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Fave Travel Website
The Beetle has a real soft spot for Spain – great food, good wine, friendly people, wonderful language, easy to get around and fabulous paradores to stay in. A paradore is a government owned hotel, but don’t let that you put you off. Paradores are frequently old converted forts, castles, convents and monasteries – large…
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Train from Alice to Darwin, Australia
Tickets are on sale for the inaugural journeys on the Alice Springs to Darwin extension of the Great Southern Railway’s (GSR) line between Adelaide and Alice. The journey will take 47 hours, and is 2,979km. The date for the first departure is still to be finalised but is expected to be some time in January…
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Airline News
Qantas began flying to Rome in 1948 but is suspending services because of SARS and the threat of terrorism. Low cost UK based carrier bmibaby is to start services from Manchester to both Prague and Barcelona. Fares start from £32.49 one way US regional carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines, which operates as both United Express and…
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Currency Conversion
The Globetrotters Club has just teamed up with Oanda.com to provide people with information about currency conversions and cheat sheets. To translate currency or make a cheat sheet, visit: The Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164 currencies The Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a currency converter table for…
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Mutual Aid
Can anyone give Sue some itinerary advice about 3 weeks in Australia in July 2004 and also the Bungle Bungles? Please contact her on : sue.learoyd@btinternet.com Need help? Want a travelling buddy or advice about a place or country – want to share something with us – why not visit our Mutual Aid section of…
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Where do Britons Travel?
According to figures from the UK’s Government’s Office for National Statistics, Spain was the most popular destination for residents of the UK in 2002. British people made 12.6m visits to Spain, up 7% on 2001, compared with the 11.7m (down 2%) people who visited France – in second place. Third most visited country by the…
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What Counts As A Visit
Johan from Belgium contacted the Beetle to say that he visits The Gambia on a regular basis. He says that it is true that the bumsters have gone – because of police and army presence, but readers should be warned that inland, in The Gambia, it can be quite dirty with rubbish piled up, mostly…
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So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on airport codes. How many did you get right! Go on, have a guess! Which cities are served by airports with the following codes: PHX ATH ZNZ DPS EZE For the answers, see at the end of the e-newsletter.
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Peru – Volunteer as a teacher of English
Muir’s Tours have opportunities for their volunteer teaching programme in Peru. This is proving to be very popular with Gap Year students. Please note it is open to all ages, but preference is given to those with a TEFL certificate or similar, or valid experience. For more info, please see Muir’s Tours
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Hilton Hotels
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal told of how the Hilton Hotel chain, all 21,000 of them have a new customer system called OnQ. This records all customer details and preferences of those who have stayed with them, including movies watched, what and how much you drank from the mini bar and any…
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