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The Beetle
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Mac's Travel Reminiscences
Mac has not been very well, but is still e-mailing strong. In this edition of the Globetrotter e-newsletter, Mac talks about a Japanese tea ceremony he attended whilst based in Japan shortly after WW2 and also the beginning of his five and a half year stint as a soldier in Japan in the 1950s. Nikko…
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The Beetle
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Our Friends Ryanair
A passenger jet flying for Ryanair mistakenly landed at Ballykelly Army airstrip instead of at its intended destination of City of Derry Airport, six miles away. The Liverpool-to-Londonderry flight, operated by Eirjet on behalf of the Irish LCC, landed at the wrong airport due to an “error by the Eirjet pilot who mistakenly believed he…
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The Beetle
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Being Careful: Zimbabwe
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office do not advise against all travel to Zimbabwe, but they do advise against backpacking. But this is what they have to say: there has been a general increase in the level of violent crime. There is a continuing risk of violence at political demonstrations, but main tourist areas have…
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The Beetle
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New Travel Magazine – Apply for a Free Copy
Real Travel magazine is offering all world travellers the chance to become a travel writer. Real Travel is a new magazine aimed at independent world travellers, combining honest reports for destinations around the world with unbiased kit reviews and expert advice. Issue one this includes destinations as varied as Southern Africa, Iceland, Thailand, New Zealand,…
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The Beetle
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Be on TV in the US
Tiger Aspect, one of the UK's leading TV production companies are producing a program for the Discovery Network that reveals the reality behind America's lips. We are looking for people who have stories to tell about their dodgy dental experiences abroad. Are you American? Are you a dental tourist? Have you travelled to Mexico/South America/elsewhere…
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The Beetle
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Say Cheese
Last year, a Quebec cheese company lost its sunken cheese. La Fromagerie Boivin thought it would make its cheese taste better if it was submerged in water, so it dropped 800 kg of cheese into the Saguenay fjord, north of Quebec City. The idea was that 50 metres underwater would produce a cheese that would…
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The Beetle
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Zimbabwe Life Expectancy
A new UN report details that life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world, with the average person not expected to live to 40. Zimbabwe's women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37. The World Health Organisation report said women's life expectancy…
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The Beetle
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Whale Meat for Dogs
A UK conservation group recently said that whale meat caught under Japan's “research” programme is so abundant it is being sold as pet food. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) say that thousands of tonnes of whale meat has been stockpiled as more animals are killed each year. The Japanese government has attempted to…
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The Beetle
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Bio-Beetle Eco Car Rental
There's a new car rental company started called the bio-beetle, the worlds first truly ECO rental car company in the world who power all their cars on vegetable oil biodiesel. Based in Los Angeles California and Maui, Hawaii right now and growing. Take a look at http://www.bio-beetle.com
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The Beetle
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New Easyjet Routes
Easyjet one of the UK's low cost airlines has just announced flights to three new destinations: London Luton to Rijeka starting 30th June and also to Istanbul starting 29th June plus London Gatwick to Marrakesh starting 4th July. See their website.
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