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    10 Dumbest Questions Asked by Cruise Passengers

    Spotted by our webmaster: 1. Does the crew sleep onboard? 2. What time is the midnight buffet? 3. Which elevator takes me to the front of the ship? 4. Do you generate your own electricity? 5. Is this island totally surrounded by water? 6. Is the water in the toilet salt or fresh? 7. What…

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    Travel Jokes

    After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a Flight Attendant on a Northwest flight announced “Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted.”. From a Southwest Airlines employee: “Welcome aboard Southwest Flight 245 to Tampa. To operate your seat belt, insert…

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    Bike Kenya 2004 by Bill Polley

    Bill wrote in to tell us about his sponsored bike ride in aid of the Douglas Bader Foundation late January, early February this year. How did it start? It began with a mad idea to cycle somewhere warm in the middle of our cold winter, experience two summers in one year and lose some weight.…

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  • The Beetle

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    S Korea Train

    South Korea has just launched its new bullet train service which travels at 300 kph (185 mph. The Korea Train Express will nearly halve the near five-hour trip, by conventional train, from Seoul to Korea’s second biggest city, Busan, in the southeast. A spur line connects the city of Mokpo in the southwest. After years…

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  • The Beetle

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    So You Think You.re Well Travelled?

    Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a guess! What is the capital city of the following countries: Botswana Gabon Armenia Turkey Norway For the answers, see at the end of the e-newsletter.

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  • The Beetle

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    Birdwatching in the Philippines by Christina

    On how my first birdwatching trip to Candaba, Pampanga Province, Philippines made my enthusiasm for conservation take flight. Trudging stealthily on a marshland trail, struggling to keep alert despite it being 5:30 in the morning. With binoculars slung over my neck and a species list on hand, I tried to make as little noise as…

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  • The Beetle

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    Train from Vienna Airport to the Centre

    It is now possible to take a train from Vienna airport to Wien-Mitte train station. The journey takes 16 minutes and runs every thirty minutes. Single tickets cost 8 euros and return tickets cost 15 euros. This makes life a lot easier to get to and from the airport. You can also buy a ticket…

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    Have you got a tale to tell?

    If you have a travellers tale that your aching to tell. Then why not visit the “Travel Sized Bites” section of the Website and share it with the world. Travel Sized Bites

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  • The Beetle

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    Sicily: Palermo, Part 1 by David Cross

    All long-distance buses seem to have termini fairly near the Central Station [trains]. Outside this there is a massive square where most local buses start and from the other side there are roads into the centre, of which the Via Roma is the widest. The place where I stayed is just to the left of…

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    JFK Baggage Handlers Busted

    Police have busted a gang who used their jobs as baggage handlers at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport to avoid inspection of mail bags filled with cocaine and transported on commercial planes from South America. Police officers officials announced that detectives arrested 13 people and seized USD$400,000, five vehicles, three guns and 110 pounds…

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