Contemplating travel abroad – maybe not next week, or even next month – but you fancy going someplace on the world map sometime – somewhere new and exotic – or maybe you’d rather let your mind idle across the map, across another continent, lingering on bizarre place names while you savour the excitement from a safe distance?

Then log on to any number of web sites for a whirlwind tour, complete with flags of all nations, photos, travel tips and statistics of every kind: geographic, demographic, economic, historical, political. Plan your trip by creating your own map online. Enhance your plans with a world time zone map, or one of daylight saving zones worldwide, or even a map indicating night and day around the world at any given time. You can detail your destinations with street and road maps of the world’s cities. Potential sailors can peruse a topographical layout of the world’s rivers and streams, climbers ponder mountain ranges, dreamers enjoy a maze of latitudes and longitudes.

Ready to go? Your trip can be booked on the same sites that provide your maps – reserve your flights, rail tickets, cruises, hotel rooms, holiday cottages and car rentals. Shop for all your travel needs online – luggage, shoes, watches, jet-lag pills – or even finance your trip with a personal loan!

Mapping your travel or travelling your world map, have fun!