The women who ran for Open Borders

Volunteers made freedom of movement the issue on the 5k women's challenge. If you find immigration laws as backward, restrictive and repulsive as we do, you can join our Open the Borders campaign, support the women...

Climbing Brandberg Mountain in Namibia

On the 6th of July Kobus Alberts, Steffen Oesterle, Volker Mohrholz and Toralf Heene started the climb to Königstein.We left at 14:00, with the aim to overnight in the area near to Springbokwasser. (Just to put the...

Nokia Takes 'Lonely Planet' Mobile

Now this is a very smart idea. Paired with a GPS-enabled 3G mobile device such as, oh let's just say an iPhone, travelling to new places will never be the same: no more stopping strangers to ask directions, you'll be...

Bikes Only Travel: Copenhagen Closes Road to Cars

With petrol prices as mad as they are this makes more sense every day.  "Copenhagen and Amsterdam are in an informal competition to be known as the world's best cycling city. Both have large populations of...

Local Food Celebration: The Four Corners of Carolina BBQ Road Trip

(1st Corner) Thick billows of smoke were fleeing from the windows of the gray cinder block building like spirits from an exorcism, but no shouts of alarm rose with the smoke, no sirens cut into the cool morning air. “Oh yes, oh yes,” I thought to...

Travel Alert - Mexico

  If you are traveling through the San Jose Del Cabo airport near Cabo San Lucas,

Black Republicans Radio AD Obama Slum Lord

Radio ads exposing the real Sen. Barack Obama as a Slum Lord and a far left-wing radical have been released by the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) and are being aired in battleground states. One ad is...

Drought-ic action: 'Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds' (via BBC)

African farmers don't want to add to their livestock in times of drought.So "Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought" writes Ruth Nesoba (BBC News, Nairobi) in Goat...

Taltarni, Wines from Autralian Pyrenees with Breton Winemaker

I never tasted any of the Taltarni wines nor remember noticing them. What piqued my curiosity at first was How to Pour Sparkling Wine with Loïc Le Calvez (on Chow) or should I say the Britanny link of the story. With a name like Loïc Le Calvez, the senior winemaker of...

Do's and Don'ts of Traveling on Traveldodo

Before you step into a viper's nest, a bad spell or more prosaically an hotel, a restaurant you should not have visited in a locale you never experienced before, pay a visit to Traveldodo and save yourself a headache.If you are or were on the receiving end of a sour trip,...

CBI raids residence of passport officials at Kochi

"CBI raids residence of passport officials at Kochi By Indo-Asian News Service on Friday, October 3, 2008Filed Under: Latest India News ...

Top 10 Ethical Jeans Brands and more via 'Greenmystyle'

I would not call myself a dedicated follower of fashion.Despite its blend of news and shopping, I felt that Greenmystyle ,a UK based site for fashion, beauty products and housewares was worth mentioning because of its focus on eco-friendly products. Their Top 10 Ethical Jeans...

Acropolis of Athens at night

I took this photo of Acropolis of Athens last July in my summer holiday. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments

Poll on the economy: Americans gloomier, for now

"As people on Wall Street and Main Street hold their breath to see if a federal bailout of the nation's financial institutions will work, Americans are starting to speak — not whisper — the word "depression." In a sign that anxiety is growing, 33% of 1,011 adults surveyed...

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