The latest Travellerspoint.com newsletter is available at http://www.travellerspoint.com/signup.cfm From the BBC and the strange story of the mysterious 1958 Welsh world hitchhiker – http://www.bbc.co.uk And a reply from http://www.dailypost.co.uk Again from the BBC re the perils of expeditions to less exposed destinations – http://news.bbc.co.uk

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