TheLostGlobe

Useful Travel Info

If learning that it is not a good idea to handle food or shake with your left hand in Asia, or that in Australia the ‘thumbs up’ gesture is considered obscene is a good sign of an interested traveller then it might be interesting to find that in Australia at least you’d be wrong about [...]

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Facebook has really taken off, given it’s unique platform and the benefits over other social networking sites like MySpace it’s not really a surprise nor is it that it is quickly becoming a favorite of travelers. Almost everyone wants to keep in touch with the people they meet while traveling and while there are a [...]

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This is a bit of a Community Service Announcement, there have been a few reports in the news lately about the misuse of EPIRBs in Tasmania. Two notable occasions were a Swiss couple who activated their EPIRB after getting their 4WD bogged just 7Km’s from a main road and a group of South Australian’s walking [...]

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Vagabonding isn’t your regular travel book it’s not a guidebook, it’s not a travelogue and it’s not a ‘how to’ in the traditional sense. The overwhelming message Potts gives us is simply ‘don’t force it’, You see Vagabonding is a very philosophical book and the philosophy is how to travel well without preconceived [...]

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Most of us will wonder what to do about shaving in far of lands. Electric or Blade? Should we even bother?
If you do shave leave the cream at home and use oil instead, a small tube of oil will last even longer, be lighter and take up less space in your pack plus most people [...]

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Most of us who are serious about travelling know that it isn’t nearly as expensive as most people think or at least it doesn’t have to be, but thats not to say that it’s cheap, compared to your daily life at home it may be even cheaper but unless your going to [tag]work[/tag] while you travel then [...]

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There a couple of Travel Expos on this weekend, I’ll be off to the Flight Centre Travel Expo at the Wrest Point Casino in Hobart on Sunday 25th Feb 10-4. More Info and other locations here… Flight Centre Travel Expo
My GF will be in Melbourne so I will try to convince her to go the the Adventure Travel and Backpackers Expo at the Royal Exhibition Building on the 23rd - 25th Feb 10-4. More info for Melbourne [...]

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