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a2b Travel — mainstream, wide-ranging | |||||||||||||
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Albania: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Albania Hotel — some affordable accommodation | |||||||||||||
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Albanian Travel & Hospitality Service | |||||||||||||
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Albania: Curt Prins | |||||||||||||
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Albania images: Galen R. Frysinger | |||||||||||||
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Alpha Rooms — discount hotels & apartments, worldwide coverage, no hostels | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam — photo tour – nice pics but unenlightening | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam.info — wide-ranging guide; also available in Czech | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam: ‘Being Normal Is Crazy Enough’ by Matthew Teller on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam Hotels Travel (formerly Amsterdam Public Transport Information) — independent | |||||||||||||
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Amsterdam Hotspots — all kinds of stuff, as you might imagine | |||||||||||||
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Antwerp: trabel.com — introduction | |||||||||||||
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Antwerp: The Cutting Edge — Simon O’Connell in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Association of National Tourist Offices in the United Kingdom — excellent site, and easy to use | |||||||||||||
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ATMs: using Link ATMs abroad — Link, Mastercard, Cirrus, Visa, Plus | |||||||||||||
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Auschwitz (Oswiecim) — the experiences of one traveller on a visit to the former death camp | |||||||||||||
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Austria — appropriately upmarket site | |||||||||||||
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Austria for Visitors — excellent mini-site rescued from the galloping philistinism of about.com | |||||||||||||
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The Backpacker — all sorts of stuff: worth a visit
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The Backpacker (another one) — lots of stuff, but thinly spread; a few travel articles
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Backpacker HQ — resources
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Backpackers.co.uk — hostels & budget accommodation in the UK
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Backpackers’ Ultimate Guide to Europe (BUG) — big professional site with lots of info and advice
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Backpacker Tour Company — budget tours of Europe by coach, departing London
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Backpack Europe on a Budget — American leaning, mainstream
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Backpack the Old Continent — private site, relies heavily on links but there’s a lot there; secure hostel booking through Hostel World
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Backpacking — US site with focus on the Americas
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Backpacking Across Europe: MSN Group — message-board & photo albums
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Backpacking Europe: another MSN Group
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Backpacking Light — on-line magazine: subscription only
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Bakpaka — a bit wannabe at the moment, but it has factual info & on-line hostel booking
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BootsnAll — Aussie site with on-line booking, message-board and good European coverage
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Backpacking Europe — includes hostel recommendations; information is detailed
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Backpacking Europe Message Board
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Backpacking the Planet — advice, colour and a photo gallery
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Crazy Dog Travel Guide — American backpacking site: lots of good advice
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European Hostels
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European Union Federation of Youth Hostel Associations (EUFED)
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Eurotrip.com
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French Youth Hostel Federation (FUAJ) — including bookings & travel; lots of information
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GoMio — backpacking portal with on-line booking (not the same network as ours)
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Guide For Europe — hostels, message board, tips, tour booking, newsletter – impressive
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Hiking & Backpacking — equipment
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Hostelling International — worldwide hostelling network
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Hostelling: International Booking Network — on-line youth hostel booking system operated by the International Youth Hostel Federation
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Hostel Planet — world-wide hostel guide with on-line booking
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Hostels.com — excellent worldwide hostelling & budget travel resource
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Hostels of Europe — budget travel & hostelling in Europe, discount card, message board
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Hostel World — vast amount of information and on-line booking; for searching and booking use the lower button here or the form above
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Hostelz.com — ambitious newcomer: neat, tidy, lots of information, good coverage, user reviews, some on-line booking
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The Lightweight Backpacker — that’s the equipment, not the backpacker
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Nice Hostels — hostel searching & booking (not our system), silly name but serious site
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Stayokay Hostels — a chain of rather expensive hostels in the Netherlands
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Tips for Backpacking Europe — written by a contributor to E-Pinions: brief but excellent
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Total Hostels — substantial independent site
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Wise Nomad — covers the world; recommend-a-hostel; top 20 hostels
