Category: enewsletter
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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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The World’s Richest Countries
Rank Country (GDP per capita) Luxembourg ($36,400) United States ($36,200) Bermuda ($33,000) San Marino ($32,000) Switzerland ($28,600) Aruba ($28,000) Norway ($27,700) Monaco ($27,000) Singapore ($26,500) Denmark ($25,500)
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Meeting News from London by Padmassana
1st November 2003 London meeting On November 1st, we had two very different talks this month. The first was by Amar Grover, entitled “The Hindustan Tibet road”, an old trading…
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Our Friends Ryanair
Plenty of news about our friends Ryanair. Despite their difficulties with court cases with the European Union about state aid, (whether Ryanair received unfair state subsidies at its Belgian hub…
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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…
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Largest countries in the world
Rank Country Area (square kilometers) Russia (17,075,400) Canada (9,976,140) United States (9,629,091) China (9,596,960) Brazil (8,511,965) Australia (7,686,850) India (3,287,590) Argentina (2,776,890) Kazakhstan (2,717,306) Sudan (2,505,810)