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NEWSLETTER 12, July 13 2019

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Kipling monkeys: Next week we continue our hotels coverage with a visit to the Oberoi Cecil, a comfortable country house-style property transplanted to the foothills of the Himalayas. It’s in Shimla in northern India, and stands on the site of Rudyard Kipling’s former home. Amid all the luxury and the attentive service, there’s one thing you have to watch out for – the risk of monkeys getting in through a window and trashing your room!

Bonjour! Ni hao! Guten tag! As an English-language website, naturally the majority of our readers are native English speakers. However, thanks to Google Analytics, we know that a surprising number have other main languages. Last week alone, the other languages included Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese.

Endeavour encounter: Afaranwide’s Colin Simpson grew up at the time of the Moon landings, and has remained interested in space travel ever since. The upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, together with a visit to the space shuttle Endeavour in a Los Angeles museum, prompted some thoughts on the subject.

”In the Sixties, as the US closed in on the Moon with successive flights and then triumphantly reached its surface, human space exploration felt like the future,” he wrote in a post published this week. “But today, as we look back 50 years to that first Moon landing and spacecraft have become museum exhibits, it seems to belong to the past.”

Down on the camel farm: Our second new post features a gallery of photos taken during a chance stop-off at a camel farm deep in the Saudi Arabian desert. Gulf countries run camel beauty contests with huge cash prizes.

How we’re doing: We’ve received a number of inquiries about placing adverts on Afaranwide. We’re not currently accepting ads as we concentrate on developing the site and adding content. But it’s very pleasing and encouraging that, just a couple of months after we launched, businesses already see Afaranwide as an attractive platform for showcasing their goods and services.

Our new Home Page quote – it's an Asian proverb that kind of gets to the heart of it for us.

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