Category: archive
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Global Warming Caused by Air Flights
The UK Government think-tank Commission for Integrated Transport is currently considering a plan to impose a congestion charge on flights. It warns that the number of flights is growing by…
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Lisbon: Teaching English and Joining Women’s Groups by Sally Pethybridge, Portugal
Sally is British and has lived in the UK all her life. International travel as part of her work took her to many countries, including Portugal. She fell in love…
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Mac’s Travel Tips, USA
Mac has been reading and researching again! The following travel tips are a culmination of his recent reading. Luggage tags: these can easily be lost. One potential solution is to…
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Warning: Lastminute.com by Trevor, UK
Trevor from the UK writes to tell us of his experience booking flights through the internet based travel company lastminute.com. He says: Be very careful before booking flights through lastminute.com.…
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Travels from Dar-es-Salaam by Becky Stickland
Becky is a volunteer worker for Trade Aid and is working in Mikindani, Southern Tanzania. This story is a true account of how she experienced a narrow escape and could…
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Amina Lawal: Court Quashes Death Sentence
The Globetrotters e-newsletter has been following the case of Amina Lawal, the Nigerian woman who was convicted and sentenced to death by stoning in March 2002 after giving birth to…
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Your responses on Burma
A big thank you for all your comments and thoughts sent to the Beetle. We had two votes for visiting Burma and one against visiting. What do you think? London…
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Thin Girl with a Headscarf by Richard Mowell
Richard Mowll is a civil engineer from Croydon, who travelled to Western Uzbekistan in January 2002 with MSF to rehabilitate a 600 patient TB dispensary. He then went on to…