Answers to: So You Think You’re
Well Travelled?
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?
The winner of last month’s Rough
Guide to Peru is: Judith Jones – congratulations, Judith.
This month, win a Moon
guidebook on Four Corners, this includes Utah, Arizona, Coloradfo and New
Mexico. See http://www.moon.com/ for info
on these excellent guidebooks.
Some people have said the quiz
is difficult, we say do some research: try google.com or 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.
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:
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:
Aid
Need to convert currency?
Take a look at
Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the exchange rates
for 164 currencies
create and print a currency converter table for your next trip.
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 the metal tab into the buckle,
and pull tight. It works just like every other seat belt; and, if
you don’t know how to operate one, you probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised.
In the event of a sudden
loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop
screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have
a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with
theirs. If you are travelling with more
than one small child, pick your favourite.”.
Spotted by our
webmaster, the BBC has an excellent on-line travel resource. It has country
and mini guides, travel tips, basic travel advice, studying and travelling
and how to make money while you travel. Well worth a look:
New European low-cost airline WIZZ Air plan to start flights
from Budapest to seven European cities from June 24. Destinations include London,
Barcelona, Athens, Rome, Paris, Prague and Katowice from Budapest. From July
1 it would add Paris, Munich, Athens, Barcelona, Dortmund and Stockholm to
its destinations from Poland, it added.
Qantas, Australia’s biggest airline has announced that it plans to start a
new low cost Asian airline in November 2004. The new airline will be called
Jetstar, the same name as Qantas’s new low-cost domestic venture. The new
airline will be the fifth budget operator to fly to and from Singapore,
following Thai AirAsia, a joint venture between Malaysian budget carrier
AirAsia and Thailand’s Shin Corp, and Jakarta-based Lion Air, which both
already operate flights. Valuair, owned by ex-Singapore Airlines staff, has
just started flying. Tiger Airways, a budget venture between Singapore
Airlines and Irish discount airline Ryanair is expected to start operations
this year.
European travel agent Thomas Cook has said that its airline
Condor planned to offer cut-price flights on long-distance journeys. Proposed
services include flights to the US, Caribbean, Africa and Asia with prices
starting at EUR99 (USD$120).
Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, one of the
worst atrocities of the late 20th century – alongside what happened in
the Balkans. A bit of background – it was triggered by the shooting
down of a plane with Rwanda’s Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana onboard on 6
April 1994. By amazing coincidence the wreckage landed in the garden of the
presidential residence. The crash served as a signal to Hutu extremists,
supporters of the government, to start the systematic extermination of
minority ethnic Tutsis and any Hutu opponents of the regime. The former UN
commander in Rwanda said Western states were “criminally
responsible” for the genocide. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire said
France, which led the small international peacekeeping force at the time of
the genocide, the UK and the US in particular did not care enough to stop the
killing. The killing continued for 100 days before a Tutsi-dominated rebel
army seized control.
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