Category: newsletter
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Globetrotters Travel Award
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…
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Steve Cheetham Visits Northern Chile
This is the first in a series of trip reports sent to the Beetle by Globetrotter Steve who is travelling around South America and Easter Island, the lucky chap! So,…
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Taj Mahal to open at Night
The World Heritage Taj Mahal, built in the 1600's by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a shrine for his wife, is to open on moonlit evenings for the first…
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Country Statistics: assaults per capita
Mike from the US wrote in to the Beetle to say that our e-newsletter is always welcome and interesting, but that our recent “Country Statistics – Crime: Assaults Top 10…
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Fave Websites
Recommended by Globetrotter Steve, a great web site that helps travellers with how to pack, pre trip preparations, where to go, pictures, recommended guide books – all sorts, a great…
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Answer to Flag Quiz
How did you do in our Flag Quiz Austria Bangladesh Chile Egypt Haiti
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Plague of Locusts
Experts estimate that 100 million locusts swarmed over the Canary Islands in November. The locusts, nicknamed 'sky prawns' have invaded Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, the worst incidence in over 50 years.…
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Our Friends Ryanair
Not sure what to buy your loved ones next Christmas? Why not buy a Ryanair cartoon? This one, see: shows a picture of a man booking a budget flight. The…
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Yahoo! And AOL Travel Searches
Travel industry researchers estimate that demand for independently booked travel is set to rise by 80% in the next five years. Both Yahoo! and AOL recently announced that they were…
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The Tsunami
Everyone at the Globetrotters Club would like to pass their condolences and sympathies to all those affected by the tsunami on Boxing Day. If you are thinking of going to…