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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Travel Deals: AirAsia seat sale, just pay taxes and charges

Booking Period: 26 Aug 2008 - 31 Aug 2008
Travel Period: 1 Apr 2009 - 31 Jul 2009
AirAsia.com
Labels: air-asia, airlines, travel-deals
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Featured Travel Site: BookCrossing
This is a great outlet to share with the world your favourite books and you get to track where they go, for the life of the book. Hopefully you will end up with a collection of well travelled books.
www.bookcrossing.com
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Travel Photo Gallery: Luxembourg City - Luxembourg
Labels: luxembourg, photo-gallery-2007
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Is it time to end La Tomatina?
At a time of rising global food prices, where food riots have broken out from Haiti to Egypt to Indonesia, What kind of message does this send to the world that struggles to feed itself. It might only be 100 metric tons of tomatoes that is used, but the event serves as a potent symbol of western excess.
La Tomatina began in 1944 or 1945, no one knows exactly when or how it started. While Europe was slugging it out in WWII the town of Buñol began slugging each other with tomatoes.
Not that life in Franco's Spain was a picnic. Who wouldn't want join in a food fight to let off some steam? Franco actually banned it because it had no religious significance, but it was reintroduced in the 1970's.
Today the La Tomatina legend has grown to become an international event that is listed in Things To Do Before You Die type lists and has even featured on a credit card advertisement.
La Tomatina though is not a festival suited to the age of mass tourism, where budget airline loads of tourists can do Spain for the weekend and tick another festival from the been there, done that list.
This is not to say there shouldn't be large messy festivals. Visit India during Holi to see how joyous a messy festival can be.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Travel Photo Gallery: London - England
Labels: england, london, photo-gallery
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Travel Deals: $199 AUD Flights From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur

The flight operates from Melbourne Tullamarine to LCC Terminal, KLIA, Kuala Lumpur. The airfare includes relevant airport taxes, admin fee, insurance and fuel surcharges.
Booking Period : 21 Aug 2008 - 24 Aug 2008
Travel Period : 12 Nov 2008 - 30 Apr 2009
AirAsia X are expanding their long haul operations to include European destinations. Flights to the UK are expected to commence in early 2009, and AirAsia have said that they could offer $500 flights (AUD) from Australia to London.
Labels: air-asia, australia, kuala-lumpur, malaysia, melbourne, travel-deals
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Featured Travel Site: AlpTransit
AlpTransit Gotthard is creating a flat rail link for future travel through the Alps. At the heart of the new transalpine rail route is Gotthard Base Tunnel. With a length of 57 km, the world's longest tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016.
neat.ch
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Travel Deals: bmibaby seat sale, just pay taxes and charges

This offer ends midnight Tuesday 19th August and is available for travel from 10th September until 11th December 2008.
fly from Birmingham Intl, Cardiff Intl, East Midlands, Manchester and Glasgow.
bmibaby.com
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Olympic medal tally by per head of population
With a traditional medal tally the powerhouse nations always top the list, but I often wonder about the smaller nations that over-achieve. The Economist have also pondered this and have produced a medal tally from the 2004 Olympics by per head of population.

Note how the Caribbean and Eastern European countries fare.
Source: Top Olympic countries
Labels: china, olympics, sport
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Travel Blogroll: 15 August 2008
Pictures and travelogues of our vacations and hikes in Switzerland, Alaska, Iceland, Madeira (Portugal) and the Canary Islands.
Sandra and Marko's Hiking Website
Directory Location: Travel Blogs S
Labels: travel-blogs
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Skytrax World Airline Awards 2008

The Skytrax World Airline Awards is the world's most respected and recognised Airline Awards.
The worldwide survey totalled 15,442,605 respondents with over 95 different passenger nationalities participating in the survey.
The list is once again dominated by the long haul airlines of the Middle East, Asia and Oceania.
2008 Skytrax World Airline Award rankings:
1 Singapore Airlines (1)
2 Cathay Pacific (3)
3 Qantas (5)
4 Thai Airways (2)
5 Asiana Airlines (12)
6 Malaysia Airlines (6)
7 Qatar Airways (4)
8 Air New Zealand (7)
9 Emirates (9)
10 Etihad Airways (23)
AIRLINE OF THE YEAR
Singapore Airlines
BEST LOW-COST AIRLINE
easyJet
BEST CABIN STAFF
Asiana Airlines
BEST INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
Emirates
BEST FIRST CLASS LOUNGE
Qantas
BEST BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE
Virgin Atlantic
BEST ECONOMY CLASS
Asiana Airlines
BEST FIRST CLASS
Cathay Pacific
BEST BUSINESS CLASS
Singapore Airlines
BEST AIRLINE : AFRICA
South African Airways
BEST AIRLINE : EUROPE
Lufthansa
BEST AIRLINE : MIDDLE EAST
Qatar Airways
BEST AIRLINE : NORTH AMERICA
Continental Airlines
BEST AIRLINE : SOUTH AMERICA
LAN
BEST AIRLINE : AUSTRALASIA
Qantas
BEST AIRLINE : ASIA
Singapore Airlines
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Featured Travel Site: Flight Memory
flightmemory.com
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Travel Photo Gallery: Lucerne - Switzerland
Labels: bridge, lucerne, photo-gallery, switzerland
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Travel Blogroll: 08 August 2008
Explore Georgia , a Country with ancient history and traditions, hospitable people, amazing nature, great food and wine.
Travel To Georgia
Directory Location: Georgia Travel Blogs
Labels: travel-blogs
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Travel Deals: Zero fares to Ireland - Just pay taxes and charges.

Aer Lingus are offering a great sale for flights from the UK. Zero fares plus the taxes and charges.
Fly to Dublin
From
Birmingham
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Jersey
London Gatwick
Manchester
Newcastle
Fly to Cork
From
Birmingham
Jersey
Manchester
Fly to Belfast
From
London Heathrow
aerlingus.com
Labels: aer-lingus, travel-deals
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Featured Travel Site: Beijing 2008
en.beijing2008.cn
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Monday, August 04, 2008
Banksy undercover in Melbourne
Labels: australia, banksy, melbourne, public-art, street-art
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
New Logo at itravelnet.com

The logo will be used on sites like Twitter, BlogCatalog and the myriad other social networking sites that have a user avatar option.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Travel Blog Friday - 1 August 2008
travelfeeder.com
A Top 5's travel blog to feed travelers with travel tips.
Travel Feeder
Directory Location: Travel Blogs T
Labels: travel-blogs
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