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Originally Posted by Dick
My last really big trip was in 1995 and I reckon that era was just about the last time you could do a trip completely "internet free"...
...I know t'internet is fantastic but old fashioned hand written letters on whatever paper was avavilable at the time are fantastically evocative of times past
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Surely you still can? You just don't turn on your computer. I know what you mean about the letters, my mum dug out a whole load of letters/cards etc I'd sent when I backpacked after school for a year. Fascinating to see, I can't imagine her doing the same with e-mails.
BUT, I'll also go along with the OP and say Google does seem to be getting handier and handier for travellers. Someone might leap on and tell us how they track our every internet move, but I'm not that bothered if Google want to know or not. I've only just discovered Googles Language Tools, and their slightly better than Babelfish translation. I had an exchange of e-mail with someone in Hebrew a couple of weeks ago and only on the fifth one did they actually realise I couldn't speak any Hebrew at all.
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