The capitals are:
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 Moon’s Guidebook on the Four Corners is: Paul Roberts. Congratulations!
This month, win a Rough Guide on Peru. See www.roughguides.com for info.
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.
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:
I want to thank all the members who helped me in my research for a novel I was writing set on the liner Queen Elizabeth in the 1960s. ‘ Cherry Ice’ has recently been published by Penguin and it carries the following message in the Acknowledgements: - ‘Thanks are also due to the worldwide membership of the Globetrotters Club - very helpful via the Web in my search for the precise amount of the British Sterling travel allowance circa 1964, when no amount of studious research could provide me with a definitive answer. Not even Her Majesty’s Treasury nor Customs and Excise could provide the solution - in fact the latter came up with five different possibilities in a hilarious letter I shall always keep to make me smile in times of angst.’ - from Jill Laurimore
A new bridge over the River Tarn in France’s Massif Central mountains has just been finished. The bridge which completes a new motorway link that connects Paris and the Mediterranean is 2.5km (1.5 miles) long and 270m (885ft) high. Cars will be allowed to use the bridge by the end of 2004.
Moscow’s Vnukovo airport has launched a new international terminal as part of a $1.3 billion modernization plan.� Anyone who has passed through Vnukovo airport will agree that it is pretty shabby. “Unfortunately when you visit Moscow’s airports…you feel only ashamed when you see such conditions, all these buildings and the atmosphere,” Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said at an opening ceremony marked with a 15-minute jet fighter air show.� The three-story terminal, with modern-looking check-in facilities, electronic arrival boards, cafes and newspaper stands, stretches 25,000 square meters and can handle up to 10 million passengers a year.
From a newspaper article spotted by Frank in the US.� Workers at San Francisco’s Department of Animal Care and Control located the owner of a newly arrived stray cat they couldn’t believe what they found: the cat belonged to a woman in Bradenton, Fla. - 3,000 miles away.� Florida resident Pamela Edwards had adopted the black, short-haired cat in the summer of 1997, naming it Cheyenne. Just a few months later, Cheyenne disappeared. Edwards hung flyers and ran ads in the local paper to try to locate the cat, but had no luck.
Cheyenne was dropped off at Animal Care and Control after someone found her wandering down a San Francisco street.� After scanning her for a microchip and finding she had been lost in Florida seven years ago, they wondered if it was a joke.� Animal Care and Control is trying to find a way to return Cheyenne, who is now 10 years old, to Edwards.� The agency can’t afford to ship her to Florida, so workers there have been searching for a traveller to carry her on a plane trip.
Need to convert currency?
Take a look at
Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive.
Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines. Our seat cushions can be used for flotation and, in the event of an emergency water landing, please paddle to shore and take them with our compliments, as you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses.
The Globetrotters eNewsletter