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Youth Travel — ‘discount travel service for students and young travellers’
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Youtrek — western Europe; on-line hostel booking
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Die Bahn: European rail travel — superb; timetables covering Europe; some on-line booking | |||||||||||||
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Balkan / Haimos Café Forums | |||||||||||||
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Balkan Horn Travel — coach line running from London to Sofia & Varna | |||||||||||||
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Barcelona: The Channels — city guide | |||||||||||||
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Barcelona: ‘A Town for Eating and Drinking’ by Jules Brown on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Belgium: ‘Deserted Ruins, Overcrowded Cities, and High Art’ by Philip Lee on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Belarus: Foreign & Commonwealth Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Belarus .org.uk — amateur site with no name; lots of information | |||||||||||||
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Belarus hotels — expensive; site offers help with visa applications | |||||||||||||
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Berlin — on the Germany resources pop-up | |||||||||||||
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Books — search Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or ABE Books for secondhand books | |||||||||||||
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Bosnia & Herzegovina — Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Bosnia & Herzegovina Mine Action Centre | |||||||||||||
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British Airports Authority (BAA) — includes departure and arrival times at most UK airports, live flight arrivals & other stuff | |||||||||||||
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Budapest Visitors’ Guide — on the Budapest Sun site; accommodation is upmarket, but it’s worth a read | |||||||||||||
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Budapest Ten Day Calendar — also on the Budapest Sun site; music, theatre, galleries & museums | |||||||||||||
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Budapest & Hungary: travellers’ information — and stacks of it: a wonderful mini-site | |||||||||||||
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Budget Travel — dense and basic, with a huge amount of useful information, including hostels & message-board: a must-see site | |||||||||||||
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Bulgaria: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Bulgaria: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Bulgaria: ‘Researching the Rough Guide’ by Dan Richardson on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Busabout — European coach network for students, teachers and under-26s | |||||||||||||
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Capuchin Catacombs — Italian home of 8000 mummified bodies; articles by Anthony Parente and Paolo Ventura | |||||||||||||
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Car hire: Europcar | |||||||||||||
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Cities — travel articles about over 80 cities in The Guardian, some with direct links from this page | |||||||||||||
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Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) — sponsors exchange programmes for studying, working or volunteering overseas, plus student air fares & ID cards | |||||||||||||
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Croatia resources — on their own page | |||||||||||||
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Cuba — official site | |||||||||||||
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Currency conversion & exchange rates: xe.com | |||||||||||||
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Currency conversion & exchange rates: Oanda | |||||||||||||
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Czech Republic & Prague travel resources — on their own page | |||||||||||||
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Disability Travel — travel information site for disabled people | |||||||||||||
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Disabled travellers’ resources: Google | |||||||||||||
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E-bookers — no hostels but flights, hotels & packages; mainstream | |||||||||||||
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Embassies: UK embassies overseas | |||||||||||||
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Embassies: Foreign embassies in the UK | |||||||||||||
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Dubrovnik: Dalmation Hotspots — ‘Only eight years after the destruction of the civil war, Dubrovnik is back to its former glory.’ Guy Mansell in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Eurail — passes, prices and other information; only for non-Europeans | |||||||||||||
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European National Railways & Timetables — web directory page | |||||||||||||
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Europrail — European rail passes for US residents | |||||||||||||
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Exchange rates & currency conversions | |||||||||||||
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Expedia — mainstream; good flight search engine | |||||||||||||
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The First Resort — big, mainsteam travel & holiday site | |||||||||||||
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Air France
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Airhitch — US site: cheap flights to & from the US; European domestic flights are promised
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BMI / BMI Baby (British Midland) — booking engine gets you to a fair few destinations via other operators’ planes
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Bridge the World — part of Ebookers specialising in long-haul
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Cheap Flights: The Guardian — some useful guidance and news of discount airlines
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Croatia Airlines
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Deckchair — joined at the hip to Online Travel; slow
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Easyjet — quick & easy, but fares exclude taxes & fees
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Ebookers
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Flybe (British European)
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Germanwings — economy airline
