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Backto 1997 EDUCATIONAL LINKS... by Nanis
This was one of the winners in the Best of Web 1994 awards,mainly due to the 250 quality photographs of landscape, wildlifeand young women, rather than Philip Greenspun's North Americantravel writing.
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http://maghreb.net/morocco/
Maps, guides, museums, festivals, traditional handicrafts,wedding music and even how to make a nice cup of mint tea - thishas absolutely everything you ever wanted to know aboutsouk-sodden Morocco. Morrocan cinema does not begin and end withmoody shots of Casablanca and this site charts the short historyof indigenous cinema. Football is like religion but rallying, seaangling, snow skiing and even surfing are all popular sports.Details enclosed. Access providers, trade shows and Morrocansoftware are not left out of the equation and all thrown into anextraordinarily vibrant mix. There's also a picture gallery. Evenfound a camel and a bloke in a fez.
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http://www.cumbria.com/gbbb/home.htm
A far cry from boinky bedsprings, brown wallpaper and greasyfried eggs, the Great British Bed and Breakfast guide is anythingbut y'average dirty weekend. Thoroughly decent, clean andrespectable properties - farmhouses, original features, chintzycurtains and country settings - are described in detail andsketched as an olde worlde pen and ink drawing, with theoccasional colour photo as well. Entries are enticingly writtenand confident and assured. Well-worth consulting for a weekendaway.
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http://www.istc.org/
Find out where to get an international student identity cardand where you can use it. Other information, like travellers'tales, is promised in the future.
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http://www.seattleweb.com
The name alone conjures up an exciting community - graphicsand technology taken straight from Disclosure, a San Franciscansensibility only harder, more driven, more Microsoft. Uh-uh.Alas, this is a fairly standard sort of local guide and for asite so dependent on having up-to-date information a lot of lostlinks are encountered along the way. The initial categories -scene, cities, business, dining, education, outdoors and maps -are a little difficult to read. The information is there and youcan search on it, but all in all it's fairly uninspired.
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http://www.scotland.net
Hooked on Braveheart. Planning a trip to Edinburgh for NewYear's Snogmanay or just fancy a bit of Trainspotting? Eitherway, check this one out. With details travel, accommodation,business and leisure information all presented in a readable,informative format, it's a great away to plan a trip to visit ourCaledonian cousins. Even better though is the series of Top Tenswhich range from the best Scottish films - Mel Gibson kilt frenzy- to the top Scottish football managers and malt whiskies. With acameo appearance from Dennis The Menace in the Beano characterstop ten, everything from chasing Nessie to hurling cabers isright at your fingertips.
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http://www.powderbyrne.co.uk
Stop surfing and start skiing. Providing a classy service forholidaymakers in search of more than Ski Sunday, Powder Byrne'sindividual approach to winter travel translates very well ontothe Web page. From Klosters to Courchevel, the relevant skiresort facts are available, along with information on hotels,prices, corporate and childcare perks. There are also haveoff-piste clinics for the more experience skier. Book now.
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http://www.mapquest.com/
MapQuest site offers online interactive street guides. Catchis, it's strictly American - so it's only great if you'replanning to drive from Peoria to Disneyland. Workman-like designoffers TripQuest, JavaQuest (for them as has it), special toursof cyber cafÚs. They also take on special projects, producinginteractive maps for business outlets, and you can check outtheir client showcases here. But, do heed the ominous warning:'Your use of this site is subject to our terms and conditions.îOr else what? Indentured servitude?
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http://www.leisureplan.com/
Snappy name, just rolls off the tongue! Yes, it's yet anotherholiday tour, tourist attraction, car rental and accommodationfinder. A big thumbs up for the sleep-over section - withsuccessful searches for a condo in San Francisco, chalet inSwitzerland and small family run hotel in Shropshire. Allaccommodation comes with exterior photograph, pics of thebedroom, dining area, reception and anything else worthmentioning. If nothing comes back with your stated preferencesthen it automatically 'relaxes' them to show you what else is onoffer. Suck it and see. Car rental is okay, as long as you're onthe road in Namibia or Southern Africa.
