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Happy Halloween from Geeky Traveller!

If you’re a fan of the holiday and enjoy being a little bit scared, here are some great sites to help you plan a spooky vacation for yourself.
- GhostTraveller lists a whole series of haunted road trips you can plan out if you’d like to be scared by more than bad drivers and weak diner coffee.
- Lucky Travels has a list of some haunted castles in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany. Can you visit a castle that’s haunted by Mary Queen of Scots or one haunted by Merlin? Try it and see what happens!
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If you have plans to fly British Airways you should be aware of a brand new service that they offer, just launched today. British Airways now offers mobile check-in with global access. It’s a service that is also available in 11 different languages so far, which is a step up from any other similar services.
Designed especially for business travelers (but also handy for vacationers!), you simply use your mobile device to log in at http://www.ba.com/mobile. Check out the British Airways timetable, then choose the seats you want, and even check in.
A press release stated:
“We are proud …read more

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Everyone knows you can find just about everything you ever need to know by looking to Google for guidance. However, sometimes the problem is you get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information that gets thrown at you in the results. I found a great listing of quick ways to find what you need by typing in simple requests in the Google search bar.

For instance, type in your airline and flight number (for example, “united 959″) and the first result will give you a link to track the flight BUT it also tells you right away what its …read more

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Over time I’ve noted that readers here at Geeky Traveller are pretty split down the middle with about half of you being vacation people and half being business travelers. For the latter half of you, you should be interested to know that our network, b5media, has launched Bizzia.com.

Bizzia is a fantastic business-related portal that covers everything from business news to tips to breaking stories. The portal pulls in information from 30 amazing b5media business blogs, all in one location for your convenience so you can keep up to date on whatever business stories are important to you, whether …read more

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Now that just about everyone owns a digital camera, taking pictures of your travels is really easy. There’s no film to buy or develop, and depending on the size of your camera’s memory card, you might be all but unlimited in how many times you can take a shot of the Grand Canyon or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
But what do you do when you get home? Do you want to keep them on your computer’s hard drive? Or do you want to have beautiful prints to put in an album to show friends and family?

With the …read more

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You can’t always count on finding someone to point you in the right direction when you’re visiting another city and need to get around – if there’s also a language barrier, it can be all the more difficult.
Metropoliphone is an iPhone application that loads the device up with an enormous collection of subway, bus, and train maps from cities all around the world. The maps are completely free to access, provided by each city’s transportation service.
With Metropoliphone you can get maps for over 60 different cities in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, mostly in PDF format. …read more

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Now this is totally my kind of hotel! The Malibu Beach Inn has gone tech-crazy and when they hand you over access to your room, they also give you (on loan!) an IPod Touch. However, it’s not so their guests can rock out to MP3s. The Touch is loaded with Hotel Evolution which is a multi-application service that allows users to order in some room service, set up a dinner reservation, book a massage in the spa, send out dry cleaning, contact the concierge, request house keeping, set a wake up call, look up night life entertainment, …read more

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SoSauce.com is another fun site that combines travel with social networking. Their Travel section allows you to share your travel stories with other visitors.
In the My Trips area, you can view you global footprint that shows a map of all the places you’ve been. Mine is woefully empty in comparison to the overall size of the planet. I’ll have to work on filling it out more! You can also show off your trips by posting photos, travel journals, tips you picked up (like where to go to get the best deals on local goods), reviews …read more

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I’m the queen of falling asleep when I travel. I can sleep pretty much anywhere – in a car, a train, a plane, a bus, the subway. If it’s moving, I’m quite possibly slumbering unless I’m actively engaged in a conversation or a book. I may or may not be mildly narcoleptic!
Have you ever fallen asleep and missed your destination though? If you’re traveling by train or bus, and you’re particularly exhausted, you might end up snoozing right through your stop and wake up 50 miles away from where you meant to be. …read more

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Traveling is fun and a great way to gain experience and understanding of other cultures and countries. However, traveling alone can be a little risky, depending on your destination. The Ila Personal Alarm is a device that will let out a sound much like a woman screaming to help you out if you get into trouble. Shaped much like a cell phone, it has a pin that you pull out the same way you would with a grenade (not that I have any experience with grenades!). When you do and then press the button, the …read more

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