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Personal Traveler Offer
David Showalter, Personal Traveler’s President’s, has kindly offered E-Newsletter readers a great discount on his new travel course, “The Best European Vacation of Your Life.”. This course was writen, based upon David’s personal experience traveling through Eastern Europe. The finsihed product is an affordable, highly informative Audio CD course on how/why/when etc to travel through…
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London:
This report of the last London meeting on the 1st December is written by Padmassana. John Hornbuckle’s wonderful slides took us around Chile. He showed us the wildlife and landscape of the country. Though John began with a slide of an owl, this was a topical Harry Potter joke, he went on to show us…
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Did you know…the London Eye
The London Eye will, on average, turn continuously 6,000 times each year, and the 32 capsules carry up to 15,000 visitors a day.
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Ontario:
The next meeting will be on January 18th at the the Woodsworth Co-op : Ann Dohler will talk about her recent trip to Peru, the Galapagos and the Amazon. For further information on Ontario meetings, please contact: Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259. Toronto GT Meetings are held…
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Camera Planet
Gabrielle wants to hear from you! She is a Producer for an American website/independent TV company called CameraPlanet.com CameraPlanet takes viewer video (amateur video from all over the world), edits the tape into short pieces (four minutes) and posts the stories online for viewer enjoyment. The videos follow certain themes that correspond with channels. Gabrielle…
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Japan by the Wandering Weasel from London:
In general travel and accommodation are expensive whilst food can vary hugely in price from noodle bars both cheaper and considerably more nutritious than MacDonald’s to city restaurant where the prices would flex anyone’s credit to the limit. Most other activities are pretty reasonably priced. Firstly, Japan is a country where the infrastructure works, if…
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Coffee, drink, dinner … Tallinn:
Maiasmokk is the most charming restaurant with a café overlooking the street on the ground floor where you can sip coffee or have drinks and watch the world go by. It’s tucked behind the main square but is easy to find. The best dinner the Beetle had whilst in Tallinn – and the competition was…
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Hooray for Harry Potter – surviving the cold in Andalusia by Gill from London:
Early November. I need WARMTH and SUN. Flights to Malaga are cheap, temperature check on the web – 22-23°C, comfortable for walking. SO I decided on Andalusia. No, I don’t speak Spanish but I am happy to travel alone and try and chat to people as I go along. On arrival at Malaga it was…
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Fancy that! Australia
In about 200 AD a famous Greek astronomer named Claudius Ptolemy believed that the earth had to be balanced or it would topple over. He figured that there had to be a land yet unknown to Europeans somewhere below the Indian Ocean. Over time this yet to be discovered land came to be known as…
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London tube facts: the Northern Line, London:
Believe it or not, the Northern Line (AKA the Misery Line) is allegedly now the Tube’s top performing line! Formed in the mid 1920s and renamed the Northern Line in 1937 – that’s the black one that runs north-south. There are 36 stations on this line and has one of the world’s longest tunnels at…
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