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Best Beach in the World
Best beach in the world (2) has to be the Whitsundays off Queensland. The pale white sand is so pure there that it squeaks between your toes. To get there, you can take a boat from Cairns, Airlie Beach or even Brisbane.
Not to be Seen Dead In?
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade suggests reconsidering travel plans to the following places: civil unrest and violence in Indonesia and Fiji, Brazil (violent street crime), Uganda (violence re presidential elections), Laos (bombing in public places).
Chocolate Corner…Paris
Maeve recommends Angelina's which can be found opposite Le Louvre for the most fabulous molten chocolate!! It comes in a jug complete with jugs of cream and milk to mix to taste. Yum yum!!
Want to tell us about your favourite coffee corner or watering hole? Then contact the Beetle: Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk
Travel Tips
Frank from Alabama says that he uses Velcro on his trouser pockets.
He also carries a wallet in his back pocket. It contains two dollars, that is two one dollar bills, between them he has newspapers cut to same size everything in a plastic bag.
In the bag he has Swiss Blue, a chemical, when it comes into contact with hands etc. it turns a very bright blue/purple. It will ruin clothing and anything else that it touches.
Nothing too good for the thieves is his motto!
Got any travel tips for the Beetle? Then e-mail them to:Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk
You want to visit?…Peru?
Arrive in Lima, spend at least 2 nights there and visit the cathedral, the museum of the Inquisition, buy bus ticket to Pisco. Visit Paracas national Park, take the bus to Nazca and organise a trip in a light aircraft to see the Nazca lines the next day. Take the bus to Arequipa and stay a couple of says – visit the convent of Santa Catalina, make an overnight/2 day trip to the Colca Canyon. Fly to Cuzco – about $60 o/w, do the Inca trail or take the train to Machu Picchu. Cuzco’s a great place to hang around in, then fly back to Lima, Take an Amazon side trip or continue overland by train to Puno on Lake Titicaca and then bus to Copacabana in Bolivia.
Please contact Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk for your suggested country itinerary
Coffee Corner..London
Paul Webmaster Roberts recommends Cafe Valerie, Regents Street Branch, good coffee and cakes and its not Starbucks.
Want to tell us about your favorite coffee corner or watering hole? Then contact the Beetle: Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk
Stop Press: £1,000 Travel Award
Under 24? A member of Globetrotters Club? Interested in a £1,000 travel award? Know someone who is? We have £1,000 to award each year for five years for the best submitted independent travel plan. Interested? Then see our legacy page on our Website, where you can apply with your plans for a totally independent travel trip and we’ll take a look at it. Get those plans in!!
Fave Website of the Month ©Globetrotters club 2001 http://www.globetrotters.co.uk/
Have a look at: This is a “cultural travel magazine” and has some short travelogues with lovely pictures. The Website has also won a couple of prestigious Internet awards too!
Travel Tips
The beetle puts safety pins in her shorts pockets to prevent being pick pocketed in busy areas.
Got any travel tips for the Beetle? Then e-mail them to:Beetle@globetrotters.co.uk