After the postings of William Sutcliffe's generalisation of backpackers. I thing it is necessary to inform everybody that there is many kinds of Backpackers. Here is a few exemplars

Party-travellers ( also called beach-travellers):the main reason to travel for party-travellers is to party, and meeting like mind people of the opposite sex, girls can be recognised on, having packed high-heeled shoes in their backpack.
Age: 17-25
Preferred guidebook: lets go
Favourite destinations: Greek islands, southern Thailand, east-coast Australia

Real-travellers: look like they have been travelling for years, even if they only have travelled for 2 weeks.
Age: all ages
Preferred guidebook: do not use guidebooks, hate them, except when then they are borrowing yours
Favourite destinations: to boldly go where no travellers have gone before, to such places as Bali and Thailand

Working-travellers: the people you meet, who have spend 98% of the trip in the same town.
Age: 18-27
Preferred guidebook: work your way around the world
Favourite destinations: London, Sydney

He-man travellers: you can find him near a war-zone or bicycling across Australia without water (he is the guy you meet drinking tap water in India)
Age: all ages but always male
Preferred guidebook: Fielding's The World's Most Dangerous Places
Favourite destinations: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Johannesburg by night

posted in the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree years ago

En lavprisfly søgemaskine + en liste over alle lavpris flyselskaber i verden. og et site med lavprisfly nyheder.

Tholos, named after a type of circular ancient Greek temple, consists of a large round screen. The London Tholos would be linked to an identical one in Vienna. Through them, people in both cities will be able to see and hear each other in real time. The cylindrical structure contains technology that simultaneously transmits and receives high definition live moving images. People standing in front of London's Tholos would see a wrap-around picture of the scene in Vienna. At the same time, a similar London image is displayed in the Austrian capital. Citizens in both countries would be able to face each other and talk via an array of directional microphones and loudspeakers. There are ambitious plans to expand the system into a network linking at least 16 European cities by 2008, and then others in North America and Asia. from Smart Mobs

Update oktober 22, 2003: The company hopes to mount Tholos systems in landmark locations in six European cities: London; Vienna; Paris; Rome; Warsaw, Poland; and Copenhagen. Link to Wired Artikel and link to Tholos Systems:

Bteyedr det ikke noegt i hivklen rkækefløge bgotsavrene såtr i et ord, det esente vgitgie er at det frøtse og sdiste bgosatv i odret er på de rtete padlser. Rseten kan lngie vloaypk men du vil satdig vræe i snatd til at lsæe det. Det er frodi den mnenesekilge hejrne ikke lesær hevr bgotsav, men odret som en hleehd.