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http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk
Who needs travel agents when you can surf to Internet HolidayRentals to 'choose a property and contact the owner direct.î Ano-nonsense site narrows down your choice by area: Europe, USA,the Caribbean, then clicks you into details and temptingsnapshots. Updates promise to add 20 new properties a week, butyou'll probably need a holiday just to recover from the prices.Handy currency converter. Top site for planning or merelydreaming, it shows what the Net's best at - targeting specialistmarkets.
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http://www.greenwichuk.com
Hosting the millenium celebrations, the international dateline and now a celebratory site, Greenwich is attempting to fastforward itâs image for the 21st Century. It offers aninteractive chat programme for like minded Greenwich buffs and arandom picture generator offering digital pictures of pub, cluband scrubland but this is still a good guide for visitors to theGreenwich area and for local residents. The site is still undersome heavy construction but with three years before milleniumfever sweeps the country, time is well and truly on Greenwichâsside.
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http://www.goplay.com
Updated weekly GoPlay is an impressive Time Out-like guide towhat's happening in the San Francisco Bay area. It's welldesigned with movie, book and music reviews alongside guides tothe best restaurants, clubs and shops in the area. You can alsothrow in your twopennyworth and vote on what you think of theclubs and restaurants.
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http://calligrafix.co.uk/focus
Wonderful gateway to all things tartan, this site welcomesyou to search an alphabetical list from Aberdeen to Yetholm orexplore by category (a much better bet). Sprinkled with gorgeouspics and even a slide show, and written with pride, there'splenty of info on pubs, crafts, whisky tours, local industry,trains, Gaelic language, history and heritage, environmentalmatters and sustainable technology, plus some pure touristyspin-offs from The Lonely Planet. Links to Rampant Scotland fornational overview of high and lowlands, or local John O'Groatscommunity newsletter. Ooch aye!
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http://eurostar.com/eurostar/
A longtime resident of the infamous Internet shopping mallBarclaySquare, Eurostar, though continuing to maintain a presencethere, has also decided to go it alone - perhaps because nobodycould find it before. Anyway, potential punters can access thesite in a choice of five languages (English, French, German,Dutch or Japanese) using a variety of different browsers. It'svery efficient, fast and extraordinarily simple to use, givingdetails of routes, timetables, booking, prices, special offersand so on. If only everything were this easy - a real pleasure touse.
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http://www.users.interport.net/~khittel
If you're flying off to New York and worried that since theybanned smoking in resturants and other public spaces you'll bereduced to having a crafty fag on the street, then Dr Puff hassorted out a whole list of places where you can sneak a nicotinehit and eat at the same time. (Don't you just hate it when peopledo that?) Otherwise, if you're just looking for a littlenoir-type ambience, either that or a smoking-related disease,then the doctor's resturant reviews are also pretty relevant,spot on, and he makes a great Martini.
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An encyclopaedic summary of every county's essentialstatistics and details. Disputed zones such as the Gaza Strip andthe West Bank are treated as separate countries with their owndata. It's not updated frequently enough, though, as neither ofthese regions' recently won independence is mentioned. Theinformation provided includes geographical boundaries,international disputes, climate, geography, economic indicators,population demographics, government, communications and defence.This is excellent source material for school, travel or businesstrivia but not enough for a military takeover.
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Getting through to an airline by phone has always been aright pain so forgive us for getting just a little excited aboutBritish Midland's online scheduled flight booking system. CalledCyberseat, booking is a breeze and checking routes or thetimetable is equally simple. Hurrah for British Midland - let'shope other airlines catch up
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http://www.travel2000.com
Occasionally some of these do-it-all travel services are toobusy flogging hotel rooms and fail to make any concessions in the'travel broadens the mind' department. Travel 2000 starts byoffering information on your chosen anywhere-in-the-worlddestination and even if it can't put its hands on exactly whatyou need, it knows a page that can and that is usually listed too(all right so it's probably the World Fact Book!). In addition ithas information on finding hotels, the States is the quite wellserved, as well as plane or train details and where or how tohire a car. Once again America is well covered but do try anywayif it's Guatamala or Greece you're travelling to.
