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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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| Working
Overseas |
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Working overseas
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Holds your hand
a bit but lots of information on working overseas and gap-year
travel generally
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Scuba diving
qualifications
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All your 'Big
Blue' fantasies in one handy
website.
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Jobs in Australia
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Oz based backpackers'
site with a great database of job agencies and info on visas
etc
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More jobs in
Australia
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Another Oz
based site focussing on both temporary and professional job
opportunities
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Jobs in New
Zealand
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Kiwi job site.
Lots of job opportunities plus
help with visas, IRD (tax) numbers
and CVs
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Career breaks
overseas
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Professional
career breaks if you've got a bit of experience and fancy
a change of scene
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| Teaching
English as a Foreign Language |
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CELTA -
the teaching qualification
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Probably
the most recognised teaching qualification
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The
following websites feature advice for teachers and students
of English including ideas for
lessons and job opportunities around the world
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Dave's ESL
cafe
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TEFL Professional
Network
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ESL Worldwide
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ELT Job Centre
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Transitions
Abroad
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| Volunteering |
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World Wide
Opportunities on Organic
Farms
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Voluneering opportunities
on organic farms across the globe
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Wwoofing and organic farming |
A comprehensive guide to all things organic |
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i-to-i: meaningful travel
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Lots of volunteering
opportunities across the globe
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GoNomad:
US-based alternative travel site
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US based, general
travel site with lots of volunteering opportunities
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GoNomad's
mini-guide to volunteering
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A handy guide
for anyone considering volunteering
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The United
Nations's volunteering site
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United Nations
volunteering opportunities
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Volunteer your
skills online from home
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Translating articles,
researching data, mentoring young people and more, from your
own PC. What
a great idea
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Volunteering
in the UK
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Projects across
the UK for those bitten by the
volunteering bug
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Voluntary
Service Overseas
(VSO)
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VSO: Volunteering
with the international development charity
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Worldwide
volunteering opportunities
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Overseas volunteering
opportunities for 17-19 year olds
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| Sustainable backpacking |
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Tourism Concern
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Featuring campaigns
to highlight exploitation in the tourism industry and packed
with information on responsible tourism
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National
Geographic site
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A comprehensive
links section on sustainable tourism
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Ethical travel
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Working with
the tourism industry to strengthen human rights and protect
the environment
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Loco2 - Low
Carbon Travel Adventures
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"Putting the mental in environmental" - featuring low carbon festival travel
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The Responsible
Tourism Partnership
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Working to improve
destinations for local people and visitors
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The
Cape Town Declaration
on Sustainable Tourism
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The 2002 Cape
Town Declaration
from The Responsible
Tourism Partnership
and Western Cape
Tourism, South
Africa
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The International
Porter Protection
Group
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Working to improve
the lives of mountain porters worldwide
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Respect the Mountain |
Excellent UK-based sustainable skiing site |
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Ski Area Citizens |
US-based Sustainable skiing site featuring environmental 'scorecards' for resorts |
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Responsible Travel |
Source holidays with responsible tour operators and hotels |
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| Low-carbon Travel - The Debate |
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To fly or not to fly, that really has become the question. The sites below cover the argument from 'No, Never!' to 'If you must but offset your carbon emissions'. Unfortunately, 'yes, and bugger the consequences' just isn't an option anymore. Have a look at some of the sites below and check out an
introduction to the debate on our news pages.
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is carbon offsetting just hot air? |
an article from the UK's Guardian newspaper featuring an excellent green products and services directory |
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Plane stupid |
UK-based anti-flying, anti-airport activists |
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How to fly the guilt-free skies |
An pro-carbon offsetting article from Ethical
Traveler director, Jeff
Greenwald, in On
Earth magazine |
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Helping you because you can't help yourself |
If you have trouble being faithful, offset your infidelilities here |
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Round the world - overland |
Futerra.com's Ed Gillespie is currently on an airport-free round the world trip. Read his low-carbon blog here |
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a carbon calculator |
calculate and offset your carbon emissions |
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| Greening your flight - Trees |
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WWF - The
Global Trees
Campaign
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10% of the world's tree species are threatened
with extinction
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Soundwood - Make
music, conserve trees
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Over 200 species
of tree are used to make musical instruments. 70 of these
species are under threat
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Tree 2 my door
- sustainable gifts
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Unique sustainable
gifts, including the very cool 'EcoSphere'
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Trees
for cities
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An urban tree-planting
and community 'greening' project
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| Greener
Guidebooks |
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Greener Guidebooks
with Amazon
As members of the Amazon
Associates program, when you
click through to Amazon from
day12.com and buy a book, a percentage of the price comes back to us
from Amazon - pretty cool, eh?
We in turn donate that money to
one of the organisations in our 'Trees'
section (above) to make your 800-page guidebook just a little
bit greener. In fact, that goes
for anything you buy from Amazon
through day12.com - CDs, books,
digital cameras - Amazon sells
everything - and we'll use that cash to plant trees.
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Please choose
the Amazon site for your country
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| Kit
& Photography |
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Security gear
for your rucksack
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Lots of innovative
ideas to protect your kit
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Photographic
equipment
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Bags and accesories
to protect your camera equipment
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Jessop's photography
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Camera equipment
and accesories
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| Some
other travel sites |
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World surface
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UK/US based resource
for student backpackers
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Inside Out
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US based online
travel magazine
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Guardian travel
online
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Online travel
from the UK's Guardian
newspaper
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The Connected
Traveller
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US based travel
site with video and a bizarre radio station
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World travellers
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Air, rail and
ferry info oragnised around a large links page
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| Other
stuff we like |
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NoFlights.com |
Features ideas and itineraries for flight-free holidays from Venice to Barbados |
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ReelEarth |
A drive across the Sahara in a couple of old Land Rovers . Sounds like an excellent idea to us |
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Webcams |
Despite a bias for US locations, both the links here have a wide selection of webcams from around the world. if you know of any other webcam directories (careful now), please let us know at info@day12.com |
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EditRED |
A writer's community site designed to help writers develop and publish their work. |
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Songlines magazine
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Excellent world
music magazine
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Zuba
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Zuba! African
dance music by way of Zimbabwe,
Liberia and...Glasgow.
New album, 'Allez!'
out now.
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Blue Flag
- Clean Beaches
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Eco-label awarded
to clean beaches across Europe,
South Africa
and the Caribbean
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Slow Food
- global cuisine
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"Protecting
the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of fast
food and life." Great idea
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Tramping in New
Zealand & the UK
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A personal and
authoritative guide to tramping in New
Zealand and the UK
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UK rail timetables
& routes
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So you know how
to get to the Eurostar terminal
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The Ecologist
magazine
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Ecological activism
edited by Zac Goldsmith
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Online forum
for aid workers
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Advice, views
and forums for aid workers
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Flags.net
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Flags...mostly
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Karmabanque
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Social protest
through capitalism! Now there's
a shock.
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Zenzibar
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Alternative
culture site featuring lots of alternative travel ideas
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Creative
Commons
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Free
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Open Democracy
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your
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Open Source
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thoughts.
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Metropolis Tokyo
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Excellent online
listings magazine for Japan -
in English
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