Monthly Archives: August 2007

Airport Ratings

Flagxo is quite a useful service for finding out information about the facilities and services at worldwide airports – created by other travellers.
I found it whilst searching for nearby (non-airport) restaurants at Newark Airport (NJ).

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LIP Travelling the Eco Way

Here are 5 resources to help you book eco-friendly holidays, journeys & trips…
Eco-Orbitz
ResponsibleTravel.com
Interpid Travel
Travel Roots
Travel Tribes

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

For those of you who are concerned about your carbon emissions & reducing your carbon footprint, the site Zero Footprint contains some excellent resources & tools to help you do so…including a pledge to join Team Zero to reduce your footprint by 10% in 1 year.

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Emergency Contacts Protocol

Tip from: Micro Hacks for Travel- a Potpourri – lifehack.org.
There’s actually an internationally recognised way of putting your emergency number(s) into your phone: ICE (in case of emergency). ASAIK this is used by emergency services as well as individuals — certainly in the UK — so I would encourage everyone to use it.
So, put into [...]

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LIP Injuries & Illnesses

After 5 months on the road and now back in the UK for a short while, we have managed to survive our LIP adventure so far, relatively unscathed.
After many flights with all those dirty germs, multiple contact with all those foreign ‘bodies’ and several shocks to our systems, here’s a reckoning of the scrapes & [...]

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