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Win a Copy of the Gap Year Guide Book 2010

Benedict Adam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:14:35 +0000

Gap-year.com have been specialists in providing information for those considering gap years, year outs or career breaks for 18 years. They have used all their years of experience to pack the the latest edition of the Gap Year Guide Book is packed full of [...]

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Win an SLR camera & £500 worth of photobox vouchers

Benedict Adam — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:46:52 +0000

Rough Guides have put together a new online game to tie-in with their latest publication- Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures. The online game tests your travel photography knowledge against the clock; look at the photos, guess where they are [...]

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Google City Tours

Benedict Adam — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:15:57 +0000

Google Labs is where you’ll find all the latest experimental features of the search giant. The latest lab is Google City Tours and looks like it may turn out be a handy travel planning resource. Google explains that the city tours [...]

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Competition: Win a round the world trip for two…

Benedict Adam — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:56:00 +0000

Win a round the world trip for two and plenty of other great prizes with a new competition from Hostel Bookers. The answer to the question can be found in the EyeforTravel’s research which found that HostelBookers are cheaper than [...]

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Traveler IQ Test

Benedict Adam — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:54:18 +0000

I really like this quiz from TravelPod, its pretty addictive. Have ago yourself here. I got to level 8 first go, will be having another attempt soon after feeling slightly ashamed of my superior geographical knowledge of South America over [...]

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If the World Had Only 100 People in It

Benedict Adam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:46:15 +0000

A really interesting video from John Chow called If the world had 100 people in it. Makes you feel pretty lucky, i particularly found the fact that ”if you keep your food in a refrigerator, your clothes in a closet, you have a bed to [...]

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Answer me this Richard

Benedict Adam — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:36:13 +0000

This letter to Richard Branson about a Virgin Atlantic flight is briliant. From Tales from the Script: Oliver Beale Tel: obscured Email: oli.beale@obscured 17th December 2008 Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 Flying Club number obscured [...]

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Google earth outreach and disappearing forests of the world

Benedict Adam — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:55:00 +0000

Google Earth Outreach was launched in April, endorsed by Sir David Attenborough it allows charities to use the Google Earth software to spread information about their causes. TreeHugger posted about a great new Google Earth KML file Disappearing Forests of [...]

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Completely Uninhabited Islands

Benedict Adam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:36:20 +0000

On the beach have just posted a list of 7 Beautiful but Completely Uninhabited Islands and Archipelagos. Great places to go if you want to get away from people, though how you get there might not be so simple! I [...]

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20 Places Threaterned by Global Warming

Benedict Adam — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:08:49 +0000

Holiday operator On The Beach have a blog and they’ve been writing a few interesting posts of late, one of the most interesting was 20 Cities, Islands & Countries Threatened By Global Warming, which highlights many of the places that [...]

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