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Volunteer Corner Vacancies For Volunteer Doctors/Nurses For Hill Farmer Clinic Project, N E India
Can you spare 2 weeks + ? Would you like a workingholiday in a fantastic place? We are currently looking for volunteer medical staff forour clinic in India. Agricultural Work with PlanetDrum Foundation in Bahia de Caraquez, Manabi, Ecuador Planet Drum Foundation is a non-profit, grass rootsenvironmental organisation based in San Francisco,California, USA. Planet Drum…
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Meeting News from Ontario Friday, January 16, 2004 at Time: 8 pm SOUTH AFRICA by Thelma Briggs
Venue: – please note the change: Old York Tower, 85 The Esplanade (SouthEast corner of The Esplanade & Church) – 2 block east of the Union station. Public parking garage is at the foot of Church St. right next to the Old York Tower. For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or…
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Lisbon: On Moving to Cascais by Sally Pethybridge
Sally is British and has lived in the UK all her life. International travel as part of her work took her to many countries, including Portugal. She fell in love with the place and decided to sell her beautiful cottage in Malmsbury, Wiltshire, and relocate to Lisbon. In this article, she tells us about exploring…
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Global Warming Caused by Air Flights
The UK Government think-tank Commission for Integrated Transport is currently considering a plan to impose a congestion charge on flights. It warns that the number of flights is growing by five per cent annually from the present figure of 162 million a year. Ten years ago, planes caused 3.5 per cent of man-made greenhouse gases…
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Tourists Kidnapped in SE Iran
Three cyclists, two German, one Irish are reported missing between the city of Bam and Zahedan near the Pakistani border – a notorious opium smuggling route from Afghanistan to Western Europe. A ransom is thought to have been issued. Kidnappings there, as in the rest of the country, have been rare in recent years. A…
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Lisbon: Teaching English and Joining Women’s Groups by Sally Pethybridge, Portugal
Sally is British and has lived in the UK all her life. International travel as part of her work took her to many countries, including Portugal. She fell in love with the place and decided to sell her beautiful cottage in Malmsbury, Wiltshire, and relocate to Lisbon. In this article, she tells us of getting…
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Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will change the current two-tier price system for Vietnamese and foreigners from January 1 next year to boost tourism. Foreigners will no longer pay 20% more for domestic flights and will pay the same amount as Vietnamese nationals. A round trip ticket from capital Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh…
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Mac’s Travel Tips, USA
Mac has been reading and researching again! The following travel tips are a culmination of his recent reading. Luggage tags: these can easily be lost. One potential solution is to put your address inside your suitcase or to put some distinctive marking with a permanent marking pen on the side of the suitcase, such as…
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No Hunting Please – We’re Lions
A recent report from Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit says that fewer than 20,000 lions may now survive in the whole of Africa, although they do not face immediate extinction. The greatest threats to the species are sport hunting and conflict with farmers over livestock. The estimate of 20,000 lions or fewer compares with…
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Warning: Lastminute.com by Trevor, UK
Trevor from the UK writes to tell us of his experience booking flights through the internet based travel company lastminute.com. He says: Be very careful before booking flights through lastminute.com. I recently booked two flights a week or two in advance of travelling and elected to collect my tickets via the e-ticket mechanism. My account…
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