Featured Travel Site

World Taximeter

2008-05-06T15:15:00.002+10:00

International taxi fare calculator. The site currently supports calculations for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, San Francisco and Toronto.

worldtaximeter.com

I Found Your Camera

2008-04-29T15:56:00.002+10:00

Here is a site where you can upload photos from found cameras, hopefully reuniting the camera with its owner.

www.ifoundyourcamera.net

AltFrankfurt.com

2008-04-22T16:19:00.001+10:00

AltFrankfurt.com is an electronic picture book, a "Golden Book" of images of the beautiful Old City of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, once Europe's largest preserved medieval city.

altfrankfurt.com

BoltBus

2008-04-15T17:00:00.002+10:00

BoltBus is a low cost bus service operating in Northeast USA. Book early enough and you can get a ticket for 1 dollar. Destinations currently served are New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston.

boltbus.com

Live Air Traffic Control

2008-04-08T08:59:00.001+10:00

LiveATC.Net provides live air traffic control (ATC) broadcasts from air traffic control towers and radar facilities around the world.

liveatc.net

V Australia

2008-04-01T15:14:00.002+11:00

V Australia is the new airline broght to you by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group. It will initially fly from Sydney to Los Angeles from December 2008. It is the first new airline to take advantage of the open skies deal between the United States and Australia. Previously only Qantas and United were allowed to operate between the two countries.

vaustralia.com.au

Heathrow Terminal 5

2008-03-25T13:00:00.002+11:00

After much hype and publicity, Heathrow Terminal 5 opens this on March 27 for the flying public. British Airways is the sole tenant of the massive new terminal which took six years to build and cost £4.3bn.

terminal5.ba.com

TripAdvisor's 2008 top 10 Dirtiest Hotels

2008-03-18T21:41:00.001+11:00

TripAdvisor has compiled a list of the dirtiest hotels in the US and UK, as chosen by their members.

tripadvisor.com/DirtyHotels

St. Patrick's Festival

2008-03-11T15:23:00.002+11:00

On the 17th of March every year it is not uncommon to see people with green hair staggering around with a green beer in their hand. Yes, St. Patrick's Day is coming. Irish descendants and expats put on their own celebrations but the biggest party of course is in Ireland.

St. Patrick's Festival is Ireland's official celebration for Ireland's national holiday - St. Patrick's Day.

stpatricksfestival.ie

JohnnyJet.com

2008-03-04T22:33:00.002+11:00

JohnnyJet.com is a weekly travel newsletter/directory that has been online since 2000, which in internet years is a long time.

The weekly newsletter features the travels of Johnny Jet, AKA John DiScala. This guy flies alot, and he is still as passionate about flying as when he started out.

johnnyjet.com

Sleeping in Airports

2008-02-26T12:33:00.002+11:00

If you are really on a tight travel budget or have a flight that leaves at a ridiculous hour in the morning sleeping at the airport might be a better option than paying for accommodation.

Sleeping in Airports was put together by Canadian Donna McSherry in 1996 and now has over 5000 reviews of airports that readers have slept (or tried to sleep) in.

Reviews including the best and worst around the world. Tips for sleeping comfortably and safely while grounded, articles, news and other strange places to sleep.

www.sleepinginairports.net

megabus.com

2008-02-19T20:20:00.003+11:00

Megabus.com offer bus and train fares (megatrain.com)in the UK for prices from one pound and up. Given how expensive travel around the UK can be, this is a great deal if you can plan trips in advance. They have also launched a bus site for US travel as well.

megabus.com

Unusual Hotels of the World

2008-02-12T21:35:00.000+11:00

Unusual Hotels of the World list some truly unique hotels. From underground hotels, undersea lodges to tree houses and igloos.

uhotw.com

Escape Artist

2008-02-05T21:45:00.000+11:00

Huge resource directory on living overseas and long term travel advice.

escapeartist.com

The Rickshaw Run

2008-01-29T15:42:00.001+11:00

The Rickshaw Run is a race in India using the iconic Indian motorised rickshaws. The race is on twice a year, once in the Summer and once in the Winter just after Christmas. The Summer event launches on the 1st June 2008.

rickshawrun.theadventurists.com

Postcrossing - The Postcard Exchange Project

2008-01-22T15:31:00.000+11:00

Postcrossing is a project that invites people to exchange postcards (real paper ones, not electronic) from random places in the world. If you send a postcard, you'll receive at least one back, from a random postcrosser somewhere in the world. It is free to participate.

postcrossing.com

Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.

2008-01-15T12:49:00.000+11:00

Liverpool is this years "European Capital of Culture" (sharing the honour with Stavanger and Sandnes in Norway).

Holding the European Capital of Culture title can be a catalyst of urban regeneration for some cities, such as happened for Glasgow, which was European Capital of Culture in 1990.

liverpool08.com

Singapore Changi Airport - T3

2008-01-08T13:54:00.000+11:00

Singapore Changi Airport opens Terminal 3 on 9 January 2008. The terminal will have 28 aerobridge gates, with eight capable of handling the Airbus A380.

It will increase the airport's maximum passenger capacity annually by 22 million, bringing the total annual capacity up to 70 million passengers.

changiairport.com/t3/

Orange Ways

2008-01-01T15:25:00.000+11:00

OrangeWays is a low cost bus service operating from Budapest, Hungary. It offers discount bus tickets to popular central/eastern European destinations including Prague, Krakow and Vienna, as well as to Romania and Ukraine.

OrangeWays

NORAD Tracks Santa

2007-12-21T18:25:00.000+11:00

Track Santa's movement as he makes his way around the world from Christmas eve at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command). Track Santa live with the help of Google Earth as he makes his way around the world.

noradsanta.org

Star Alliance Screensaver

2007-12-14T15:39:00.000+11:00

The Star Alliance Screensaver shows every flight in the Star Alliance network as they are scheduled. You have to download it to your computer but it is worth it. When the screensaver starts up colour coded dots from all of the Alliance airlines make their way across the globe and it even shows where is night and day right now.

staralliance.com/en/travellers/tools_services/screensaver.html

Bed Jump

2007-11-29T07:53:00.000+11:00

The urge to jump up and down on hotel beds is universal it seems. Some say a holiday hasn't truly begun until you arrive to your hotel room, plonk your bags down, then take a running jump to your bed.

BedJump.com by hotelsbycity.net is where jumpers can send photos of themselves jumping on hotel beds.

BedJump.com

St Pancras International Train Station

2007-11-16T19:25:00.000+11:00

St Pancras International Train Station. The unique London landmark and new home of Eurostar re-opens after a £800 million restoration.

stpancras.com

Arrivals St Pancras

2007-11-15T21:21:00.000+11:00

To celebrate the launch of the Eurostar service from the newly refurbished St Pancras station in London, there are 12 days of events and activities.

arrivals2007.org.uk

Expedition 360

2007-10-09T22:12:00.000+10:00

On the 6th of October Englishman Jason Lewis and the Expedition 360 team became the first to circumnavigate the world on muscle power. This journey started in 1994, back when the internet was in it's infancy (no hotmail or blogs back then).

All travel was by human power (no motors or sails). This included bicycles, in-line skates, kayaks, swimming, walking and a pedal powered boat.

expedition360.com