The Most Dangerous Places To Surf… The Web!

Travel News — September 2, 2010 at 12:15 pm

If you find yourself blogging about your trip or sending an email update to family and friends if you happen to be visiting Turkey or Russia, you may want to be a little more vigilant than normal. According to TechCrunch and sourcewire.com, these are the two riskiest countries for surfing on the Internet. The study — conducted by security company AVG — compiled data from over 100 million PCs in 144...

The Most Dangerous Places To Surf… The Web!

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Fake Booze Alert: Knockoff Aussie Wines Found in China

September 2, 2010 | Australia, China, Travel News | Read More

Emanuel Skorpos runs a small winery in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. When he heard from Hong Kong’s Wine Protection Group that counterfeit versions of his wine and other Australian wines were being sold in China, he jetted off to investigate. Sure enough, Skorpos found knockoff versions...

Brit Refused Re-Entry Because His Face Doesn’t Match His Passport

September 2, 2010 | Travel News | Read More

Unlike yearly school portraits or your profile picture on Facebook, government-issued identification doesn’t always show the natural progression of one’s age. While the latter are updated every year (and in the case of the highly active Facebook user, once a week), driver’s license...

Electric VW Beetle Making Historic Trans-Canadian Trip

September 1, 2010 | Canada, Eco-Travel, Offbeat, Travel News | Read More

Last week a group of students from the University of British Columbia left Vancouver in an electrified 1972 Volkswagen Beetle on a 4,000 mile road trip to the other side of Canada. The UBC Electric Car Club members are hoping to not only set a record for the fastest coast-to-coast trans-Canadian trip...

Stiff-Necked Competition at the UK Backward Running Championships

September 1, 2010 | Travel News | Read More

It’s the hottest new trend in the running world: backwards running or ‘retrorunning,’ is the sport of, well, running backwards. You’ve walked backwards before, and maybe even did a quick backward jog as a joke. But in your mind’s eye you could see yourself losing your rhythm,...