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Santiniketan, West Bengal, India by Arjun Mukherjee
Santiniketan is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, and approximately 180 kilometres north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It was made famous by Nobel…
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World's Largest Subway Systems (by rider ship)
World’s Largest Subway Systems (by rider ship) City Date system completed Number of riders (year) Length (km) Moscow 1935 3.2 bil (1997) 340 Tokyo 1927 2.6 bil (1997/98) 281+ Seoul…
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Volunteer Corner
The South American Explorers Club are looking for new volunteers and interns in their Buenos Aires Clubhouse as they are expanding the services they offer. There are many exciting volunteer…
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Mac's Travel Reminiscences
Mac has not been very well but is still e-mailing strong. Here is an account by Paul Haring, a US journalist writing about Mac’s exploits during WW2. The article is…
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Our Friends Ryanair
More news re Ryanair who have been told by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading(OFT) to remove their small print in their ticket info over their attempt to avoid paying…
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Meeting News from London by Padmassana
Our first speaker was Rory Maclean, “The magic bus”, Istanbul to India. Rory set out to visit the places along the classic overland route to India. Starting in Istanbul at…
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Meeting News from Ontario
For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermane@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March,…
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The Golden Triangle and Surrounds
The Beetle visited Thailand in September 2006 and had an opportunity to travel to the Golden Triangle, an area that refers to a large, predominantly highland a Laos, Burma and…
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Lights Out in a Mexican Cave by Ron McCluskey
Shortly after we arrived at our position in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, my wife and I were invited with a youth group to tour a cave near the town of Pichucalco,…