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http://www.arab.net
The floodgates, metaphorically speaking, must surely be aboutto burst with a deluge of Internet business traffic from the Arabworld. This makes arab.net's arrival all the more apposite as amillion commercial opportunists scramble to bone up. Indexed bycountry and subdivided into click-on categories, this is a bitlike The World Fact Book only more discursive and enjoyable totravel around. arab.net accords each country a general overviewwith additional areas on history, geography, business, culture,transport, touring and government. As well as making a greatreference tool for business, travel and pub quiz questions (whereexactly is Qatar?) it publishes a number of special features, forexample the Saudi Top Business 100. Indispensible if you're offto Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Oman, Lebanon, Yemen, UnitedArab °mirates or Bahrain etc.
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http://www.infernet.com/
Leisure Hunt's snappy little database is designed to directholiday makers and daytrippers to the most convenient amenitiesat their chosen destination. Not too hot on historic touristattractions, better on places to stay and eat out, but great ongolf courses, Leisure Hunt covers the UK and Ireland, though notas comprehensively as you might like. A couple of key points -search criteria are sometimes too precise (AA stars? RAC stars?English Tourist crowns?) but the results are not always detailedenough (how many stars is that?). However, these quibbles areprobably being tweaked as we speak and it's definitely worthtrying. Internet's sales manager loved it - big time into golf!
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http://www.concorde-hotels.com/
Aiming at the upmarket business traveller (who must be anAmerican judging by the onsite currency converter), this has justabout everything you'd want from a hotel site except for a tourof the rooms. Using the frames format it lists all its hotels(London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and some in Morrocco)and has a facility to check prices, book direct via email or justrequest more information. There's an exterior shot of everyestablishment with a brief description. Well worth a visit ifyou're visiting the continent.
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http://woodstock.rmro.nps.gov/alcatraz/index.html
One of two entries this month for anyone planning a trip tothe Bay Area or San Francisco. The notorious Alcatraz is mostnoted for being the home of a maximum security, minimum privilegefederal penitentiary which closed in 1963. These pages take atour of it. It's now part of the Golden Gate National RecreationArea and a big tourist attraction. The tour starts with themilitary installations and then heads over to the prison. Asyou'd imagine, it's a bit grim but it's fully illustrated, ratherlike a slide slow in the village hall, and includes a fair amountof the island's rich history. Average amusement factor - far frominescapably dull!
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'From the moment you enter the Wine Train's Station, you willbegin a threefold adventure... A return to the gracious era ofelegant rail travel and distinguished service... A deliciouslycrafted culinary and wine experience...champagne brunch, gourmetlunch or exquisite full-course dinner... An enjoyable andrelaxing journey through California's historic and scenic winecountry.î Sounds tempting doesn't it? If you fancy an afternoonexcursion in a 1917 Pullman - next time you're in NorthernCalifornia that is - then this could be for you.
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http://pathfinder.com/
As with most things in the Pathfinder domain, this has to beaccessed by searching the Pathfinder server or scrolling down thecontents page. Being a Web edition of a real magazine, it's wellstructured and well balanced, with news and features, consumerreviews, bargains and discounts, maps, weather forecasts, acurrency converter and even a phrase book thrown in. Actually thearticles are rather classy, comparable to those in CondÚ Nast'sTraveler but without the disposable designer income.Recommendations still hover around the upmarket end of travel,though, and destinations are still pretty aspirational, but it'slike flicking through a recipe book and sometimes that's enough.
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http://www.thehamptons.com/
Taking my Internet head off for a moment, I'd just like tosay I've always fancied a house in the Hamptons...a cool lookingbeach residence, a swanky yank social elite... This site is ajust a taster of the stylish lifestyle on offer - thearchitecture, the film festival, the horse race! Totally tastefulbut out of my league. I can still dream, though. Maybe Martha'sVineyard?
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~aw148888/motel.html
The motel comes midway between the diner and the trailer parkas a location that sums up something quintessential aboutAmerican culture. Jenny and Andy Wood have attempted to capturethe neon-signed secrets of these highway home-from-homes beforethey are all torn down. An excellent site.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/citygate/4401733/4401733.html
Not since Roy Kinnear dressed up in a toga and told us howgood it was, has Peterborough been the subject of this muchpress. A highly comprehensive guide to the city's commerce andleisure. Roman invasion included.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/sacred-site-tours
Explore the Lost Cities of the Ancient Maya. Climb thePyramid Temples of Mesoamerica. Visit the Ball-Courts whereplayers literally competed for their lives. Yup! Now booking,18-day tours of the Ancient Mayan and Mesoamerican sites. Pricesstart at $3098.
