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Did You Know…World Heritage Listed Sites for the US
Arizona: Grand Canyon Nat Park, California: Redwood Nat Park, Yosemite Colorado: Anasazi Indian dwellings at Mesa Verde Florida: The Everglades Nat Park Kentucky: Mammoth Nat Park Missouri: Cahokia Mounds ~ pre Colombian civilisation ruins North Carolina and Tennessee: Great Smoky Mountains Nat Park New Mexico: remains of the Chaco culture (1020 to 1110), Carlsbad Caverns…
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Best Beach in the World
Best beach in the world (3) is Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman. Situated (strangely enough) in the west part of the island, about a 15 minute drive from the capital, George Town. Driving is British style, in other words on the left, and it is preferable to hire a car as the local minibus…
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Help Needed in California and Australia!
We have some people in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento in the US and also in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia who are interested in starting a branch of the Globetrotters Club. But we need some help! Please contact our Branch Liaison Officer via our Website at Meeting FAQ
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Not to be Seen Dead In?
This year, the US State department suggests that the following destinations really aren’t such clever places to visit right now: the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Haiti, Congo, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
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Coffee Corner… Vienna
The Beetle can report back on the Palm House in the Burggaten, the historic heart of Vienna. It is perfect for coffee and cake or brunch ~ whatever ~ good service, good food and you can loiter and gossip with friends or just sit and read the papers. Want to tell us about your favourite…
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Stop Press: £1,000 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 submitted independent travel plan. Interested? Then see our legacy page on our Website, where you can apply with your plans for a totally independent travel…
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Fave Websites of the Month
Bootsnall.com is an excellent website allowing access to a free travel club with members in 80 countries. There’s a newsletter, a chat forum and travel articles. Nice one! For more high quality links why not visit the recently updated links section of our website, as well as a free link page we now have over…
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Travel Tips
The beetle always carries a Maglite and stores lunchtime or dinner paper serviettes in pockets as emergency paper for the bathroom. Got any travel tips for the Beetle? Then e-mail them to: Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk
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MEETING NEWS
Meeting news from our branches around the world.
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Bhutan ~ A Disappointment
Karen from L.A found Bhutan to be interesting but a tad expensive. She says she had to pay $225 a day per person to stay in substandard hotels and eat substandard food. Although she feels it was not worth the money, she is glad that she did it.
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The travel club for independent travellers.