Travel Blogs:

http://www.travelblog.org/ – This site is a free, online travel diary. Create your own travel journal where you can upload your photos from anywhere in the world. Keep your friends and family informed of new additions to your diary by adding their email addresses to your automatic mailing list. Create your own photo gallery and showcase your best photos, complete with slideshows.

http://www.travelpod.com/ - TravelPod has been around since 1997. In fact, TravelPod was the first web site to offer travel blog hosting on the Web! TravelPod offers a wide variety of options to fit every need you may have. You can allow travelogues to be password protected or enable each new entry to be emailed to hundreds of your contacts.

Local Weather:

Weather.Yahoo.com – Yahoo provides detailed weather information with up to 10 days forecast, including humidity, wind, sunrise and sunset times, maps etc...

http://www.intellicast.com/ – This is also another great weather forecast website with up to 10 days forecast. You can even monitor approaching storms with their Storm Watch feature.

Local Time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/ – Here you’ll find the best and most comprehensive local time website, which also includes other useful information such as dialing country and city codes.

Currency Conversion:

www.XE.com/ucc/ - The Universal Currency Converter - easily convert any currencies.

www.Oanda.com/convert/classic - Another similar tool, which lets you see historical conversion data.