the 15th Century. The estate was originally formed by merging of the manors of Hampton Richard and Hampton Mappenor. It was granted

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  • No Kissing at Indian Wedding

    An Israeli couple were fined 500 Indian rupees ($11) each for embracing and kissing after getting married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in the northwestern Indian town Pushkar. The Israeli

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  • Crocodile Attacks in N Australia

    About a dozen people have been killed by salt-water crocodiles in Australia in the past 20 years. Now divers in northern Australia are calling for development of crocodile warning devices

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  • The World's Largest Islands

    The World’s Largest Islands Rank Island (location) Area in mi² Area in km² 1. Greenland 822,700 2,130,800 2. Papua (New Guinea) (Papua New Guinea-Indonesia) 309,000 800,000 3. Borneo (Indonesia-Malaysia-Brunei) 283,400

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  • Know Your Riyals from Your Kwatcha

    Need to convert currency? Take a look at The Globetrotters Currency Converter – get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet – create and print a

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  • Non-stop Bangkok flight

    Thai Airways, Thailand's national carrier, has announced that it will fly non stop from Bangkok to Los Angeles as of Dec. 1. The flight used to stop in Osaka, Japan

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  • Globetrotters Travel Award

    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 submitted independent

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  • Great White Journey

    A tagged great white shark (called Nicole, by researchers – after shark loving actress Nicole Kidman) crossed the Indian Ocean from South Africa to Australia and back again in just

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  • Satellite Photo

    Spotted by Webmaster Paul, here’s a satellite photo from Google of the Tower of London

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  • Iranian Hairstyle Row

    A recent ruling by Iran’s football federation banning players from sporting “unusual” and “foreign” styles is sparking debate in Iran’s football community. The Federation also said professional players should refrain

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  • Casinos in Singapore

    Singapore has just lifted a 40 year ban on gambling to build two new casinos. One of these has caused public complaints as it is to displace Singapore’s only horse

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