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http://www.thomascook.com
A travel agent's high street presence never normally getspast a shoddy shop front, so it's interesting to see how thesepages really do add another, more glamourous dimension to ThomasCook's services. This site includes details of its offices aroundthe world and information on travel insurance, travellers chequesand foreign exchange. Bound to expand in the future, so wellworth keeping an eye on.
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http://silkroute.com
Essential travel and Internet information on Australia,Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand,Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,Thailand, Tibet and even Vietnam. If you're setting off overseasthe whole continent is superbly covered, but is it reallyacceptable 'irony' to mail your comments tocoolie@asia-online.com?
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http://www.travelweb.com/
Presumably unless you are a jet-setter the excitement ofthese huge travel sites soon begins to pall. This one willundoubtedly turn into a mine of all round information but at themoment it's best for booking hotels, in particular, those in theHyatt chain. It's somewhat soul-less as it doesn't really alludeto the romance of catching planes, boats and trains, butnevertheless it serves a function.
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http://www.gorp.com/abvclds/photogal.htm
Steve Conlon has been travelling to Nepal since 1972. Therich images he has collected over the years will be a revelationfor people who have never been there, and a nostalgia trip forthose who have.
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http://www.fleethouse.com/barbados/barb-hom.htm
Enormously enticing pages offering details about the islandof Barbados. The overall tone is rather like a governmentinformation film - travel, accommodation, shopping andentertainment are all covered, alongside items on the localculture, religion, flying fish, grapefruit and rum. It reads inan incredibly welcoming way and Caribbean travel seems even moretempting than you'd imagine. And did you know Barbados is alsohome to the head office of Trivial Pursuit?
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http://www.demon.co.uk/caxton
It's hard to know whether this site is doing Hertfordshireany favours or not. It includes lists of hotels, pubs, a What'sOn etc, but neither the site (nor the county) starts with thebest raw material. Still, one section gives a mention to recentlybuilt housing estates. Who said the home counties were boring?
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http://www.netxtra.co.uk/accom/
This neat and efficient 'niche' search engine is designed tofind accommodation worldwide. Pick a spot on a map and then astate search radius, price range and the facilities you'relooking for. It then finds a hotel to suit you. Tops! The onlyreal problem is that the way things stand now, most of the hotelson the Internet are of the big-time tourist or corporate kind andmay lack a little character.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/atlantic/
Flying with Virgin is always done with a flourish and thissite, as well as addressing you personally in top customerservice style, offers easily accessible flight information,though it neglects to mention the price.
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http://www.aether.com/Monk/
Kind of like an American mag road movie, each excellent issueof Monk is the culmination of a couple of months that Jim andMike and their Fleetwood Bounder motorhome spend in the midst ofa major urban experience. With a turn of phrase straight out ofTales Of The City, they trawl the bars, tracking down the starsand characters who populate these places. If you read thePortland issue, look out for the best Gus Van Sant interviewever.
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http://www.romagna.com
Planning a holiday in Romagna from home? As well as being abusiness server, this also has a map, itineraries and touristinformation on the region. Helps if you speak Italian?
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http://www.hubcom.com/interpg/
Aiming to be a leading provider of holiday properties, housesfor sale and related services right across Europe is all verywell, but it's a good idea to announce it on your home page. Notknowing what this site is for is one problem, but once yourealise it houses advertisements for properties in a rather dull,one-dimensional way, you'll know to go elsewhere.
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http://www.nando.net/AT/ATmain.html
Five journalists hike the Appalachian Trail, some 2,158 milesfrom Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and weavesome of the most wonderful tales, as they wind their way amongsta host of real-life characters and some breathtakingly beautifulscenery. Rewarding reading for anyone who dreams of getting awayfrom it all.
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http://www.cntraveler.com
Very classy, easy-to-use, cosmopolitan pages, featuringup-to-the-minute deals and the latest news on the world's touristhotspots. There's also a forum area where the world's adventurerscan exchange travel tips. CondÚ Nast seems committed tosupplying a service which offers a bit more than the magazine ofthe same name.
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http://www.enterprise.net/ccs/iom/index.htm
Home to the world's oldest parliamentary body and some prettynice beaches, this site offers a good taster to the joys of theIsle of Man. Of course, motor bike races, cats with no tails andtax concessions all get a look in. Strangely no guide to theisland's gay scene!