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Just the Flight — flight searching
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KLM — of interest here are services to Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Tirana, Sofia, Tbilisi, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Almaty (Kazakhstan) & Skopje
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Lot (Polish state airlines) — with English and a good booking engine
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Lowest Fare — American site, so prices in $ and times in 12h clock
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Malév — Hungarian airline
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Online Travel — a close relative of Deckchair
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Ryanair — headline fares can be a mirage: very elusive when you come to book
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STA Travel — cheap & discount student travel & flights; flight-finding power seems poor
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Travel 4 Less — all sorts of stuff on this site, but the flights section is most useful
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Florence: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Florence tourist information — official site; English available, but not enlightening | |||||||||||||
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Florence reviews: iTravel | |||||||||||||
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Studying & living in Florence: Studentsville — includes hostel information and message-board | |||||||||||||
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About Florence — non-profit site | |||||||||||||
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Fodors — publishers | |||||||||||||
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office: travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Gapyear — ‘the complete guide to taking time out’: all sorts of stuff | |||||||||||||
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Gdansk — official site, very good introduction with one or two hostels | |||||||||||||
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Germany: culture & travel resources | |||||||||||||
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Greece: Greek National Tourism Organisation | |||||||||||||
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Greece: ‘Beautiful Beaches, Splendid Meals, Lousy Information’ by Marc Dubin on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Greece: Greek Islands Message Board | |||||||||||||
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Greece: Tourism: listing on DMOZ | |||||||||||||
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Greek Islands: ‘Marble-lined Luxury, Flailing Tentacles and Almond Juice’ by Marc Dubin on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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The Guardian Travel site | |||||||||||||
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Health Advice for Travellers: Department of Health | |||||||||||||
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Health Advice for Travellers: World Health Organization (WHO) | |||||||||||||
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Healthy Flying — advice from campaigner Diana Fairechild | |||||||||||||
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Hungary — site of the Hungarian National Tourist Office, New York: enormous & superb | |||||||||||||
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Hungary Tourism — lots of stuff | |||||||||||||
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Hungary: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Hungary: National railways timetable search engine | |||||||||||||
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Hungarian home page | |||||||||||||
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The Hungary Page | |||||||||||||
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Hungary: Hostels in Budapest: Backpackers.hu | |||||||||||||
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Iceland: Hostelling International — information & pictures of all registered hostels in Iceland; news, map, prices, transport, feedback | |||||||||||||
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Iceland Culture | |||||||||||||
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IgoUgo — ‘a community of real people sharing travel experiences’ | |||||||||||||
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The Independent Travel pages: Eastern Europe stories | |||||||||||||
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Insurance: Independent Travellers’ Insurance Services | |||||||||||||
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International Driving Permit: RAC site — you usually need an IDP to drive abroad | |||||||||||||
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International Student Travel Confederation (ISTC) — the first port of call wherever you want to go | |||||||||||||
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Intrepid People — shop, travelogues, ‘resource kit’, forums | |||||||||||||
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In Your Pocket — country guides to Central and Eastern Europe | |||||||||||||
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iPod Traveller — don’t look, listen (plus some photo galleries) | |||||||||||||
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Italy: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Italy: APT Firenze — ‘motore di ricerca turistico’: impressive | |||||||||||||
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Italy: About Florence — non-profit site; lots of stuff | |||||||||||||
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Italian Youth Hostel Association — English available; you must be an HI member to use their hostels | |||||||||||||
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Katowice — official site; only in Polish at present, but English is promised | |||||||||||||
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Kiev Services — a local organisation providing tourist services, including accommodation and visas | |||||||||||||
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Kiev: Orthodox approach — James Meek in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Krakow — official site, including some accommodation | |||||||||||||
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Krakow info — a lot of stuff | |||||||||||||
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Krakow: From markets and musicians to Gothic castles — Sarah Crown in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Latvia: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Latvia: World Travel Guide | |||||||||||||
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Leaning Tower of Pisa | |||||||||||||
