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Travellers'
Checks - everything
you need to plan your escape
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| The
Basics |
Working
Overseas |
| journey planner |
Volunteering |
| Red
Tape & Visas |
Sustainable backpacking |
| Travel
Health |
Low-carbon Travel - The Debate |
| Weather |
Trees |
| Maps |
Greener Guidebooks |
| Events
& Festivals |
Kit & Photography |
| News
& Radio stations |
Some other travel sites |
| Communication |
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What
a marvellous resource this
interweb thingy is. Not
since the canoe has a single invention changed how we travel
quite so much. Travellers'
Checks
has been lovingly typed and categorised to help you look outside
your guidebook when researching your trip so that maybe you
can get off the track being beaten by so many others.
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If
you know of any good websites or
blogs that should be included here, let us know at
info@day12.com
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| The
Basics |
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Distance
calculator
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How far away
is your next destination..
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World
times
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...and what time will it be when you get there?
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Currency
convertor
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How much cash
are you going to need?
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International
Dialing Codes
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Is +226 Burkina
Faso or Bolivia?
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| Journey Planner |
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Country Guides |
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Wikipedia - the
open-source encyclopedia |
What
the internet was invented for |
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National Geographic
Travel
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Crammed with
travelogues and, of course, stunning photography
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Wexas online
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Information
for all types of traveller from the publishers of the excellent
'Travellers'
Handbook'
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CIA World
Factbook
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Wow. There's
nothing those cheeky agency boys don't know
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Foreign &
Commonwealth Office
website
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Featuring the
British
FCO's travel advice and contact information for British
embassies overseas
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The FCO's
gap-year travel site
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The FCO's
gap-year advice site
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How to get there |
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The Man in Seat Sixty-One |
Probably the web's most exhaustive list of train and boat
schedules and routes - just brilliant. |
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Johnny Jet |
US
based travel site featuring air, rail, ferry information |
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Round the world flights |
But before you contribute another 4 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere through your journey, check out our Low-carbon Travel section |
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| Red
Tape & Visas |
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Worldwide directory
of embassies
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Kinda speaks
for itself
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Another Worldwide
directory of embassies
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Er...
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Worldwide directory
of tourist offices
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Tourist offices.
1,241 of
them around the world. How
many leaflets do you imagine that is?
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The
Australia Tourism
Commission
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The
ATC's official site for those
wishing to visit Oz. i.e. all
of us
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Australian
tourist and working visas
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Oz immigration information
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Destination
New Zealand
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The official
Kiwi tourism site for when you
get bored of Australia
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New
Zealand tourist and working visas
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NZ's immigration
information
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| Travel
Health |
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Travellers' Health
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The British
Department of Health's
advice for travellers
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Masta travel
clinics
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Immunisation
clinics across the UK
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| Weather |
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BBC Weather
Centre
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International
weather forcasts from the BBC.
Rather graphics heavy but comprehensive
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Average weather conditions |
Average monthly temperature, rainfall and humidity by city |
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Snow & Avalanche
Centre
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Weather reports
for skiers and snowboards
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Worldwide hourly
forecasts
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US based weather
service
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| MAPS |
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Google
Earth
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Still fun. Download
the free version and kiss goodbye to the rest of your day.
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National Geographic's
map machine
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The second best map
site we've found. Interactive
and excellent
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Map Quest
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A US
based site which is less US-centric
than some others we've come across
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World Atlas
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An educational
map site. Slightly less detail,
but with quizzes!
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| Events
& Festivals |
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Festivals and
events worldwide
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UK based site
featuring a wide range of events and festivals
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More festivals
and events worldwide
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US based site
doing the same
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Full Moon Calendar |
Is there a full moon party when you're in the area? |
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UNESCO World
Heritage sites
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A complete list
of heritage sites for you to go and photograph
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Major exhibitions
and museums worldwide
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Take in a bit
of culture, or just get out of the rain
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A guide to the
world's religions
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What to wear
to a mosque. And where not
to say "Jehovah"
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| News
& Radio stations |
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Online
news sites
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BBC World
news
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The BBC.
It just feels better
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The Economist
magazine
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Informed, accurate
and excellent. Even if they do
believe that liberal economics can save the world
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The Guerrilla
News Network
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An alternative
to the Government News
Network. And
probably not sanctioned by Tony
Blair
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Amnesty International
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Whose pockets
are your tourist dollars going to end up in?
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The Onion
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"Satire
afflictes the comfortable, and comforts the affllicted"
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Who Owns What? |
The key to reading the news is to know who's writing it. Excellent resource from the Colombia Journalism Review |
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Online
newspapers
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Online newspapers...
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To really learn
about your next destination, put down your guidebook...
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...and magazines worldwide
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...and go to the local media
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The Sydney
Morning Herald,
Sydney, Australia
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Australia's biggest
selling daily
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The New
Zealand Herald,
Auckland, NZ
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New Zealand's
biggest seller
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Online
radio stations
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Rockhawk
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The guy who
runs this site spends too much time in his bedroom, but he's got a very comprehensive
list of online radio stations
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Radio
locator
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Another station
locator if you can't handle the Rockhawk
site
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Triple J
(Australia)
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The station that
launched every Aussie band you've
ever heard of
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rdu (New Zealand)
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Excellent student
radio from Christchurch
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