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http://assist.cs.bham.ac.uk:8080/
Set up by Birmingham City Council and the university's schoolof computer science, this is a useful guide to what's happeningin and around Brum. Now you can bore people with loads ofinteresting facts about the Venice of the Midlands (apparently ithas more canals than Venice !).
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http://www.seanet.com/Bazar/Aeroflot/Aeroflot.html
Check the schedules, inspect the aircraft and bask in theambiance of the world's largest international airline. The effortthat has gone into designing this service could only be comparedto that of Aeroflot's staff in ensuring you have a pleasantflight.
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http://aztec.co.za/biz/africa
It's a big place, Africa, and while purporting to representthe whole continent, in truth most of this site's content is,instead, about South Africa. If you're interested in businessopportunities in the new SA, there's some good stuff here, andyou can discuss the issues in the chat rooms. A feature calledthe Mystical Launchpad has a slightly different emphasis,throwing up weird if not wonderful facts.
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http://www.euro.net/5thworld/mooncity/moon.html
If it's possible to have an alternative guide to Amsterdam,this is it. The sophisticated scrolling graphics ocasionally getin the way but basically it's a grungey guide to clubs, partiesand cannabis culture. Nice try but nowhere near as good as TimeOut.
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http://www.vch.co.uk/villas/
Sample the delights of twin luxury packages from the GreekIslands Club and British Virgin Islands Club. Blissed out holidayfantasies, bookable over the Net. Using an enquiry form customerscan fill in destinations and dates and the company will mail backpossible properties to look at. Pretty upmarket as prices startat £1,200.
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http://www.mig29.com/mig29/
Find out how much it costs to joyride in a Russian fighterplane once you've made it to Moscow.
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http://planet-hawaii.com/~planet/ct.html
Aloha...this is the definitive dope on the one-time 51ststate. Not just the kitsch, garlanded, faux Waikikki Elvis filmHawaii but information about its political history, access tocultural archives, links to festivals, environmental campaigns,Hawaiian affairs generally and the whole tourist bit as well.
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http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~voice/nighttit.htm
Okay all meet at Mona's, then have a couple of drinks at 2A,graduate to cocktails at the Royalton so you forget it's inmidtown, a midnight movie, a spot of shopping and then cab it toCanal Street for late night noodles at Hong Fat. Given that thisguide is put out by the people behind Village Voice, it's quitecool, pretty trustworthy and, hey, it's a helluva town.
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http://www.cityscape.co.uk/users/eb19/
Reading a brochure or a guidebook often gives an overall feelof 'place'. These hotel, B&B and cottage rentalrecommendations, come out of the ether with no illustrationswhich makes evaluting them with confidence quite hard. There'sinformation and lots of it, although searching is a bitprimitive, and there's also a section listing hotels withfacilities for people with disabilities, plus a list of Londonhostels for those out on the streets.
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http://www.dungeon.com/~ip7pg/london/
For sure, all the extra useful material contained in thispocket guide is great, especially London For Free and For Kids.But bear in mind it's pretty labourious looking it all up andthen printing bits out - the virtue of a pocket guide is that itfits in the pocket and can be carried round.
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http://www.pavilion.co.uk
Fancy a day at the seaside? Why not seek out these pages fromBrighton-based service provider, Pavilion. Pubs, clubs, shops,events and local business listings proffer everything needed fora day beside the sea.
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http://www.holiday-inn.com
Highly efficient, user-friendly access to every Holiday Innworldwide. Couched in the form of questions you might need to askwhen making, say, a phone enquiry, it's all there at the touch ofa button. Select destination, any tourist attractions you mightwish to visit and it comes up with its own reliableaccommodation. It tells you how close to the airport and the citycentre your hotel is and a bit about the facilities on offer.Invaluable for booking business travel but bound to be a firmfavourite with families too.
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http://www.scotborders.co.uk/
More fish are 'caught on fly' from the River Tweed than anyother river in Britain. Fact. This site provides information onsalmon fishing, the arts, industries and people of theBorderlands of Scotland.
