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Rome: 10 Infamous crime scenes

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Map and videos of famous assassinations and attempts, kidnappings and a heisted corpse.
For over 2700 years Rome has been the stage of countless important events. Walking through Rome, one could wonder about past residents that have walked its well trodden streets, the palaces, which once housed royalty, but are now ignored and the historic and [...]

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Tags: Europe · Interesting · Italy · Rome

Kris Mole: Europe on the cheapest, for cancer research

February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hello Travelers!
Kris Mole, who is traveling Europe completely broke to raise awareness and money for breast cancer, started what he calls, “The Great Euro Freebie Challenge” on November 1st.  To date he has raised 83% of his ₤1500 goal.  Kris started this trip without, he says, a cent in his pocket and has depended on [...]

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Tags: Europe · Interesting

It’s Super Fat Tuesday!

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Hello Travelers!
iKangaroo wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast for that matter, a fantastic and safe Mardi Gras. Also, we would like to thank our friend for sending the King Cake, it is delicious. A King Cake, for those who don’t know, is another spill [...]

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Tags: Interesting · New Orleans

Australia Day 2008: Congrats Australians of the Year

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Good Day Travelers!
It’s January 26, 2008, so do you know what that means?  That’s right!  Australia Day it is.  The annual summer holiday is when four Australians of the Year are presented with glass trophies created by artist Kristin McFarlane.  The blue glass trophies, which take about a month each to make,  have Australian icons [...]

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Tags: Australia · Interesting

Dan: Diving in Thailand, chilling in Cambodia

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Good Day Travelers!
OK, so got all my dive training done in Koh Tao, was sad to leave that place, amazing people and diving. Diving highlights included my dive group being surrounded by 3 circling sharks (some conjecture over whether they were Reef or Bull sharks), me trying to be clever and do an inverted [...]

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Tags: Cambodia · Europe · Interesting · Travel expert

Kris Mole’s Great Euro Freebie Challenge

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Hello Travelers!
One of our friends in Rome, Italy turned us on to Kris Mole, self-professed slacker now turned fund raiser, from England who is traveling to each European capital to raise money for cancer in the memory of his late aunty, Susan Proto.  Here is the catch, on November 1st Kris turned up in Stockholm, Sweden [...]

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Tags: England · Europe · France · Germany · Interesting · Paris

Pope John Paul II “The Great” seen in flames

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

The Vatican News Service is saying that this photograph, via Herald Sun, taken in Poland is the real deal.  London’s Daily Mail reported that the Vatican’s news station manager Father Jarek Cielecki, also a friend of Pope John Paul II, traveled to Poland after hearing about the photos which were taken during a ceremony to commemorate the second [...]

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Tags: Interesting · Italy · Poland · Rome · Vatican

Rome: fountain water is safe and healthy!

August 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Ciao Travelers!
Follow this advice to be a green traveler, save money and the frustration of ordering the wrong kind of water. Yes, there is more then one kind of water.

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Tags: Eco friendly · Europe · Interesting · Italy · Rome · Vatican