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Fave Websites of the Month
Serious and not so serious diving news : Great for recommendations on where to dive, equipment tests and news about new dive sites. www.divernet.com
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Travel Tips
Trying to travel light? Shampoo is not only good for washing hair and body, but clothes as well! Got any travel tips for the Beetle? Then e-mail them to: the
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Giant Grouper – Barrier Reef
A recent report from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia: a Swedish diver had a narrow escape after a giant grouper attempted to swallow his head on New Year's Eve.
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Mutual Aid
Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a place or country – want to share something with us – why not visit our Mutual Aid section of the
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Monkeys at Agra Fort, India
An alert, bought to the attention of the Beetle by Frank, in the US, about a female traveller in India who was bitten by a monkey at Agra Fort. Frank
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Pirates foiled by international co-operation!
Forget the romantic notion of Captain Hook and Cap'n Kidd – piracy is alive and well in the modern world! Just last week, coastguards in Falmouth, in the south west
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Globetrotter Travel Award
Under 24? 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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Fave Websites of the Month
Fairly self-explanatory, a suggestions form Dick, the London Meetings organiser: onlinenewspapers.com A great way of catching up after months of being away from TV, radio and newspapers!
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Travel Tips
When the Beetle wants to say thank you and money is not appropriate, she gives postcards from her hometown, London, to people as small gifts. Take some with you! Got
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Mutual Aid
Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a place or country – want to share something with us – why not visit our Mutual Aid section of the
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Strange but True!
Both the Paris and Hong Kong metro systems regularly use air freshener. Apparently studies reveal that if the system smells good, customers feel more positive about the travelling experience. London
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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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Did you know…the London Eye
The London Eye will, on average, turn continuously 6,000 times each year, and the 32 capsules carry up to 15,000 visitors a day.
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London tube facts: the Northern Line, London:
Believe it or not, the Northern Line (AKA the Misery Line) is allegedly now the Tube’s top performing line! Formed in the mid 1920s and renamed the Northern Line in
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Camera Planet
Gabrielle wants to hear from you! She is a Producer for an American website/independent TV company called CameraPlanet.com CameraPlanet takes viewer video (amateur video from all over the world), edits
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Coffee, drink, dinner … Tallinn:
Maiasmokk is the most charming restaurant with a café overlooking the street on the ground floor where you can sip coffee or have drinks and watch the world go by.
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Fancy that! Australia
In about 200 AD a famous Greek astronomer named Claudius Ptolemy believed that the earth had to be balanced or it would topple over. He figured that there had to