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http://www.travelmag.co.uk/travelmag
The only problem with this site is, once you've visited it,you'll be overwhelmed with thoughts of where to go on your hols.The core articles in this excellent travelling companion areextremely entertaining and well-informed personal travelogues,strong on long haul destinations as well as those a little closerto home. Rather more discriminating than the cut-price deals onTeletext, cheap flights and bargain destinations cater for morethan three weeks on the Costa Del Dull. A round up of healthscares and warnings includes the unmissable disease of the week.
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From hotels to hillwalking, factory shopping to golf, thisgiveaway guide book covers Lancashire, Cumbria and the LakeDistrict. It won't fit in the glove compartment but it has somegood stuff on Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Arthur Ransome.Swallows Forever!
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http://www.u-net.com/hotelnet/
Going on a business trip or thinking of taking a bargainbreak? This site supplies details of hotels all over the UK.Indexed either by region or the type of accomodation, eg'seaside', 'golfing' or 'conference', all entries include fulldescriptions, colour pictures and price lists as well.
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http://www.hk.super.net/~webzone/hongkong.html
Full tourist facts and figures for one of the most denselypopulated places on the planet. Top ten recommended Chineseresturants and where to buy your fake Tag Heuer.
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http://www.nectec.or.th/rec-travel/index.html
The Usenet rec.travel hierachy, is the best place to findfellow traveller's experiences, off the road itself. This archivecollates travel advice, warnings, recollections and resourcesgleaned from the newsgroups for central access.
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http://microship.ucsd.edu/
Steven Roberts hated landlords so much he got on his bike 11years ago, and has lived as a technomad ever since, thanks to thesupport of many gadgetry sponsors. He's now given up pedallingfor his latest seafaring Microship project. Order his books hereand find out how you too can join the ranks of the cyberhomeless.
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http://198.238.212.10/regions/northwest/NWFLOW/
To check on traffic in downtown Seattle, just chime in toreceive five-minute updates from the roadway traffic sensors. Ifthis local government service proves too popular, maybe it willbecome overloaded with traffic itself.
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http://www.freenet.ufl.edu/~skydive/np.html
Ever had the urge to leap out of an aeroplane above the NorthPole? Here's a pictorial travelogue showing how to do it.
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http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/wnaismap/naismap.html
Interactive resources on the Net don't come any better thanthis DIY Canadian map builder. You can specify all sorts ofmultiple constraints, layers and relief projections, likepolitical boundaries, geological provinces and even the grizzlybear range.
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Cambodia has recently been reopened to tourists, only to finditself listed as a no-go area by nearly every foreign consulate.This site presents a gallery of photographs taken from aforthcoming CD-Rom on the country. Drop in and see what you'remissing.
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This downloadable FAQ-style travel cookbook will help youbeat the system, stay alive and save money on your nextadventure.
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http://www.istc.org
Find out where to get an international student identity cardand where you can use it. Other information, like travellers'tales, is promised in the future.
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http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/ITC/Health.html
There is token information here on the most prevalentdiseases travellers are likely to encounter, symptoms andpossible cures. However, with a little more effort this could bea great deal more useful. It gives little in the way of zonaladvice, drug contra-indications or outbreak alerts and there'snot even mention of dysentery.
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http://www.paris.org/
Thinking of a trip to Paris? This one provides a virtual tourin English of popular museums, cafÚs, monuments, shops, railsystems, educational institutions and many other attractions. Orif you really want to punish yourself there's also a version inFrench. You can do it all through interactive maps or speedthings up with text only.
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http://www.kbt.com/gc/
This private guide to the Grand Canyon is a work of greatdedication and beauty. There are no half measures taken inproviding trail and locator maps, track descriptions, images,service details, book lists, history and advice on other localattractions.
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http://www.odci.gov/94fact/fb94toc/fb94toc.html
An encyclopaedic summary of every county's essentialstatistics and details. Disputed zones such as the Gaza Strip andthe West Bank are treated as separate countries with their owndata. It's not updated frequently enough, though, as neither ofthese regions' recently won independence is mentioned. Theinformation provided includes geographical boundaries,international disputes, climate, geography, economic indicators,population demographics, government, communications and defence.This is excellent source material for school, travel or businesstrivia but not enough for a military takeover.
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http://gnn.com/cgi-bin/imagemap/HOME?457,190
There are a few commercial sites featured here, including theconservative travel publishing giant Fodor's and Mountain Travel.Apart from that there are collections of traveller's tales,albums, book reviews and virtual travel guides from almost everycountry.
