Travel Forum / Destinations / Europe / June 2006

Finland's trailblazing path for women
By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News
Finland's President Tarja Halonen has been elected for a second term

In September this year I will be spending 4 weeks travelling around
Turkey in a rent-a-car. I will be picking the car up at the airport in
Istanbul and dropping it back at the same place. After picking up the
car I want to drive down to the Gallipoli Peninsula on the European

It has been recently opened to the public Villa romana del Virgigno
located in Montelupo Fiorentino (province of Florence).
It represents an extraordinary example of rustic villa of republica
time during the Roman Empire. The main body of this villa (it

    Are now free of cars and always will be.

I don't know if things have changed in the group in this regard, or if
I have simply noticed it more of late -- the fact that a number of
contributors do not snip unnecessary material when they respond to a
post.

    Okay. I give up. I apologize for my rantings. Maybe I took
somebody's book way too seriously and I was wrong about Europeans
hating Americans. My apologies.

    Europeans, especially the French, hate Americans. According to a
book by Jeremy Rifkin. And Europeans hate individual freedom, property
rights, etc.

    I predict that European cities will be free of cars within fifteen
years. Europeans don't drive anyway.

I fell asleep last night thinking of our stay in San Marino. We walked
the narrow streets and looked out at the lights of the houses way down
below. How different it is a night compared to the daytime with all
the school kids running around.

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Since I challenged him to translate my website in engllish he is very
quiet!!!! A too big job for him? Or was it only promissing a lot of
air?
http://,embers.lycos.nl/joson2004/

I am going to pick some friends who are arriving in the early afternoon at
Heathrow Terminal 4 next month.
I have heard some people say that picking arrivals up is a 'nightmare' by
car.  Is this true?

Can anyone tell me if my family and I stay in Vienna to see the
Lippizon stallions on Sept. 17 and don't leave until 1:00p,m that day
to drive to Salzburg, will we have enough time in the
Salzbug/Munich/Garmische area in to see anything if we plan on leaving

I just returned from Taoramina. It's true what is commonly said - the
most beautiful place in the world. The town is set on a mountain about
600 feet high above the sea. Then you have mountains abouve and a
10,000 foot smoldering volcano towering over everything. Really

Hello --
    Has anyone ever taken the drive down the coast from Pisa to Rome? Down
Route 1 -- any thoughts great places to stop, etc?