The Globetrotters Club

The travel club for independent travellers.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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