New: PDF travel guides for free

We have just uploaded a new section to replace the old shop. We call it Take-away and you can use it to download complete guides in PDF format. Print them out and take them with you or put them in you PDA or phone - whatever you use to read PDFs.
The good news is: the PDF's are completely free and licensed under our CC-license. So go ahead: they are al yours.

The PDF's leave some space open for notes and we hope that you will use the space to jot down things you find wrong or missing and add those things as soon as you are back online.

The guides we offer now are:

Amsterdam Pretty complete and up to date Barcelona Good, but needs some updating. Berlin Lots of info, some outdated. Brussels Good, but needs some updating. Budapest Good, but needs some updating. Cairo Good, but needs some updating. Florence Okay, but needs some updating. Hong Kong Okay, but needs some updating. Lisbon Okay, but needs some updating. Los Angeles Lots of info. Madrid Okay, but needs some updating. New York Not very good, needs complete overhaul. Paris Good, but needs some updating. Prague Good, but needs some updating. Rio de Janiero Okay, but needs some updating. Rome Good, but needs some updating. Singapore Good, but needs some updating. Sydney Not our best guide, so give us a hand! Tokyo Lots of info but may need update. Venice Pretty nice, we think. Vienna Okay, but needs some updating.

Belgium Pretty good Kazakhstan Surprise destination! Kenya Rather complete, but some parts may need updating Morocco Quite complete, but help us make it better Madagascar Surprise destination! Netherlands A biggie, more than 1 MB of info on this small country. Norway Good but with some white spots Russia Russia is big - we try to keep up. Switzerland Good on the cities, weak on countryside Thailand Quite good, we think.

We know there are many more excellent guides on World66 and we will continue to add new guides to the list. Please let us know which new ones you would like us to add and we can start with those.

The Take-away page also contains a link to the XHTML guide, you can use to browse World66 on you phone. For most visitors of the site this mobile version of the World66 travel guide is new - but as a follower of our blog you already new this service.

About us

We have updated some of the texts in the about section. We felt the old texts didn't make clear what we are about and why we run world66. It all sounded too much like we were just another business on the internet, while in fact we run an amazing open content project. Every time I go through the recent changes on world66 the whole thing amazes me: travelers on all continents are adding stuff about where they've been and what they've done and they are making world66 what it is: the most complete open content travel guide online.

At the same time we are making important changes to the site. You may have noticed that there is no longer a shop-tab on the site. You can still reach the old shop if you want, but that's also temporary. We are getting rid of it completely and will be replacing it by something better. A lot better because everything in it will be free.

So is this yet another "we're not evil company". I guess it is. But with a difference. We're no billionaires, either.