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Travel Practicalities
Travel Practicalities: Advice
Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Consular Division
Official travel advice on individual countries.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/
Travel Practicalities: Bookshops
Stanfords
Search Stanfords' excellent catalogue for travel books and maps - by continent, area, country and major cities or by title etc. There are also sections on guides for specialist holidays and travel and maps and more... Full details and description given for each item and on-line ordering.
http://www.stanfords.co.uk
Travel Practicalities: Currency
Currency Converter
Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ ucc/ full.shtml
Travel Practicalities: Distances and Time
timeanddate.com
Find the time for any country in the world as well as calendar information.
http://www.timeanddate.com
World Clock
Check the time in major cities round the world.
http://www.timeanddate.com/ worldclock/
Travel Practicalities: Embassies
Embassies
Embassies
http://www.embassyworld.com/ embassy/ directory.htm
Travel Practicalities: Health
BBC Travel Health
Health advice for the traveller and links to other useful sites.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ health/ travel
Fit For Travel
Select a health travel topic or a country to find out more about health risks and immunisations.
http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/
Health Advice for Travellers
A Department of Health site which provides the latest health news for travellers, a country by country disease and immunisation checklist, advice about major diseases, information on how to obtain an E111 form and details of reciprocal health agreements with other countries and advice about travelling to countries without reciprocal health agreements.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/ PolicyAndGuidance/ HealthAdviceForTravellers/ fs/ en
International Travel and Health
A WHO (World Health Organization) site which offers advice for travellers: health risks and precautions, travel by air, environmental health risks, infectious diseases etc. You can also search for diseases or health risks by country.
http://www.who.int/ ith/ index.html
Travel Practicalities: Passports and Visas
Identity and Passport Service
The Identity and Passport Service.
http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/
World Travel Guide
Useful site for finding passport/visa information. Select by country and then select 'Passport/Visa' to find out requirements. The site covers all aspects of travel.
http://www.wtgonline.com
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