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| Travel Notes Blog |
| Where to travel next? Find travel and tourist information and insider tips on every country in the world. Web site reviews, original photo-stories, maps and national anthems. The Travel Notes Blog is a part of TravelNotes.org - The Online Guide to Travel. |
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| Down at The Planet |
| 2008-06-04 07:48:00 |
My apologies for the on-off situation with Travel Notes lately.Our server is located at The Planet (Houston); where there have been major problems over the last few days. I believe they had an electrical blow-out.Not only were the servers affected with massive down-time (like two days) but the DNS servers were troubled too.Then just when things started to propagate again, the generator failed.The sites are working again (for now) but I was up until 4am trying to find another host. I've made a few contacts but still haven't moved anywhere.I need reliabilty fast, because apart from the TravelNotes.org website I also have a number of other domains on the server - 1800-WorldCup.com, 1800-Olympics.com, Travel-Write.com, 1800-France.com, 1800-UStravel.com and 1800-Canada.com among them.We did ha...
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| Website Hosting |
| 2008-04-26 06:08:00 |
Just when I was feeling content that we had almost renovated all the destination pages and checked the dead links, the hosting service we used for 1800-Counties.com, Meta-Travel.com, 1800-Olympics.com and 1800-WorldCup.com websites pulled out of their data centre and closed down operations.Sadly, although they had a notice on their homepage, I only found out about the closure the day everything went dead; having been on the road a lot lately.Rather than spend time looking for another host, I've moved these properties onto the main Travel Notes server.The Olympics and World Cup pages are static HTML, so that wasn't a problem to get back online, but the database tables for the favourite countries travel articles, meta-travel forums and topsites were lost.While the travel forum was becoming t...
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| The Guide to Travel Guides |
| 2008-04-02 18:37:00 |
Travel Guides are a Godsend and a tremendous amount of research has gone into them, but they can be a little patronising at times.Don't cling to them religiously, as many travellers do. They are not the bibles that they are made out to be, and are often out of date before they are published.Travel Guidebooks.To get the most out of guidebooks, use them sparingly for basic orientation, then discover the towns and cities on your own.The information on museums and places of interest are great when all other signs look foreign.But when it comes to hotels and restaurants, every one to their own taste and budget. Believe me, the gems are never in black and white for all to see. If word gets out, the bargains rise in price with popularity and the 'recommended' places are usually full of foreigners...
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| Travel Notes - April 2008 |
| 2008-04-02 05:40:00 |
The Africa section is now updated, we just have to hunt out the dead links.While doing the link-checking on the North America pages I realised that the Canada page was getting too long and looking scruffy.It really was time to split Canada up into Territories and Provinces - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory.When I get the time, I'll have to split those pages up even further but things are looking better organised now; although some of the pages need a little more content.I'll be working on that.Work in ProgressThe time spent on the Canada project means that the Airlines and Airports sections were pushed back in the line list of things to do.I wa...
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| F1 Travel Guide - 2008 |
| 2008-03-13 13:17:00 |
With the Formula 1 season revving up for the 2008 start this weekend in Australia, I know I've left my F1 Travel Guide a little late.But the article has been totally updated with all this season's race fixtures and all the links checked and altered where necessary.There are two new street circuits to visit this season: Valencia (August 24th) and Singapore (for night racing, on September 28th).I fancy making the trip down to Valencia myself but don't think I'll manage (or afford) to travel to Singapore the following month; unless anyone feels generous enought to sponsor me.Hopefully I'll get around to updating the Monaco GP article soon.If you want to travel to one of the Grand Prix races this season, read the article.Technorati: F1, Grand Prix, Formula One...
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| Tourism For Tomorrow |
| 2008-03-05 04:50:00 |
The finalists for the 2008 'Tourism for Tomorrow Awards' have been announced by the World Travel & Tourism Council.The 12 finalists showcase some of the world's leading examples in sustainable tourism development; from among a pool of 150 exceptional applications, from over 40 countries.Destination AwardBlackstone Valley, USA:Since 1985 the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council has been a force behind the rebirth of the Blackstone River Valley, Rhode Island USA.Rinjani Trek Ecotourism Programme, Indonesia:The Rinjani Trek Ecotourism Programme - located in Lombok, Indonesia - began in 1999; to strengthen conservation and to ensure that communities on the boundary of the National Park benefit from tourism revenues.Town of Bouctouche, Canada:Bouctouche was a typical, coastal Maritime village ...
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| Travel Notes Linking Policy |
| 2008-03-04 07:40:00 |
When I started Travel Notes, in 1997, it was a pleasure linking to other travel sites that expanded on our content. But with the explosion of the Internet, every little 'room for rent' and 'tour guide' is trying to promote their 'business' without giving anything back or, even worse, trying to get their list of affiliate links noticed.There are no automated robots adding the links at Travel Notes, so reviewing websites is rather time-consuming; especially as we have to trawl through a lot of rubbish in our inbox to get to the gems.Therefore, the Add URLs now go here first; to better seperate the wheat from the chaff - when I have the spare time.We don't do 'link exchanges' at Travel Notes and don't like linking to websites with lists of links totally irrelevant to their content.We do still...
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| March 2008 Update |
| 2008-03-04 04:54:00 |
As many of you may have noticed, we're now curating travel videos on Travel Notes.Some of the videos I've seen are enlightening and very professionally produced, some are little more than company adverts and some are really quite personal.Deciding which videos to keep and which to drop is never easy as what doesn't work for me might still interest you. Hopefully the community can help me decide.Video Reviewers:If you like to travel and are interested in the moving image, you can now join Travel Notes as a video reviewer and enlighten the community with your comments and general insights into travel and video content.We've also added a cruise section to Travel Notes, something I've been meaning to do for ages, but still need to expand on all the cruise ship pages.Work in ProgressSadly, what...
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| Destination Videos |
| 2008-02-29 03:39:00 |
After some of the feedback to our Video Blogging post, I'll comply with your requests to add the destination video previews; so that you can easily grab the video content for your own websites - by clicking on the 'embed this' link.I'll add the Outdoor Activity Video previews later.Michel.Technorati: Destination Videos, Travel Videos, Video Blogging...
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| Prince Harry at War in Afghanistan |
| 2008-02-28 14:12:00 |
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth II's grandson and third in line to the throne, has been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.View the breaking news on video....Prince Harry Fighting in Afghanistan.Prince Harry at War in Afghanistan.Prince Harry a 'Taliban Target'....
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