Tell the boss you will be gone for awhile. Pack your bag, ask the neighbor to pick up your mail and newspapers and reboot the computer. We are about to depart on a trip around the world - thanks to our microprocessors and the internet!

Never has the age old saying "It's a small world" been truer. With a click of the mouse and the blink of an eye we will jump from Andorra to Zimbabwe. We stop off at the Namale Plantation Resort on Fiji and enjoy the laser sailing and croquet for an hour or two. Then, if we fancy, we take a look at the dinner menu of the world-famous Turtle Island Resort before jumping back on board our cyber express.

Ok, so all this traveling is in our minds eye. I bet you get the idea anyway. The internet provides us with the means by which through our imaginations and our computers we can go places and experience things the vast majority of us could only dream of. Never before in the history of mankind has so much information been available. All hype aside, these are remarkable times we live in. We are nothing short of incredibly lucky!

With all that in mind, what we would like to do this month is hopscotch around the globe and the internet. We will provide links to some of the most obscure places on earth. France, Germany, USA would be too easy - what we really hope to do is highlight the more obscure. Be forewarned, some of these may not be the friendliest places on earth for the foreigner, so before venturing out from behind the computer and booking the airline ticket you may be well advised to check your local government's travel advisories. Let the journey begin...