Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / August 2003

I'm new to this message group and was wondering if you could help some
friends and me. We've managed to organise a day trip to Brussels on
the 6th of September by EuroStar and was wondering what are the
essential sights, activites and eateries that are not to be missed in

Does any one know anything about this hotel?
Grand Hotel Jeanne d'Arc, 3 rue de Jarente
thanks

Hi, anyone stayed in  this hotel
HOTEL  DU PETIT LOUVRE
opinions,anyone stayed in a good hotel 2 stars in Paris,
Thanks for help

I'll be in London in a couple of weeks, and have been reading up on
pubs. I've noticed several serve Indian or Thai food -- do these pubs
also serve typical pub grub, or is this getting harder to find?
I'd also appreciate any pub recommendations in the Mayfair area, and

I would be interested in anyone's experiences with vacations arranged
through BJ's, the wholesale club.  Worth pursuing?

Hello to all,
I intend to travel across England during my 20days leave during
october this year by train. I have also listed out the places I intend
to visit during this time.

We are going to Lisbon for a week in September and we wonder if we can
easily find a place, where one can download pictures from digital camera
(Canon G3) to a CD? I would guess internet caffes should provide this
service as enywhere else in the World, but are they easy to find ...

Kind of basic query here: Can anyone recommend a reasonably cheap, reputable
supplier of travel insurance in the UK for a 3-4 month trip to Sweden,
Finland, Russia and then various Baltic and Eastern European countries?
Thanks

My wife is thinking about taking a job in London working for the Dept
of the Navy. Does anyone know or know where I can find information on
the tax liablity. What gov. will collect and how much,?
thanks.

My wife and I are planning a two night stay in Paris and  neither one
of us speak French. What are the difficulties we can expect to
encounter. Even though I find foriegn languages difficult I will
attempt to learn some basics because I know how irritating  it is to

I am travelling round the continent in September, visiting a few
cities.
Whenever I visit a city abroad I like to climb any kind of
observation/communication/church towers I can find (climb on the

I am travelling to Italy for about 10 days, will be taking a train
from Venice to Rome and wanted to know if it is safe to reach termini
by the last ES train which reaches termini at about 11:30 pm or should
I instead go for the overnight train which reaches termini at 7 am the

Does anyone know if it's safe to use credit cards in Italy? Also, are
travelers cheques easy to cash?
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Hmmm... been looking at a few hotels for an upcoming trip and came
across one which listed as having the usual ameneties in their hotel
rooms such as tv, phone, etc. and a safe on their website. However,
after enquiring with the hotel, I was told that the safe costs extra

I recently took a trip to Munich and Vienna, and I was wondering if I could get
your opinions on some things. We took Lufthansa airlines to Frankfurt and then
we got the connecting flight to Munich from there. My problem was that on the
plane from Newark to Frankfurt, I was terribly ...