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The Velocity issue

How you travel is just as salient as where you travel. Will you be getting around by bullet train, slow boat, skateboard or elephant? Do you want to experience new scenes as a shaken kaleidoscope of colour and movement, or a leisurely time-lapse blossoming? Check out how our travellers roll.

Need speed? - full-throttle travel

Takin' it slow - rose-sniffing trips

My way or the highway - alternative modes of travel

Can you feel it? - reliving the feel of the road

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Need speed?

If you think travelling at anything less than fifth speed really isn't travelling at all, then you'll be on the same track as Taiwan's high-speed rail or the guys doing some hard-core, high-speed mountain biking in Europe.

For a thrill without the threat of broken bones, take the free two-hour tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and its Klystron Gallery which, at two miles long, is the world's longest building. Or if you want your kicks with a side serve of rock, head to Florida and get on board the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, where you belt through a virtual Tinseltown with the force of an F-14, all in the name of making it to an Aerosmith backstage party.

And the ultimate soundtrack for travellers like you? The thrashing majesty of Husker Du's Land Speed Record.

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	Austria - A sumptuous feast without end.
	Bulgaria - Bars, bears and Black Sea beaches.
	Mongolia - Saddle up for some big sky.
	Norway - Chill out on a husky sled, warm up with aquavit.
	Poland - A country revving into revival.

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Takin' it slow

If you've got the time, why not take it? Let the road unfold at a pace you can savour. Make friends with an elephant and take a languorous trek through the top of the trees, slide down the river to Dakar on a 1920s paddle steamer or cycle from Paris to Cairo.

Of course, when it comes to slow travel, nothing beats a 24-hour journey that ends in the fragrant hills of Darjeeling.
You a convert to the mosey? Amble on in to this debate about cycle tours - flat chat or freewheel?

My way or the highway

Why stick to planes, trains and automobiles when you could be grooving around on husky sleds or paragliding to work? Brush up against some of the more death-defying modes of transport, think outside the wheel for some of the most unusual ways to get around or see how the most devout pilgrims make it from A to B - one revolution at a time. And if you're over using your skateboard for tricks, why not use it to commute through Bangalore or get home from a party in New York?

Olympic savings

Those seconds are ticking down to the Beijing Olympics - you're going to need to get a guidebook, cheap flights, accommodation in Beijing and tours in China.

The Olympics don't flutter your pennant? What about a 25% discount off selected East- and Southern Africa trips or free Gorilla permits?

Can you feel it?

The sense of motion is one of the travel memories you can't stick in a photo album. The freaky bounce of zorbing in New Zealand, the clammy rocking of a crowded Bangkok bus, the hypnotising hum of the open road - hell, sometimes you even get a little nostalgic for the pukey threat of motion sickness.

If you don't have the stomach for those neck-snapping theme park thrill-rides, there are places like the Life Science Centre in Newcastle (UK) where you can get on a motion simulator that, among other things, lets you 'feel' what it's like to score a goal at St James' Park and bungee jump from the Tyne Bridge. All the thrills, none of the crazy bad hair.