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Linguaphone — teach-yourself language courses | |||||||||||||
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Lisbon: The Channels — city guide | |||||||||||||
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Lisbon: ‘Sweeping Views and Smoldering Nightlife’ by Matthew Hancock on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Lisbon: In the Club — Laura Barton in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Lithuania – accommodation: Youth Hostel Filaretai, Vilnius | |||||||||||||
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Lithuania: Vilnius — official city web-site, including photo tour and hostels (lower button) | |||||||||||||
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Lithuania: Vilnius Hardcore — music, clubs &c. | |||||||||||||
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Lithuania: Vilnius Jazz Festival 16-19 September, 2004 | |||||||||||||
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Lonely Planet — main site (above) & travellers’ letters to LP divided by country (below) | |||||||||||||
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Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic): Travelnotes | |||||||||||||
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Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic): Balkan Info | |||||||||||||
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Malta: 0800-Malta — unofficial site: very good | |||||||||||||
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Maps on-line: Multimap — covers much of the world | |||||||||||||
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Maps on-line: Via Michelin — ditto | |||||||||||||
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Message-board — Yahoo group for messages & pics: outgoing group (top) and incoming group. Please join the new one ASAP | |||||||||||||
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Montenegro: Republic of Montenegro — a few bits & pieces | |||||||||||||
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Montenegro: Visit Montenegro — official tourist site | |||||||||||||
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Montenegro: montenet.org — a rag-tag variety of stuff, including mesage-board | |||||||||||||
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Montenegro: Budva — an ancient coastal town | |||||||||||||
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Naples: ‘Just see it and live’ — Stephen Pritchard in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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National Express — express coach travel in Britain; and the Eurolines site is integral with this one | |||||||||||||
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Netherlands / Holland: Hostel Association — 31 hostels across the country | |||||||||||||
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Netherlands / Holland: Stayokay Hostels — a chain of rather expensive hostels in the Netherlands | |||||||||||||
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Netherlands / Holland: ‘It’s Your Choice — Cheese, Tulips, or Amsterdam’ by Matthew Teller on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Netherlands / Holland: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Online Travel (sitemap) | |||||||||||||
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Paris: The Paris Pages | |||||||||||||
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Paris: The Channels | |||||||||||||
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Photo album: People & Places by Galen R. Frysinger | |||||||||||||
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Photo-essays: Travel — Washington Post | |||||||||||||
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P&O Ferries — Dover-Calais, Portsmouth-Bilbao, Portsmouth-Cherbourg, Portsmouth-Le Havre, Hull-Rotterdam, Hull-Zeebrugge | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Coach travel from Britain: Visitor Travel Service — excellent site, though entirely in Polish; this is a coach line, not an agency | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Polish National Tourist Office, London | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Polish National Tourist Office, New York — irritating animations, but more reliable than the above | |||||||||||||
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Travel Poland — if you can’t find any accommodation in our search system above, you might find something here; not much else | |||||||||||||
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Poland: the Polish Trains Page — unofficial site dedicated to train travel in Poland | |||||||||||||
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Poland Now! — a multimedia magazine with articles and images | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Warsaw & Krakow — general comments, no accommodation | |||||||||||||
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Poland: introduction to Warsaw (upper button) and Krakow: Virtual Tourist — mediocre resources: don’t look for a bed here | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Warszawa, Warszawa, Cold and Grey — all about arriving in Warsaw in February with no cash and nowhere booked | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Travel Notes | |||||||||||||
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Poland: Is this the start of the Cool war? — Vijai Maheshwari on the Baltic coast in The Independent | |||||||||||||
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Poland: hostels — information on 156 all-year & 417 summer season hostels, plus 213 camp-sites, but no booking or links | |||||||||||||
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Polo’s Bastards — travel in difficult places: very impressive | |||||||||||||
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Portugal: Travel Notes | |||||||||||||
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Portugal Virtual — guide pages for tourists | |||||||||||||
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Portugal in Site [sic] — official tourism site | |||||||||||||
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Poznan City Guide — excellent all-round introduction; some hostels | |||||||||||||
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Prague & Czech Republic travel and culture links | |||||||||||||
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Railconnection — one stop site for rail passes | |||||||||||||
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Rail Europe — various stuff, including Eurostar; on-line booking | |||||||||||||
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Romania: Foreign Office Travel Advice — including embassy contacts (UK in RO & RO in UK) | |||||||||||||