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http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/
Click on the atlas interface to zoom into the region of yourchoice. Once you're down to country level, you can choose betweena resource map, resource list or general country information.This could ultimately link you with any server within the region.
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http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/EDC/Edinburgh.html
Economic facts, figures, city and suburban maps, tour guides,history, famous inhabitants and photos of Edinburgh, the secondmost popular tourist destination in the UK.
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http://www.city.net/
An excellent guide for browsing community and touristinformation from all around the globe.
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http://www1.huji.ac.il/jeru/jerusalem.html
This pretty but slow site offers a virtual tour through theold city of Jerusalem, including faces, maps, views, paintingsand a view from the sky. There's historical information, traveldetails and links to other Hebrew university information serversvia a sensitive map of Israel.
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http://www.infi.net/vegas/online
This tourist service by local CBS affiliate KLAS-TV includesa live online version of their news, weather and sports service.There's business information, shopping, maps, hotel guides andthe like, but the virtual tour of Las Vegas is the showpiece. Theguide to gaming might be handy, but you can't access the tablesonline.
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http://www.hea.ie/
Irish news, a dating service, free research informationservice and international and Irish active maps.
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http://international.com/III/nct.html
This scheme allows you to act as a travel agent, receivingdiscounted fares and tax perks. You can earn commission if youintroduce friends and then they too can enjoy identical benefits.Sounds familiar? What's the catch? Oh, it does have a smallregistration fee.
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http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/misc/uk/intro.html
You'll probably find copies of this on quite a few sitesaround the UK, particularly the universities. There's no reallimitation to the amount of regional data which can or could beretrieved by this sensible, friendly, point and click interface.There's news, weather, statistics, entertainment, broadcastlistings, transport routes and travel times, interactive rail andcity maps, guided tours, Web servers and more. It can only growfrom here, maybe with your help.
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http://www.echo.com/index.html
If you're in Santa Cruz the 'Geeks party and entertainment'guide might stave off boredom.
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au
Lonely Planet, the worlds largest travel publisher's revampedsite is certainly improving. There's enough here to give you ataste of its titles, and may even enough to persuade you todiscover a world of adventure away from your monitor. Check outthe Postcards from abroad, for proof that it's all possible.
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http://www.stolaf.edu/network/travel-advisories.html
This provides essential information if you're planning tovisit a potential hot spot, but it's not a definitive guide tosafety. Potential war zones tend to bubble for years before theyattract foriegn media and consular attention, usually after aninsurgent group takes responsibility for killing tourists, butafter it's died down they may not bother to retract this warning.In other words, don't ignore these bulletins, but seek otheradvice before postponing your adventure.
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http://metro.jussieu.fr:10001/
Pick from a selection of major cities, choose a starting andfinishing destination and the algorithm will estimate thetravelling time. A fun idea but a joke in practice, due toassumptions such as immediate connections and homogenous flow.'What about signal failure?î I hear you ask. Regrettably, thisis one of those sites that's often ignorantly used as an exampleof the vital information jet-setters can currently glean from theInternet.
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Telnet://pctravel.com
The first publicly available free airline reservation andticketing service - you can access the Apollo Reservation Systemto book from a choice of over 500 airlines and, once booked, yourticket can be Fedexed to you from the US. Feedback on thisservice please.
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http://www.ouka.fi/cityinfo_e.html
Sunny Oulu, northern Finland's largest city with a populationof just over 100,000, falls somewhat short of a tradingmetropolis. But, the hotel, local government, enterprise, andmunicipal information provided here may interest the potentialbusiness traveller. No need to bring your own snow.
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http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com:80/
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) brought the world GUIs(Graphical User Interfaces) and Ethernet. Its public Web siteprovides, among other things, a graphical world-wide map browser.You can obtain maps showing rivers, borders, and otherinformation, by specifying a location on the globe.
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http://nsa.bt.co.uk/nsa.html
Compiled by staff at some BT outpost who presumably havelittle else to do, this promo for the Highlands and Islandsinitially seems rather arcane. There are sections on leisure andculture, sporting activities and the Gaelic language, but thepages about business activity and distance working in the regionare actually very interesting. In fact, there's a lot of goodinformation here and the pictures and graphics, although theytake about as long as the boat trip to the mainland to load, arehigh quality.
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