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 Moon Guide on the
ArcadiaNational Park is Traechsel, congratulations! And the
winner of our Peru quiz was Jane Thomas, again, well done!
This month, win a Moon guidebook on Western Canada. See
info on this excellent series.
Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do
some research: try
"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.
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 to convert currency?
Take a look at
"http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/converter.html">The
Globetrotters Currency Converter — get the
exchange rates for 164 currencies
"http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/trav_cheatsheet.html">The
Globetrotters Currency Cheat Sheet — create and
print a currency converter table for your next trip.
On landing, the Stewardess said, “Please be sure to
take all of your belongings. If you're going to leave
anything, please make sure it's something we'd
like to have.”.
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are
only 4 ways out of this airplane”.
”Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We
hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed
taking you for a ride.”.
Air passengers flying to the US may have to board their
planes an hour before take-off to allow for more rigorous
security checks. US Homeland Security undersecretary
Asa Hutchinson said the current practice of airlines
giving the names of passengers to US officials 15 minutes
after take-off did not make sense. Officials want
the information earlier so they can check travellers'
details against those of suspects on their security watch
lists before the plane is in the air, he said.
The airline industry responded by saying any proposals
needed careful discussion, adding that they could cause
problems with connecting flights and increase the number
of passengers who book seats on flights and then fail to
show up.
Under a deal signed in May 2004, the United States is able
to access personal information on every passenger flying
from the 25 European Union countries, and since October
2004 most visitors to the United States have needed scans
of their faces and fingers taken under its new US-VISIT
program.
You got used to catching the Eurostar from London Waterloo
to Paris or Brussels? Well, in 2007, all cross
channel trains will no longer use Waterloo station, which
was opened in 1993 at a cost of £130 million.
(Note, Waterloo was the scene of one of France’s
greatest military defeats in 1825!) Instead the
Eurostar will start from St. Pancras station in north
London and a depot near Stratford, east London, that has
yet to be built. The decision was made because
Eurostar believes the cost of running two London bases
would be too much.
If you are interested in forest conservation, then take a
look at this:
"http://forests.org/">http://forests.org/
This website provides news from around the world on issues
in countries about the protection of forests to volunteer
positions.
Also, spotted by Padmassana:
"http://www.christopherrogers.co.uk/">Christopher
Rogers
He does some fabulous pictures of London, showing all the
buildings, they come with a “Key” so you can
pick places, buildings etc out.
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