What the...?

• Berkeley`s Foreign Language Resources aspires to be a `quality only" listing.
• Foreign Languages for Travelers works like a multilingual phrasebook with sound files to aid pronunciation.
• World2World has language translating dictionaries for over a 150 languages.

Weather

• Wunderground  has five-day forecasts for 800 cities around the world.
• Weather doesn`t get much funkier than Intellicast`s World Wide Weather Forecasts.
• If you`re not heading off for another six months, World Climate can tell you the average temperature and rainfall for any time of the year just about anywhere in the world.

Money

• The Full Universal Currency Concerter contains every known world currency.
• The One-Stop Shop`s Travellers` Check List has details regarding import and export restrictions on currencies.
• The American Express and MasterCard/Cirrus locators have various snazzy ways of helping you find their offices and ATMs around the world.

Travel Insurance

• WORLD NOMADS: Backpacker Travel Insurance -  are specialist travel insurance providers catering only to Backpackers and Independent Travellers.  Backed by one of the world`s largest financial giants, Allianz, WORLD NOMADS offers clients a `Best of Both Worlds` confidence.  Knowing the Backpacker market intimately they provide a product that caters to the specific needs of Backpackers and, with Allianz, are backed by one of the world`s most secure financial institutions with assets under management in excess of one trillion euros.

Internet Cafes

• Cybercafes.com contains a database of 4211 internet cafes in 149 countries.
• Cybercaptive  has listings for 6062 internet cafes in 168 countries. 

Maps

• Mapblast everyone needs a little direction.
• Mapquest may not be immediately user-friendly, but once you get a handle on its interactive atlas you can zoom in at street level to a lot of the world`s cities.
• With over 500 destinations in its database the Distance Calculator will count the kilometres for you as the crow flies.

TIME

• If you`re not sure if it`s time to wakeup or go to sleep, check out Local Times Around the World.
• This has a  map that`s nicely subdivided into  World Time Zones.