Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / April 2006

We are traveling across to france for a few days...
Whats the best place to visit re Word War One.
I belive there is some site were you can still see the layout of the
trenches.

New anti-corporate anti-lying two faced U.S. media monopolies--the
JOKE:
JOKE:
What do you get when you cross a CNN anchor person with a megaton of

I'm going to travel Germany with an open GSM phone.
I'm looking for local prepaid SIM card which will enable:
1. Local and international calls and SMS
2. Free incoming calls & SMSs

Has anybody used this company? Are they reliable please?
Available from http://www.sim4travel.com/

Went to an ATM yesterday - Cathy asked me
to help check her balance - so I pushed her over!

I am considering going to Sicily. Can anyone answer these questions:
1. In the cities and countryside is there any violent crime I should
know about? I mean compared to Europe in general.
2. Are there snakes?

A new turn in traveling "sardine class".
If you have the impression that the airline industry
would like to reconfigurate the human form to fit
its economic "needs" you are right.

More reason to come to France.  Actually its quality
varies all over the map.  The "pâté" actually has some
pork liver in it, the pure is "bloc". If what you are
served is homogeneous in appearance it is not pure foie gras.

The guy I am traveling with suddenly has a desire to take along a hiking
staff. There is no way he is going to be able to take it on the plane in the
overhead bin, so I am looking for a shop in Madrid or Seville where he can
buy one. Maybe he can mail it back when the trip is ...

Contrary to the belief of some, airlines are not required to compensate
passengers for "damages" when flights are delayed or canceled.
Compensation is required by law only when you are "bumped" from a
flight that is oversold. Airlines almost always refuse to pay

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Upon arriving at the airport, I plan to buy a ticket on the AVE train to
Sevilla. There are different ways to get from the airport to the Atocha
train station: metro, taxi, and now something called Aerocity Airport
shuttle. The metro would be cheapest, but would it take a long ...

Heathrow's expansion is just two years from completion. Mark Rowe takes
a peek at this controversial, yet magnificent project
Published: 23 April 2006
Between 4am and 5am on 30 March 2008, a British Airways flight,

Hello group
We have never been to Italy before and are looking to go there this
summer.  We are torn between a beach holiday and a lake/mountain
holiday.

Myself and my girlfriend are trying to plan a trip for the first 3
weeks in August this year. However, we can't make up our minds between
Norway and Iceland. What do people think? Are the two comparable? Any
obvious advantages/disadvantages to either? Both seem to offer things