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1. Bangladesh: Dhaka
2. Guyana: Georgetown
3. Oman: Muscat
4. Syria: Damascas
5. Vietnam: Hanoi

• 0 out of 5 – you need to get out more!
• 1-3 – not bad
• 4 – very good! You are a Globetrotter!
• 5 – are you sure you didn’t sneak a look?

Win a Frommer’s guidebook on the USA 2003. See "http://www.frommers.com/">www.frommers.com for info on Frommer’s
guidebooks.

The winner of last month’s Frommer’s guide to Los Angeles is
Nancy Haggarty.

Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try href="http://www.google.com/">google.com or "http://www.ask.com/">Ask Jeeves, if you need help with the answers.

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

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:

1. Bangladesh
2. Guyana
3. Oman
4. Syria
5. Vietnam

For the answers, see at the end of the e-newsletter.

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 the
Website: Mutual Aid

Need to convert currency?

Take a look at The
Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates for 164
currencies The
Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and print a currency
converter table for your next trip.

State-owned Air Malta has announced that it will operate low cost
flights between Malta and London for USD$53 one way from March 2004.

Qantas will start a low cost carrier called owned JetStar in
May 2004 to compete against Richard Branson’s Virgin Blue started in
September 2000.

Good news for air travellers: Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific was
granted rights to operate on the transatlantic route between Heathrow and New
York, currently dominated by four US and UK carriers. At the same time,
Virgin Atlantic has won the right to take on BA and Qantas on services
to Australia. Both of these things should result in more competitive
process for Globetrotters.

US Regional air carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines has unveiled
'Independence Air' as the name for the new low-fare airline it plans to
start in the first half of 2004 at Washington Dulles Airport.

Singapore Airlines has confirmed that it is now carrying air marshals
on some of its flights as part of increased security measures.

We are a semi-retired couple in our late 50’s from Adelaide, South
Australia who will be visiting UK from May 21st 2004 – sometime in August
2004. We are experienced campervan grey nomads, looking to swap
campervans either simultaneously or if you wish to travel to OZ at some other
time, we could work out some other dates.

Our van is a 1990 Toyota Hi -Ace, LWB, Hi-top. We can help with any
extra camping equipment needed. Our vehicle is in excellent condition as
our hobby is vintage cars, particularly Austin 7’s which we restore.

We only wish to travel in U.K., not take a van on to Europe.

Looking forward to hearing from any UK adventurers with a campervan of
similar size to ours. Contact Nadia & Arthur, "mailto:nadiak@picknowl.com.au">nadiak@picknowl.com.au

The Globetrotters Club has been approached by the BBC about a programme they
are working on about young gap year travellers. They are looking for UK
based people aged 18-25 who’s either already out on their travels around
the world or about to go out to potentially go out and film for a week in
January. If you’d like more information, contact Karina on "mailto:karina.griffin@bbc.co.uk">karina.griffin@bbc.co.uk

Mac spotted a website "http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com">www.walkabouttravelgear.com that has a
lot of good travel tips. He says: they include using empty gatoraide
bottles for water instead of water bottles as the gatorade bottles are more
leak proof. Another suggestion was to put duct tape around a pencil to
carry duct tape that way and use less space. Someone suggested for both
men and women to wear silk pantyhose (maybe they did not have to be silk) for
warmth. Someone suggested silk clothes for warmth. Another
person suggested taking vitamin B pills or chewing garlic pills to ward off
mosquitoes bites. They don’t like the smell. Don’t use
perfumes on your hair etc to avoid mosquitoes. Someone suggested an all
purpose gel (for washing etc)