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Romania.org — the official Romania | |||||||||||||
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Romania — the official web-site for travel and tourism information about Romania (as distinct from above) | |||||||||||||
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Discover Romania — superb site built by students at the University of Missouri | |||||||||||||
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Romania: Photo-tour of Bucharest: Virtourist — unmissable | |||||||||||||
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Romania: Tourism | |||||||||||||
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Romania: ‘Beyond the Impaler’ by David Fagundes on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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Rome: A city restored to its former glory — Louise Nicholson in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Rome: Sandy Hostel — €16 Oct-Mar, €18 Mar-Oct & end-Dec | |||||||||||||
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Rome: Oikos Hostel — small hostel charging €13 + linen | |||||||||||||
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Rome: Pensione Ottaviano — from €18 | |||||||||||||
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Rough Guides — because of R.G.’s new site structure, we can no longer link to individual articles (except Spotlights) | |||||||||||||
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Russian Federation: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Russian Visa Online — excellent, clearly written, unmissable | |||||||||||||
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Russia: Gateway to Russia — culture, news & travel information | |||||||||||||
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Russia: Travel Notes | |||||||||||||
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Russia Travel — official site | |||||||||||||
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Go to Russia | |||||||||||||
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Russian & East European Network Information Center, University of Texas at Austin — big | |||||||||||||
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Russia... & St Petersburg: Lonely Planet | |||||||||||||
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Russia: student fares — page on large Russian travel site including travel advice, visa support & message board | |||||||||||||
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Russian Youth Hostel Association — six hostels in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novgorod; they want dollars | |||||||||||||
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Russia: G&R International — budget accommodation in Moscow & in the country | |||||||||||||
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Russia: ‘Moscow: Gangsters, Gals, Guns and the Gutter Press’ on Rough Guides | |||||||||||||
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East Russia Travel Market — ecotourism in eastern Russia & Siberia | |||||||||||||
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San Gimignano, Tuscany — official site for this UNESCO world heritage town | |||||||||||||
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Serbia & Montenegro: Foreign & Commonwealth Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Serbia: Travel Notes | |||||||||||||
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National Tourist Organisation of Serbia | |||||||||||||
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About Siena — non-profit site related to About Florence (q.v.) | |||||||||||||
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Skiing: GoSki (top) and Avalanches | |||||||||||||
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Slovakia resources rent a room on the Czech Republic page | |||||||||||||
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Slovenia & Ljubljana— travel and culture resources | |||||||||||||
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Spain: Ibercultura — substantial | |||||||||||||
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Cyberspain — wear dark glasses. Delightfully eccentric English | |||||||||||||
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Spain: Andalucia | |||||||||||||
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Spain: Toledo — a unmissable private page | |||||||||||||
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Spain: Toledo: Mass Tourism — Paul Miles in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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STA Travel — cheap & discount student travel & flights | |||||||||||||
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Szczecin: official web-site | |||||||||||||
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Talinn: Going for a Song — Douglas Rogers in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Tblisi: Georgia on My Mind — Mark Espiner in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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TEFL resources | |||||||||||||
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Teletext Holidays — ‘loads of cheap deals and offers on holidays and flights’ — nothing too far off the beaten track | |||||||||||||
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Tibet: Peter M. Geiser’s Internet Travel Guide | |||||||||||||
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Time Out — covers foreign cities too | |||||||||||||
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Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory | |||||||||||||
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Travel Guides | |||||||||||||
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Travel Library — personal travelogues, trip reports and worldwide tourist information | |||||||||||||
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Travel Notes — a big, comprehensive site, even offering a barrow-load of world newspapers | |||||||||||||
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Travelocity — airline tickets, hotel accommodation, car hire, package holidays | |||||||||||||
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Travelogue – Eastern Europe 2004: Arjan den Boer & Hilleke Oskamp | |||||||||||||
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Travelogue: Meike — central & eastern Europe & all over the world | |||||||||||||
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Travoholic’s Guide to Europe — superb private site with hostels listing & one or two reviews | |||||||||||||
