Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / December 2003

'UK tops world league for surgery costs'
By Nicholas Timmins in London
Financial Times
Published: December 28 2003 21:57

Planning a week trip to Rome in April.  Am interested in opinions on
the district or area of Rome that would be the most practical and / or
efficient for sight seeing, relaxing, getting around (foot, bus,
metro) and eating.  For example, which side of the river - Vatican

I'm going to London soon and from what I can tell on the web, I can get a
weekly pass for the tube and buses that will cost 19.60 GBP and allow me to
travel in zones 1 & 2.
In my city, if I have a pass for zones 1 & 2, then decide that I want to go

In Paris
We just finished.
Caviar
Foie gras de canard

So now it is a different story. Las Vegas remains in it, Air
France and Paris have retreated.
Earl
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Prague cuisine - heaven!
The traditional Czech cuisine is really tasteful but not very healthy.
The most traditional is "knedlo, vepro, zelo" - pork with dumplings
and sauerkraut. Very delicate taste has "svícková" the cream sauce

We will be leaving shortly for Budapest and if someone would be able to
tell me the following, it would be appreciated.
In the Gellert Baths, is it appropriate to tip the locker attendents,
and if so, how much?

Maybe terrorists are like WMDs, they
disappear when you start looking for them.
Earl
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I returned on November 3, 2004 from 10 days driving around Spain and was very
favorably impressed by what I saw.  It was my first trip to Spain and I was
pleasantly surprised to find it much more modern and attractive than I expected.
I was even more impressed to find how much more ...

All European cities are becoming car-free and they are desperately
trying to get rid of them. London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, French and German cities such as Strasbourg,
Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, and Hamburg, Milan, Rome ...

Can anyone enlighten me on following:-
I will be coming from Heathrow on Piccadilly line
and need to transfer to Central line.
I look at tube map and see this is available at Holborn

My husband and I are planning to go to Paris next Thanksgiving.  We'd
like to stay somewhere that's very quaint and nice and French,
somewhere close to popular sites (Left Bank?).  We don't mind spending
a little money but we're trying not to be outrageous about it.  Maybe

The Journal du Dimanche had an excellent article today on the annulation
of the AF flights by Michel Deléan, page 7.  Unfortunately this article
is not available on the internet.
One important point raised by a unnamed "haut responsable policier" is

We are considering a visit to the Auvergne for next year and would
appreciate any comments on travel and residence there.  The community of Le
Puy en Velay particularly interests us for the photos of unusual volcanic
formations and structures thereon. Clermont Ferrand sounds like an