Lonely Planet - SubWWWay - Pack Your Brain

SubWWWay - Pack Your Brain

Anyone with the jitters should check out the US State Dept Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets. Written by an over-protective Uncle Sam, these `sheets' provide useful information on the awful risk US citizens run when they undertake to leave the home of the brave.
The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office provides more succinct and restrained Travel Advice targeted at British citizens, but most of it is relevant to all travellers.
The Nolo.com Self-Help Law Center's Trouble Free Travel Advice has advice on keeping you out of trouble with the law and shonky operators while on the road.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade has useful snippets in its Consular Travel Advice.
Have a look at Tick-it Tees Travel Site for their links, toolbox and their Travel Fact Grab Bag.
If you're pushed for time and already half way out the door, take a look at Travel Basics for a concise run through the important things, some of which you may have overlooked.

Whatever your nationality, wherever you're headed, travel.com.au's Check Visa Requirements will put you straight on the paperwork you need.
The Embassy Page has a fairly good hotlink listing of embassies and consulates around the world
The Electronic Embassy has hotlink listings of embassies with a presence mainly in the USA.

Where to get online tourist information points to online and real-world tourist offices for 150 countries.
This Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory concentrates on government tourist office addresses.

For a truly comprehensive picture of the state of the world's health, the latest press releases, stats and info on nasty bugs like Ebola, check out the site of the World Health Organization.
The WHO also has a lovely Disease Outbreaks register.
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention site goes into much detail on health risks and recent epidemics the world over.
Shoreland's Travel Health Online provides detailed information on more than 220 countries.
Princeton University's Outdoor Action Program site concentrates on Altitude Sickness. For more info, try the High Altitude Medicine Guide.
British Airways Travel Clinics provides some basic information and is a good place to start.
The MCW International Travelers Clinic has up-to-date info on diseases as well as on more mundane travel hazards such as car accidents.
The Safer Sex Page, compiled by the UCSF, is full of useful safe-sex information.
The American College of Emergency Physicians has put together a simple Travelers' First Aid Kit.
The Traveller's Medical & Vaccination Centre, who verify Lonely Planet's health info, have useful material for Australian and New Zealand travellers heading overseas.
So what are your chances of coming home in a box? Get the lowdown at Passport to Death - death rates for plane travel, motor travel, disease, kidnapping and terrorism.

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.
Language Connect has daily lessons in French, Italian, Spanish and German.
International Language Development has good lessons in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish but you only get the first one free.

What You Need to Know to Hook Up Your Modem Worldwide tells you everything you need to know about being a hit-and-run worldwide cyber-surfer.
"A geek, a digital camera and a laptop go around the world..." Travelog.net has great advice on how it really happens.
Products and information relating to modems, international adapters and mobile computing generally can be found at the Road Warrior International site.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, they're all here at International Dialing Codes.
Mobilis - free monthly online magazine of mobile computing.
A user-friendly guide, with click on map, to all cyber cafés across the globe can be found at Netcafeguide.
The The Cyber Café Guide is okay for the UK but kind of loses it further afield.