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The Independent on Sunday/ Bradt Travel-Writing Competition 2009

By Mark | Published: April 23, 2009

MapVivo users are great travel writers, and we love reading all about your journeys.
So, as a group of talented writers you might be interested to know that our friends at Bradt Travel Guides are running a great competition for travel writers offering you the chance to win a exciting holiday for two in Colombia. The [...]

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The Twitchhiker on Mapness

By Mark | Published: March 17, 2009

Englishman Paul Smith (aka The Twitchhiker) began a pioneering quest at the beginning of this month: To see how far around the world he can travel relying solely on the goodwill of people using Twitter.
Paul’s trip will raise money for charity: water for which he is seeking sponsorship as he travels from point to [...]

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£1 to Use the Toilet on an Aircraft?

By Mark | Published: March 8, 2009

I missed this one last week, but AP are reporting a story that was widely picked up about Ryan Air boss Michael O’Leary’s comments that Ryan Air could consider charging passengers a fee of £1 to use the toiled on board it’s aircraft.
From AP’s release:
Politicians and analysts agreed that the man who pioneered charging [...]

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