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Yes, you can now renew your membership or join the Globetrotters
Club on-line.

It is secure and you can pay by credit card in US $. Membership
costs are as follows:

1 year $29

2 years $54

3 years $75

As a member, you will be a part of the oldest travel network in
existence and have the opportunity to make new friends who share
your interest in travel. Once you are a member, you will receive
our annual membership that lists all Globetrotter members around
the world. You can contact fellow Globies and even stay with some
of them or offer to put fellow Globetrotters from around the world
up yourself!

Forget the romantic notion of Captain Hook and Cap'n Kidd -
piracy is alive and well in the modern world!

Just last week, coastguards in Falmouth, in the south west of
England picked up an SOS call almost 4,000 miles away from the
Princess Sarah, a Greek owned ship off the Horn of Africa. The
British alerted the French army based in Djibouti and Somalia who
had a warship in the area. The French ship, Floreal, sent a
helicopter to assist the Princess Sarah and scared the pirates off.

Incredibly, this is the second time that the Princess Sarah has
been helped by the same coastguards, only a month earlier whilst
off the coast of Somalia.

On a more positive note, contrary to popular belief, US citizens
are allowed to visit Libya! This is good news as the Beetle is
trying to persuade one to join her on a potential trip to Libya!

And on the flip side, just two days after the US government eased
its warnings to US citizens not to travel to Pakistan, following
the abduction of a US Wall Street journalist, the warnings are back
in place.

This wonderful snippet about travelling in Iran came from Kevin,
near London (not Croydon!) Kevin tells us about the effect some of
the girls he was travelling with had on a hapless Iranian driver.

After leaving the “Hotel Fleapit” in Neriz we were on the
road to Bam, when we unfortunately broke down. While Percy, a
mechanically gifted Canadian, set about fixing our truck the rest
of us put the kettle on and watched the world go by. Some of the
girls decided to mark out a hopscotch pitch on the roadside, and
started to play, dressed from head to toe in their black chadours,
which was quite an exhibition. As they played we sat transfixed as
a Pykan (Iranian Renault 12) came round the corner, the driver
clearly not used to seeing a bunch of girls hopping at the
roadside, drove straight into the ditch.

Perfume comes from the Latin per fumus (through smoke). The smoke
of incense, burning woods and spices were the most ancient scents.

Some useless facts courtesy of "http://www.directcosmetics.com">directcosmetics.com

When Cleopatra headed down the river to meet Mark Anthony, her
ships we perfumed so that he could smell her coming.

At the court of Louis XV, etiquette decreed that a different
perfume be worn every single day.

Rumour has it that en route to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette
trailed drops of her favourite Houbigant perfume along the way.

Read any or have any useless facts you'd like the Beetle to
publish? Then e-mail them to the Beetle

Ever wondered what scorpions taste like? Or cobra stew? Look no
further. You can now try such delicacies at Empire, a new London
restaurant where snake, kangaroo, zebra, ants and other miscellany
can be found on the menu. Address: 38 Lambs Conduit Street, nearest
tube, Holborn, tel: 020 7404 6835.

Want to tell us about your favourite coffee corner or watering
hole? Then contact the Beetle

If any Globetrotters member would like to start a branch, whether
it is in Aberdeen or Zanzibar, please see our FAQ or contact Stuart
Malcolm, the Branch Liaison Officer via our Website at "http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/meetings/meet_faq.html">Meeting
FAQ

Marine archaeologists in India believe they have found a sunken
'lost city' which pre-dates all previous signs of
civilisation by 5,000 years. The site lies at a depth of 36m, 40
miles off the coast of Gujarat, in an area known for dangerous
currents and rip tides. Most of the investigative work has been
carried out using sonar scanning equipment which reveals the buried
structure. Divers have retrieved a number of artefacts which have
been carbon dated to 7,500BC. If these dates are correct, the city
will predate the earliest known urban civilisation by 2,000 years.
The discovery has been greeted with scepticism by many experts as
carbon-dating is not regarded as completely reliable.

Source: "http://www.divernet.com/news/index.html">www.divernet.com

Under 24? A member of Globetrotters Club? Interested in a
£1,000 travel award?

Know someone who is? We have £1,000 to award each year for
five years for the best submitted independent travel plan.
Interested?

Then see our
legacy page on our Website, where you can apply with your plans
for a totally independent travel trip and we'll take a look at
it. Get those plans in!!