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Trip.com — travel news and a flight tracker | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine: Kiev City Guide — lots of information (no hostels) | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine: Eastern European Travel — coach services to Ukraine; English available | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine: Photo Gallery | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine Travel — on-line travel agent: advice & visa services, no hostels or coaches | |||||||||||||
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Ukraine: Unipress — information; no hostels | |||||||||||||
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Ukrainian Youth Hostels Association — English available; offers ‘Extreme tour: dead Chernobyl’ | |||||||||||||
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US National Centre for Infectious Diseases — a comprehensive guide to what you could catch, where, why and with whom | |||||||||||||
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Uzbekistan: Foreign Office travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Venice (I lost my heart in...) — John Julius Norwich in The Guardian | |||||||||||||
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Vilnius — ‘One of Europe’s oddest and most decadent cities’: Jonathan Heawood in The Observer | |||||||||||||
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Visa Service — arranges visas & passports (UK) | |||||||||||||
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Wanadoo travel pages — bang in the middle of the mainstream, but worth a look for general travel advice | |||||||||||||
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Explore Warsaw — good introduction | |||||||||||||
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Warsaw / Warszawa Hotels: Itisnet — good | |||||||||||||
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Warsaw: Travel Online | |||||||||||||
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Wanderlust — a travel magazine web-site | |||||||||||||
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WCities — information from locals | |||||||||||||
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What’s On When — an events guide covering the globe: obviously not exhaustive, but amazing | |||||||||||||
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Wroclaw — official city guide: useful but dry | |||||||||||||
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Cactus TEFL — TEFL course admissions service; aims at beginners | |||||||||||||
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China TEFL Network — if you really want to work in a country with a totalitarian régime, here’s your chance | |||||||||||||
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CZ Training — the company is based in New Jersey, the course is taught in Kolín, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||
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Dave’s ESL Café | |||||||||||||
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EBC International TEFL Certificate — course in Madrid | |||||||||||||
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Education Guardian TEFL section | |||||||||||||
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Elementary English Grammar Book: Eurotemp | |||||||||||||
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ELT Web — substantial index of ELT resources | |||||||||||||
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English International — ‘information and advice on teaching English overseas’ | |||||||||||||
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English Job Maze — still rather new but very professional and well designed | |||||||||||||
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ESL Employment — US-centric; a mess | |||||||||||||
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ESL Pages — US site: news, jobs, resources for teachers & students, other stuff | |||||||||||||
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Europa Pages — EFL directory; link is to UK section | |||||||||||||
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Expats.cz — for anglophones living in Prague | |||||||||||||
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Handouts Online — English worksheets for EFL / ESL teachers | |||||||||||||
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International TEFL Certificate (ITC) — offers an internationally-recognised 120-hour, four-week TEFL Certificate course in Prague, Barcelona or Madrid | |||||||||||||
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International TEFL Teacher Training — on-line course | |||||||||||||
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Internet TESL Journal — monthly web journal
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i-to-i — (upper button) big site covering TEFL & volunteering (lower button) on-line & weekend courses | |||||||||||||
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Jobs: Edufind | |||||||||||||
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Online TEFL — on-line course | |||||||||||||
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Prague Schools — four-week intensive TEFL/TESOL course | |||||||||||||
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Sarah & John’s TEFL Pit-Stop — free teaching resources | |||||||||||||
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School for International Training, Barcelona — purveyors of a four-week TESOL course | |||||||||||||
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TEFL Board — a reference list of teacher training centres; statistics about each centre’s training programmes, curriculum, staff, programme length, materials, qualification or certification offered &c. | |||||||||||||
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tefl.com — career portal for English language teaching | |||||||||||||
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TEFL International (i) — courses | |||||||||||||
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TEFL International (ii) — ‘one of the world’s largest TESOL/TEFL course providers (and the largest in Asia)’ | |||||||||||||
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tefl.net — courses, jobs, forums | |||||||||||||
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TEFL Teachers’ Resource — all sorts of stuff | |||||||||||||
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TEFL Web Journal — ‘a free, web-based forum for adult level teachers, teacher trainers & researchers world-wide’ | |||||||||||||
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TESOL Courses Worldwide — on-line and weekend courses; part of i-to-i (q.v.) | |||||||||||||
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Cotswold Outdoor — outdoor clothing, climbing and camping equipment | |||||||||||||
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GPS: hand-held sat-nav units at Cotswold (top button), Field & Trek and Gear Zone | |||||||||||||
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