Skip the cybercafe – International travel tip

by Gadling Staff on

If you chose to use a cybercafe in India, be prepared to hand over your passport and give your home address — some cybercafes will even fingerprint you!

Criminals in India have abused cybercafe computers, prompting strict regulations for India’s cybercafes. The extra layer of red tape is just not worth the trouble — besides, many cybercafe computers are infected with viruses, and that’s NOT the kind of souvenir you want to send home to friends and family.

Instead, consider bringing your own computer and using your hotel’s Internet access. Alternatively, just unplug!

Find an internet cafe anywhere in the world

by Iva Skoch on

As I was searching for an internet cafe in London this week, I thought it would be really helpful to have a site that lists them all and allows you to search based on your location. And guess what. Of course, that exact site already exists.

Cybercafes.com contains a database of over 4000 internet cafes in 141 countries. So, if you, like me are staying in the Embankment area of London and are looking for a place to log in, you will find there is easyInternetcafe at Strand 54. Which is, incidentally, where I am right now.

I must say, though, at £2 ($4) an hour, it is a little overpriced. You can find places nearby that charge only £.5 per hour, although arguable not as easy to use and consistent as easyInternet.

Photo of the Day (1/24/07)

by Adrienne Wilson on


When I look at this picture I do not think about an establishment that will allow me to connect with close family and friends during my travels abroad. I do not think about updating my Myspace page with cool shots from the bazaar taken the day before for all my pals to sit green with envy over. Instead I wonder why the little naked baby has a laptop drawn over it in a nice pink colored paint or why the dogs and cats in the poster above wear shades. The baby makes me think of episodes of NBC’s To Catch a Predator and I imagine the animals are concealing blind rolling eyes. Perhaps I need my head checked, but what does it mean and isn’t funny how a picture, a painting and a poster can translate different things in different languages? Surely I am not the only one who thinks so???

Anyhow, major kudos to cfarivar for uploading this shot of the Faraj Internet Cafe located in Rabat, Morocco into the Gadling Flickr pool. It gave me something to think about today.