Category: Sidebar
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Amateur Photo Competition
Are you passionate about photography? Taking pictures of family, friends and places you’ve been? Maybe you’ve captured a magic moment, an unusual situation or some humorous, crazy slice of life?
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Rotten Squid Gases Crew
Three crewmembers found dead on a South Korean freighter that washed ashore in Shimane Prefecture on Sunday may have died after inhaling toxic gas generated from rotten squid organs, local
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So You Think You're Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! What is the capital city of the following countries: Angola
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Cut Price Transatlantic Fares?
Plans are afoot to cut transatlantic fares to as little as £66 return. Passengers travelling to the U.S. and Canada could enjoy the type of low-cost fares that have revolutionised
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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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Virgin Atlantic P's People Off
Virgin Atlantic Airways scrapped plans to install bright-red urinals shaped like women's open lips at New York's John F Kennedy Airport, saying it had received complaints they were offensive. “Virgin
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Travel Quiz: Peru
The winner of last month's Trailblazer Guidebook on Tibet is: Gavin Fernandez congratulations, Gavin! This month, win a Rough Guide guidebook on Peru. See http://www.roughguides.com for travel info. Some people
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Sentosa Cable Car Competition
A marathon competition to see who could live for a week in a cable car that makes the 1.7-kilometre trip between Singapore and the resort island of Sentosa about 80
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Answers to: So You Think You're Well Travelled?
Answers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled? Angola = Luanda Egypt = Cairo Morocco = Rabat Uganda = Kampala Palau = Koror 0 out of 5 – you need
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Possible tax on visits to the Costa Brava
More than a million British holidaymakers heading for the Costa Brava in north eastern Spain face an increase in prices due to a tourist tax. The new tourism director-general of
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There's a Frog in My Salad
An airline passenger discovered the a frog perched on a slice of cucumber while on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Wellington in February. “Naturally there was a bit of
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Singapore Pilot Booted Out
A foreign pilot who infuriated Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew by leading a rare union revolt has been told by the government he can no longer live in Singapore
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Queen Mary 2 Criticisms
Spotted by Mac who wrote in to say: I read in yesterday’s Travel section of the Washington Post that a couple taking the Queen Mary 2 had picked out cabin
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Globetrotters 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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Increase in Membership Fees in the EU
For a while now postage costs to the EU countries have been rising and has now reached the point where they are on a par with the costs for our
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Tip of the Month
From Mac: one of the users of Internet Cafes overseas suggests that you leave a list of e mail addresses with a relative or friend in your home town that
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Being Careful: Bulgaria
From the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office: You should be aware of the risk of indiscriminate attacks by terrorists in public places, including tourist sights, throughout the world. Although there
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Fave Website
www.thetravelrag.com A great resource that has travel stories, photos, accommodation reviews, travel book reviews and commissions travel writing.
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BBC Disease Map
Spotted by our webmaster, this is a really neat idea. The BBC have put together a ‘Disease map’ that lets you click on your intended destination region and then shows
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Airline News: April 2004
Continental Airlines have announced that they plan to eliminate paper tickets by the end of 2004 in a bid to cut costs, theft and paperwork. 95 percent of its domestic